The Copper Gauntlet
core novel 2015 Magisterium
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.11 (41,520 ratings, collected 2026-08-21) |
| Page count | 264 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780804122658 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Call suspects his father, Alastair, is trying to destroy him and Havoc, so he returns reluctantly to the Magisterium for his second year of training alongside Aaron and Tamara. The group learns of an attack on a dangerous weapon called the Alkahest, capable of harming Makars, and comes to believe that the sorcerer Alastair is secretly pursuing it in order to strike at Call. As Call, Aaron, Tamara and their allies Jasper and Alex Strike track Alastair across both magical and mundane locations, they uncover letters and clues connected to the deceased Devoured mage Constantine Madden, whose old tomb holds secrets about soul magic. Call must decide how far to trust his father while confronting the possibility that the plans reach further, and darker, than a single missing weapon.
Where it sits
- Universe: Magisterium
- Series: Magisterium core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Holly Black
- Author: Cassandra Clare
Notes
- From the series record (Magisterium): A complete five-book middle-grade series co-written by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, both already credited elsewhere in this canon (Folk of the Air/Spiderwick and the Shadowhunter Chronicles respectively) for different, unrelated work; no author-record duplication involved.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Magisterium: position 2 of 5: previous The Iron Trial (2014) · next The Bronze Key (2016)
Sources
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