The Books of the Raksura · Book 2
The Serpent Sea
- Published
- 3 January 2012
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9781597803328
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Serpent Sea followed The Cloud Roads by a year, continuing The Books of the Raksura as its second entry at 384 pages, following Moon's court, the Indigo Cloud, as they work to rebuild a damaged home tree.
Its place in The Books of the Raksura
The Serpent Sea is book 2 in the The Books of the Raksura series. It follows The Cloud Roads. It is followed by The Siren Depths. See the full The Books of the Raksura reading order.
Moon has spent his entire life hiding what he is, drifting between short-lived communities of other species because revealing his shapeshifting, dragon-like true form has always meant being driven out or killed. The Cloud Roads (2011) begins when he's finally found by others of his own kind, the Raksura -- a matriarchal, caste-structured flying people he never knew existed -- and has to decide whether he can belong to a society built on rules he's never learned. Martha Wells builds an unusually detailed non-human…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597803328