The Days of the Shadow
core novel 2002 Saga of the Borderlands
Record
| Original title | Los días de la sombra |
|---|---|
| First published | 2002 |
| Original language |  ES |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.31 (2,127 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9789870416784 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Picking up several years after the events of the first book, this second volume of the trilogy finds the continent in an uneasy peace: Cucub and Kuy-Kuyen now have children, and the sorcerer Kupuka has taken on Piukeman as a pupil in magic. The world remains divided between the Isolated Land ruled by Bor and Zabralkan, the Fertile Lands under Lord Hoh-Quiu, and other realms bound only loosely together, while schemers such as Drimus and Molitzmos work against them from within. Into this fragile balance comes the Shadow, an emissary of Death herself, moving across the continent and drawing a young girl named Wilkilen into her path. As a renewed invasion gathers strength beyond the sea, the peoples of the Fertile Lands must contend with both this external threat and the internal conspiracies that Death's presence stirs among them.
Where it sits
- Universe: Saga of the Borderlands
- Series: Saga of the Borderlands core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Liliana Bodoc
Notes
- From the series record (Saga of the Borderlands): Core Canon: the complete trilogy, originally published in Spanish as La Saga de los Confines. The first volume was published in English translation (Atlantic Books, 2013) as The Days of the Deer; an independently confirmed English translation date for the second and third volumes could not be established and is left unrecorded rather than guessed.
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 Saga of the Borderlands: position 2 of 3: previous The Days of the Deer (2000) · next The Days of the Fire (2004)
Sources
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