The Chronicles of Castellane · Book 2
The Ragpicker King
- Published
- 4 March 2025
- Pages
- 577
- ISBN-13
- 9780525620020
- Type
- novel
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About this book
Published in March 2025, roughly a year and a half after the series opener, The Ragpicker King runs 577 pages and escalates Castellane's political stakes as the city's carefully balanced power structures begin to fracture.
Its place in The Chronicles of Castellane
The Ragpicker King is book 2 in the The Chronicles of Castellane series. It follows Sword Catcher. See the full The Chronicles of Castellane reading order.
Cassandra Clare's first adult fantasy series leaves the Shadowhunter Chronicles' modern-day setting behind for Castellane, a glittering, corrupt city-state ruled by a mad king and threaded through with hidden magic. Kel is the Sword Catcher: a body double trained since childhood to physically stand in for Prince Conor, taking any blade or poison meant for him and living in the shadow of a life that was never really his own. When a foreign alliance forces Conor toward a politically vital marriage, Kel is drawn…
Editions
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