The Serpent Sea
core novel 2012 The Books of the Raksura
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.09 (8,895 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781597803328 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Serpent Sea is the second novel in The Books of the Raksura series, continuing directly from The Cloud Roads. Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has settled into the Indigo Cloud court as consort to the sister queen Jade, and the court travels by flying ship in search of a new home after the losses of the first book. When they reach Indigo Cloud's ancestral home, a colony built within an immense tree, they discover the tree is dying from a blight at its core and find signs that intruders have stolen the heartstone needed to heal it. Moon joins a group of hunters sent across the Serpent Sea to recover the heartstone, a journey into unfamiliar and dangerous territory that tests the fragile new court's ability to survive.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Books of the Raksura
- Series: The Books of the Raksura core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Martha Wells
Notes
- From the series record (The Books of the Raksura): The five-novel main sequence of the Raksura series.
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 Books of the Raksura: position 2 of 5: previous The Cloud Roads (2011) · next The Siren Depths (2012)
Sources
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