The House of Sacrifice
core novel 2019 Empires of Dust
Record
| First published | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.79 (610 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 480 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780008204129 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
The House of Sacrifice concludes the Empires of Dust trilogy, following the violent aftermath of Marith Altrersyr's rise to kingship depicted in The Tower of Living and Dying. As the consequences of Marith's reign and the earlier fall of the Sekemleth Empire continue to unfold, the trilogy's surviving major characters are pushed toward a final reckoning with the empire, the throne and the personal costs of the bloodshed that brought them there. The novel maintains the grimdark tone and shifting points of view established across the earlier two books as it closes out the trilogy's central arc around power, violence and the human cost of empire.
Where it sits
- Universe: Empires of Dust
- Series: Empires of Dust core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Anna Smith Spark
Notes
- From the series record (Empires of Dust): Completed trilogy; all 3 published by HarperVoyager (UK).
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 Empires of Dust: position 3 of 3: previous The Tower of Living and Dying (2018)
Sources
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