The Darkling Child
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780356502212
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Darkling Child sits between The High Druid's Blade and The Sorcerer's Daughter in the Defenders of Shannara series, appearing in 2015 at 448 pages. Like its neighbors it's a largely self-contained adventure that nonetheless builds toward a Four Lands destabilized by the growing scarcity of magic.
Key facts about The Darkling Child
Terry Brooks wrote The Darkling Child, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2015. The book has 448 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780356502212 to find the main one.
The Darkling Child is book 2 of 3 in The Defenders of Shannara series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with The High Druid's Blade (2014). The High Druid's Blade is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 15 July 2014.
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 The Defenders of Shannara
The Darkling Child is book 2 in the The Defenders of Shannara series. It follows The High Druid's Blade. It is followed by The Sorcerer's Daughter. See the full The Defenders of Shannara reading order.
Terry Brooks's Defenders of Shannara are three loosely connected, largely standalone novels set a century after the Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy, written and marketed as the bridge into the concluding Fall of Shannara series. The High Druid's Blade follows Paxon Leah, a young man drawn into the Druid order and forced to master the magic of his family's ancestral blade to protect his sister from a dangerous sorcerer. The Darkling Child and The Sorcerer's Daughter continue the pattern of self-contained…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780356502212