Viridian Deep · Book 1

Child of Light

Published
1 January 2021
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780593357385
Type
novel
Cover of Child of Light

About this book

Child of Light opens Terry Brooks's Viridian Deep young adult fantasy series, published in 2021 at 384 pages. It's followed by Daughter of Darkness, the second of three books.

Key facts about Child of Light

Child of Light is a novel by Terry Brooks. Readers have had it since 2021. It runs to 384 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Child of Light. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593357385 to find the main one.

Child of Light is book 1 of 3 in the Viridian Deep series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

Additionally, Terry Brooks writes The Original Shannara Trilogy, The Magic Kingdom of Landover and The Heritage of Shannara, plus 9 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy, fantasy and urban fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Brona is the latest published Terry Brooks book on file, from 25 August 2026.

About Terry Brooks

Terry Brooks is one of modern fantasy's most commercially important authors, best known for The Sword of Shannara (1977), which became the first work of fantasy fiction to appear on the New York Times bestseller list and proved, alongside Tolkien's continuing popularity, that there was a mass commercial audience for epic fantasy. See every Terry Brooks book in order.

Its place in Viridian Deep

Child of Light is book 1 in the Viridian Deep series. It is followed by Daughter of Darkness. See the full Viridian Deep reading order.

Terry Brooks's Viridian Deep trilogy is a young-adult fantasy separate from both Shannara and Landover, following Auris Afton Grieg, a girl who escapes a Goblin prison with no memory of her past and discovers she's connected to Viridian Deep, a hidden magical realm of the Fae. Child of Light introduces Auris's fight to reclaim her identity and protect her young adopted sister, Char, from the Goblin forces hunting them both, while Daughter of Darkness deepens the threat as darker Fae politics and enemies close in…

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