Daughter of Crows
- Author Mark Lawrence
- Narrator Olivia Dowd
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 26 March 2026
- Run Time 14 hours and 30 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Adventure fiction, Dark fantasy, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy, Historical fantasy, Myths and Legends, Urban fantasy.
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What to expect
Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters.
'I never met a Mark Lawrence book that I didn't love' ROBIN HOBB
'An excellent writer' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies – The Kindly Ones – against whom even the gods hesitate to stand.
Each year one hundred girls are sold to the Academy. Ten years later only three emerge.
The Academy’s halls run with blood. The few who survive its decade-long nightmare have been forged on the sands of the Wound Garden. They have learned ancient secrets amid the necrotic fumes of the Bone Garden. They leave its gates as avatars of vengeance, bound to uphold the oldest of laws.
Only the most desperate would sell their child to the Kindnesses. But Rue … she sold herself. And now, a lifetime later, a long and bloody lifetime later, just as she has discovered peace, war has been brought to an old woman’s doorstep.
That was a mistake.
Critics Review
n Praise for Daughter of Crows n
n'Sinks its hooks into you and does not let go'
nn John Gwynn, bestselling author of The Bloodsworn Saga n
n'Unflinching, full-on and mesmerically gripping'
nn The Daily Mail n
n'Smoothly seductive and thought-provoking'
nn The Fantasy Hive n
n'Saturated with venom, vengeance and violence, while also serving as a deeply emotional commentary on age, guilt, memory, and survival. Altogether, Daughter of Crows stands as a powerful reaffirmation of Mark Lawrence's position at the forefront of grimdark fantasy'
nn Grimdark Magazinen
nn Praise for Mark Lawrencen
n‘Excellent – on par with George R.R. Martin’
nn Conn Iggulden, author of GENGHISn
n'The Library Trilogy is one of the most profound and wholly original works of fiction that I’ve read in the past two decades. The Library Trilogy should place Mark Lawrence’s name in the same breath as other twenty-first century masters of speculative fiction'
nn John Mauron
n‘Mark Lawrence gets better with every book. It has a drive to it, a pulse, a gearshift that kicks higher and higher.’
nn Fantasy Book Reviewn
n‘This tale of knowledge and its cost flies by thanks to the gripping mystery and beautiful worldbuilding…readers will be desperate for more.’
nn Publishers Weeklyn
n‘Lawrence works with many threads here, but none feels misused or insufficiently explored. Rather, the author unspools them masterfully, leaving behind a tightly woven tapestry that readers will ache to see finished even if they can predict one or two of the tale’s myriad twists and turns. Gripping, earnest, and impeccably plotted.’
nn Kirkusn
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