Jane Fletcher - Which book to read first

This question comes up a lot. The Lyremouth books are straightforward.

1) The Exile and the Sorcerer
2) The Traitor and the Chalice
3) The Empress and the Acolyte

The Celaeno ones are not so easy. They are all intended to be standalone novels that are set on the same planet and only sometimes reuse the same characters, so the order is not critical. However, I think of them in the order I wrote them, and taking the series in this order this will let the reader follow me as my conception of the planet acquires more detail and layering. However this is not the chronological order of the stories.

so the order written in:

1) The Temple at Landfall
2) The Walls of Westernfort
3) Rangers at Roadsend
4) Dynasty of Rogues
5) Shadow of the Knife (due March 2008)

and chronological order:

1) Shadow of the Knife (due March 2008)
2) Rangers at Roadsend
3) The Temple at Landfall
4) The Walls of Westernfort
5) Dynasty of Rogues

As you can see, readers determined to follow the chronological order will have a problem, in that the earliest book is not yet published. I also reserve the right to write books preceding this, should a suitable plot occur to me.

As a word of comfort, to date I have had feedback from readers who have taken the Celaeno Series in every possible order combination, and am yet to hear a complaint that any book did not make sense, or that it spoiled the story for other books in the series.

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