Eden Moore
#6743.80 adjusted 3.83 for sample size in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 3 books Status Complete 2003–2007 Reading commitment Medium Cherie Priest Last reviewed 2026-10-18
Overview
Cherie Priest's debut trilogy (2003-2007) gives Southern Gothic an urban, modern setting in and around Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Priest lived for twelve years. Eden Moore, orphaned at birth and raised on Signal Mountain by her aunt, has always seen the dead: three ghostly women watch over her, bound to protect her, while a living enemy believes she is destined to follow her wicked great-grandfather, a magician with the power to curse the living and raise the dead. Across three stand-alone books the reluctant medium is drawn from family secrets in Georgia and Florida to the haunted Civil War battlefield of Chickamauga and finally to a drowned Chattanooga where an army of the long-dead rises from the flooding Tennessee River. Its first book won the inaugural Lulu Blooker Prize for fiction.
Dark fantasy, Urban fantasy · For Adult
Core Canon: Reading Order (3 works) counts toward ranking
Eden Moore Cherie Priest
| Work | Year | Internal chron. | Canon | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Four and Twenty Blackbirds; First published by a small press in 2003; the Tor edition of October 2005, whose ISBN is recorded, brought it to a wide readership. | 2003 | 1 | core | 3.70 (2,415 ratings) |
 | Wings to the Kingdom | 2006 | 2 | core | 3.93 (927 ratings) |
 | Not Flesh Nor Feathers | 2007 | 3 | core | 3.94 (820 ratings) |
Cherie Priest's Southern Gothic trilogy of the reluctant medium Eden Moore, each book a stand-alone sequel to the last.
Quick answers
- How many books are in Eden Moore? Eden Moore's Core Canon is 3 books.
- What is the reading order for Eden Moore? Publication order, starting with Four and Twenty Blackbirds. Full list and years in the Core Canon table above.
- Is Eden Moore finished? Complete (2003–2007).
- How much reading does Eden Moore take? Medium reading commitment (estimated from 3 Core Canon books).
- How is Eden Moore ranked? #674 in this site's official ranking, based on 4,162 reader ratings across 3 Core Canon books. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #674?
Ranked #674 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 3.80 across 3 core books.
- A smaller readership (4,162 ratings), so the score carries less weight of numbers.
- 0.02 behind #673, The Wizard Knight.
- Below the top-10 average of 4.45.
Why explore this universe?
Rated · 3 books · Complete · 4k ratings · Ranks #674 overall
Good choice if you want a moderate-length dark fantasy universe that's already finished, so there's no wait for the next book.
Reading order
Publication order (3 Core Canon books)
- Four and Twenty Blackbirds (2003)
- Wings to the Kingdom (2006)
- Not Flesh Nor Feathers (2007)
Documented internal/story chronology is recorded for every Core Canon book here, and matches publication order exactly, with no divergence to show separately.
Awards (verified)
- Lulu Blooker Prize (Fiction), 2006: won: Four and Twenty Blackbirds; First winner in the fiction category, per the author's encyclopedic entry.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 3.80 across 4,162 ratings on 3 Core Canon books. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: Canon extension: Eden Moore (Cherie Priest) accepted 2026-10-18
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
- Eden Moore series listing (OverDrive) Tier 2
- Wikipedia Tier 2
Last reviewed: 2026-10-18
Rule: Core Canon = Four and Twenty Blackbirds (2003; Tor 2005), Wings to the Kingdom (2006) and Not Flesh Nor Feathers (2007), complete trilogy.