The Red Queen
core novel 2015 The Obernewtyn Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.75 (2,404 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| Page count | 1120 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780670076406 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
In the final volume of the Obernewtyn Chronicles, twenty-eight years after the first, Elspeth Gordie reaches the lands of the Red Queen, mother of the girl Dragon, at last facing the end of the quest that has shaped her life since childhood: to find and disable the Beforetime weaponmachines before they can bring about a second Great White. Across the sea she finds a society unlike the Land and a ruler whose fate is bound to Obernewtyn's, and the threads of the earlier books, Rushton and the Misfits, the Herder Faction, Ariel and Kasanda's long-hidden signs, are drawn together for the ending. The book closes a series that had become one of the defining works of Australian young-adult fiction.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Obernewtyn Chronicles
- Series: The Obernewtyn Chronicles core; position 7 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Isobelle Carmody
Notes
- From the series record (The Obernewtyn Chronicles): Isobelle Carmody's seven-book young-adult saga (1987-2015) of Elspeth Gordie, a telepathic Misfit in the post-apocalyptic Land, and the secret community of Misfits at the mountain compound of Obernewtyn. Registered in its Australian seven-volume form; North American and UK editions split The Stone Key (adding Wavesong) and The Sending (adding The Waking Dragon).
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 Obernewtyn Chronicles: position 7 of 7: previous The Sending (2011)
Sources
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