The Magpie and the Wolf
#6453.80 adjusted 3.85 for sample size in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 2 books Status Complete 2025–2026 Reading commitment Low Maggie Rapier Last reviewed 2026-08-19
Overview
The Magpie and the Wolf is Maggie Rapier's young-adult romantasy duology opening with Soulgazer (2025), which follows a young woman with a rare, forbidden magical gift who becomes entangled with a dangerous wolf-shifter as political and supernatural threats close in around them both. The second book, Wolftamer, is scheduled for 2026 and has not yet been published, so the duology's overall arc remains open at this stage. As a recent entrant to the crowded young-adult romantasy market, the series pairs a slow-burn romance between its two leads with a wider magical conspiracy plot introduced across Soulgazer's chapters, following the genre's now-familiar pattern of building a self-contained love story inside a larger, still-unresolved fantasy conflict that the concluding volume is expected to close out.
Romantasy · For YA
Core Canon: Reading Order (2 works) counts toward ranking
The Magpie and the Wolf Maggie Rapier
| Work | Year | Internal chron. | Canon | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Soulgazer | 2025 | 1 | core | 3.80 (1,984 ratings) |
 | Wolftamer; The Magpie and the Wolf Duology #2, concluding the duology begun with Soulgazer. Published 2026-08-25. | 2026 | N/A | core | 3.76 (94 ratings) |
Complete 2-book duology; Soulgazer (2025) and Wolftamer (2026).
Quick answers
- How many books are in The Magpie and the Wolf? The Magpie and the Wolf's Core Canon is 2 books.
- What is the reading order for The Magpie and the Wolf? Publication order, starting with Soulgazer. Full list and years in the Core Canon table above.
- Is The Magpie and the Wolf finished? Complete (2025–2026).
- How much reading does The Magpie and the Wolf take? Low reading commitment (estimated from 2 Core Canon books · ~988 pages).
- How is The Magpie and the Wolf ranked? #645 in this site's official ranking, based on 2,078 reader ratings across 2 Core Canon books. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #645?
Ranked #645 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 3.80 across 2 core books.
- A smaller readership (2,078 ratings), so the score carries less weight of numbers.
- Remarkably consistent across the whole series: all 2 rated core books rate within 0.04 of each other.
- 0.04 behind #644, Winter Rose.
- Below the top-10 average of 4.45.
Why explore this universe?
Rated · 2 books · Complete · 2k ratings · Ranks #645 overall
Good choice if you want a quick, low-commitment romantasy universe that's already finished, so there's no wait for the next book.
Reading order
Publication order (2 Core Canon books)
- Soulgazer (2025)
- Wolftamer (2026)
Documented internal/story order: 1 of 2 Core Canon books
- Soulgazer (2025)
Internal chronology is documented for 1 of 2 Core Canon books; the remaining 1 are not yet mapped onto the same ordinal scale.
Awards (verified)
- No awards found for this universe.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 3.80 across 2,078 ratings on 2 Core Canon books. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: Admit The Magpie and the Wolf (Maggie Rapier) accepted 2026-08-19
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
Last reviewed: 2026-08-20
Rule: Registered as a single-author duology, Core Canon. Only the first book is recorded; the unpublished second volume is not listed as a book in this canon.