The Bone Ship's Wake
core novel 2021 The Tide Child Trilogy
Record
| First published | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.47 (5,702 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780356511863 |
Synopsis
The Bone Ship's Wake, the third and final novel in the Tide Child trilogy, opens with Joron Twiner having lost his Shipwife and now commanding a black fleet from the deck of the Tide Child, driven primarily by grief and a desire for vengeance against the Hundred Isles. His pursuit of that revenge is complicated on several fronts: he is afflicted with Keyshan's Rot, a wasting illness steadily consuming his body and limiting how much time he has left, and his fleet is shrinking through attrition even as he tries to keep waging war. He is also concealing a prophecy claiming that he and an avian sorcerer known as the Windseer are together fated to destroy the world, a fate he wants no part of.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Tide Child Trilogy
- Series: The Tide Child Trilogy core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: RJ Barker
Notes
- From the series record (The Tide Child Trilogy): New author record. A completed grimdark nautical fantasy trilogy (the 'Tide Child' bone-ships crew), per Carlos's own named grimdark theme. The Bone Ships WON the 2020 British Fantasy Award's Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel -- a clean, independently sourced win (Wikipedia's own Tide Child trilogy page, corroborated by the book's own current cover copy, 'Winner of the Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel'), not merely a nomination.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Tide Child Trilogy: position 3 of 3: previous Call of the Bone Ships (2020)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Tide Child trilogy
- https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rj-barker/the-bone-ships-wake/9780316488051/
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