The Tower of Ravens
core novel 2004 The Witches of Eileanan
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.01 (3,717 ratings, collected 2026-10-11) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780857988669 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
One-Horn's daughter is not like the others of her kind. Born of a human father among the satyricorn, a ferocious race of horned faerie, she lacks the horns so prized by her people and is scorned even by her own mother, and a satyricorn without a horn will in the end be killed for it. Her only chance of escape is to capture one of the legendary winged horses and ride it to freedom. So begins a journey of danger, death, love and betrayal that gives her a new name, Rhiannon, the rider no one can catch. Travelling with a group of apprentice witches, among them Lewen, through a land where the dead walk and ghosts haunt the living, she senses what her human companions cannot: dark forces that endanger all of Eileanan. But can they trust the word of a wild and fierce half-human girl?
Where it sits
- Universe: The Witches of Eileanan
- Series: Rhiannon's Ride core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Kate Forsyth
Notes
- From the series record (Rhiannon's Ride): Kate Forsyth's return to Eileanan, some twenty-five years after The Witches of Eileanan: Rhiannon, a half-human satyricorn girl who escapes her herd on a winged horse, and the apprentice-witch Lewen, amid necromancy and court intrigue under the rule of Lachlan the Winged.
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 Rhiannon's Ride: position 1 of 3: next The Shining City (2005)
- Internal chronology, within The Witches of Eileanan: position 2 of 9: previous Dragonclaw (1997) · next The Pool of Two Moons (1998)
Sources
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