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How Do John Gwynne’S Of Blood And Bone Books Connect In Series Order?

Reading The Faithful and the Fallen then jumped into Of Blood and Bone. Need a proper timeline to avoid plot confusion for new readers.
2026-07-26 06:15:44
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6 Answers

AJ Love JA
AJ Love JA
I so appreciate how Gwynne develops two series of novels, with the first revolving around prophecy, choice and earning one’s place, and the second exploring faith, dogma and the weight of the past. Reading the series in order allows one to see how these various themes intersect. Thus, in Of Blood and Bone, a character may look to the legend of Corban Fry subsist in terms of measuring up. But, in reality, we know Corban–all his flaws and imperfections. His journey is so dramatic and it can only be appreciated by those who have read the books in proper order. This is dramatic irony at its finest.
2026-07-27
Midnight Shines
Midnight Shines
The order of the series as it was published is laid out on the author’s website and noted in every bookstore’s listing of the series as a sequel trilogy. The series follows as a continuation of the world’s history. The second series is written with a deliberate opposite tone to the first series. The first series is hopeful and heroic while the second series is dark and desperate. That type of tonal shift in a series is meant to show the grimness of war and one can only fully appreciate the hope of the first series by reading it first.
2026-07-28
Shawn Chan Yong Lin
Shawn Chan Yong Lin
The sequel, The Children of War, follows the offspring of the two main points of view from the first war, Bright Star and Black Sun. They follow a chronological order within the world. So you experience the birth of these ‘ideas’ and then follow the fanaticism that they produce in subsequent generations. It is a powerful exploration of ideology and the practical answer to how to read it is to read the seven books in published order. The first four form a complete story and the following three form a new, separate but unbreakable, arc of story that is built on top of the first.
2026-07-30
Ann M Brown
Ann M Brown
I read the novels out of order due to their availability at my local library. I recommend against reading them in this order. First I read A Time of Blood, which left me confused. Then I read A Time of Dread, which was less confusing, but still had many missing pieces. It wasn’t until I read the first four novels of the series in order that everything clicked into place. However, upon returning to the sequel trilogy to re-read it, the novels seemed entirely different. The order of the series is a puzzle and the first four novels give the picture on the box. Attempting to read the sequel trilogy without first having the complete picture of the first four is possible, but it can be very frustrating and you will surely miss out on some crucial aspects of the overall image.
2026-07-31
Cheryl VanCleave
Cheryl VanCleave
It’s quite cool to see how the two connect – a historical documentary and a modern-day political thriller set in the same country. In series one we follow the war that was fought decades ago and in series two we are in the midst of a current crisis where the historical truth of that conflict has been twisted for current political purposes. So the reader gets to experience the current crisis through the eyes of modern characters but with the added knowledge of a historian as to what really happened. It’s a really cool and satisfying read.
2026-08-01

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