The Ninth Rain
core novel 2017 The Winnowing Flame Trilogy
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (10,782 ratings, collected 2026-08-21) |
| Page count | 544 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781472235176 |
Synopsis
The Ninth Rain opens in a world where the once-glittering city of Ebora has fallen into ruin, its immortal people dwindling and its streets patrolled by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless, an Eboran who has turned his back on his dying homeland, takes work escorting the eccentric human explorer Lady Vincenza "Vintage" de Grazon on her expeditions to recover ancient artefacts. Their path crosses that of Noon, a fugitive fire-witch fleeing the order that has hunted people of her kind. As the three travel together investigating relics of a lost civilization, they are drawn deeper into a conspiracy tied to the coming return of the Jure'lia, an ancient enemy whose earlier invasion devastated Ebora generations before, and whose reappearance threatens to unravel the fragile peace of the present-day world.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Winnowing Flame Trilogy
- Series: The Winnowing Flame Trilogy core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jen Williams
Awards (verified)
- British Fantasy Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2018: won
Notes
- From the series record (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy): Complete trilogy; the first two volumes each won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
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 Winnowing Flame Trilogy: position 1 of 3: next The Bitter Twins (2018)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen_Williams
- https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Jen-Williams/The-Ninth-Rain.html
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