The Warrior Moon
core novel 2021 Their Bright Ascendency
Record
| First published | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.12 (727 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765392596 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
The Warrior Moon, concluding K Arsenault Rivera's Their Bright Ascendency trilogy, follows Barsalai Shefali, a renowned Qorin warrior, and O-Shizuka, a divine warrior empress, as they face their greatest test yet after years spent fighting demon armies, building reputations as legendary warriors, and ruling an empire together. Raised together from birth, separated for years after their wedding, and reunited amid a poisonous invasion threatening their people, the two women now move toward fulfilling a prophecy generations in the making, one that Shefali knows carries a personal cost she has kept from Shizuka since the events of the previous book. With their empire's future and their own fates intertwined, Shefali and Shizuka must decide how much of the prophecy they are willing to accept, and how much they are willing to fight to change.
Where it sits
- Universe: Their Bright Ascendency
- Series: Their Bright Ascendency core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: K Arsenault Rivera
Notes
- From the series record (Their Bright Ascendency): An epic fantasy trilogy drawing on East Asian and Mongolian-inspired settings, told through letters between two women warriors bound by fate and a shared destiny to fight the returning Traitorous Son.
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 Their Bright Ascendency: position 3 of 3: previous The Phoenix Empress (2018)
Sources
- Their Bright Ascendency series bibliography (specialised series-tracking site)
- https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/the-warrior-moon
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