Tress of the Emerald Sea
core novel 2023 Cosmere
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.30 (332,555 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 443 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250899651 |
Synopsis
Tress of the Emerald Sea is a Cosmere fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson, the first of his Kickstarter Secret Projects, set on Lumar, a world with twelve moons that each rain down spores of a different color, forming seas that ships sail using the spores' strange properties. Tress, a quiet young woman on an isolated island called the Rock, spends her days collecting cups left by passing sailors and harbors feelings for Charlie, the local duke's son. When Charlie is sent away to a royal marriage and fails to return, Tress learns he has been taken captive by a sorceress in the region known as the Midnight Sea. Determined to rescue him, Tress leaves her sheltered life, joining a pirate crew and setting out across waters where the many-colored spores hide unpredictable, often deadly forces.
Where it sits
- Universe: Cosmere
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Brandon Sanderson
Notes
- Secret Project #1 (Kickstarter Jan 2023; trade April 2023).
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 Cosmere (standalone work): position 25 of 29: previous The Lost Metal (2022) · next Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (2023)
Sources
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