The Isles of the Gods
core novel 2023 The Isles of the Gods
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.88 (7,114 ratings, collected 2026-10-25) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593479285 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Selly has salt water in her veins. When her father leaves her high and dry in the port of Kirkpool, she has no intention of riding out the winter on land while he sails to adventure in the north seas. Then the disruptive arrival of a spoiled young man ruins her plans: he is Prince Leander of Alinor, and he needs to cross the Crescent Sea without detection so that he can complete a ritual on the sacred Isles of the Gods, and he derails her ship's course to get there. Selly has no desire to escort a spoiled prince anywhere, but as Alinor and Mellacea edge towards war, the zealot Laskia sets out to kill the prince, in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse told by Selly, Leander, Laskia and two other teens.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Isles of the Gods
- Series: The Isles of the Gods core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Amie Kaufman
Awards (verified)
- Mythopoeic Award (Young Adult Literature), 2025: finalist; The duology was the finalist.
Notes
- From the series record (The Isles of the Gods): Selly, Prince Leander and the war of the gods.
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 The Isles of the Gods: position 1 of 2: next The Heart of the World (2024)
Sources
- Penguin Random House (series page)
- Unseen Library (review)
- Publishers Weekly (review with edition details)
- Knopf (publisher description, via library catalogue)
- The Nerd Daily (review with publisher synopsis)
- Read Plus (review)
- Mythopoeic Society (2025 finalists press release)
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