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Claire Legrand

New York Times bestselling author of darkly magical books

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Extasia

NOW IN PAPERBACK: EXTASIA

"The Handmaid's Tale meets The Craft" in this standalone horror novel for fans of Victoria Schwab and Elana K. Arnold. A 2023 Rainbow Book List selection and a Spring 2022 Kids' Indie Next pick!

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The cover of Claire Legrand's book EXTASIA.
A Crown of Ivy and Glass

A Crown of Ivy and Glass

Bridgerton meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in Claire Legrand's adult debut A Crown of Ivy and Glass, the first book in the Middlemist Trilogy, a lush, sweeping fantasy-romance series that begins in spring 2023.

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A Crown of Ivy and Glass
Waves of YA Podcast

Waves of YA Podcast: Mental Health in YA

A conversation with Claire and librarians from the Ocean County Library about the importance of authentically discussing and exploring mental health challenges in literature for young readers.

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Empirium paperback

EXPLORE THE EMPIRIUM

Two indomitable heroines. Two stories of magic, passion, and sacrifice. One epic saga that spans millennia. Dive into the world of the New York Times-bestselling Empirium Trilogy.

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My First Adult Book

Some exciting news! More books are on the way—this time, an adult fantasy romance series called the Middlemist Trilogy. Book 1 is called A Crown of Ivy and Glass, and we recently revealed the cover at io9. Go check it out! You can also read an excerpt from the first chapter.

I like to describe this series as Bridgerton meets A Court of Thorns and Roses, and each book is inspired by a different classic romantic ballet—Giselle, The Firebird, and Swan Lake.

This trilogy is the story of the Ashbourne sisters—Gemma, Farrin, and Mara—who must fight the dark forces destroying the Middlemist, an ancient barrier that protects their world from the dangerous realm of the old gods. Book 1 of the Middlemist Trilogy, A Crown of Ivy and Glass, is Gemma’s story and will be my adult fiction debut. I’m ridiculously excited to share it with all of you!

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BOOK PLAYLISTS

Check out Claire’s book playlists to explore what she listens to while writing.

CLAIRE ON SPOTIFY

[Quicksilver’s] gradual growth over the course of the novel is a powerful triumph. Quicksilver will resonate strongly with any reader who has ever reacted to fear by building emotional walls. Verdict: A fine purchase. Recommend to fantasy readers, especially fans of Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy.

School Library Journal
Foxheart

The stories are remarkable both for their uniformly high quality and for their distinctness from one another; the abundant atmospherics, including occasional stark black-and-white illustrations, provide a unifying sense of dread. The framing device—the curators send letters from the field introducing their latest discoveries—adds depths of mystery, danger, and idiosyncrasy to a book already swimming in each.

The Horn Book
The Cabinet of Curiosities

★ Heart-pounding adventure, a commitment to remaining true to oneself, and deft storytelling distinguish Legrand’s epic action-fantasy.

Publishers Weekly, starred review
Foxheart

Immersive and intricate, FURYBORN is a kick-you-in-the-teeth and grab-you-by-the-heart tale of two queens.

Roshani Chokshi
New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen and Aru Shah and the End of Time
Furyborn

Legrand’s lush and uniquely evocative prose keeps tensions high throughout Amity’s struggle with her magic, fury, and conscience.

School Library Journal
Extasia

Claire Legrand’s latest feminist horror novel is even more frightening than Sawkill Girls and perfect for fans of The Grace Year, Wilder Girls, and The Wicked Deep.

Alyssa Raymond
Copper Dog Books (Beverly, MA)
Extasia

Claire Legrand’s Furyborn is as complex as the angels it depicts—captivating and lovely, volatile and deadly. The contrast of elegant, stately court politics with gritty, blood-soaked war is balanced perfectly alongside shifting timelines, blurred prophecies, and a sprawling cast of characters, each more alluring than the last. Furyborn is a sexy, luscious shiver of a book.

Sara Raasch
New York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes trilogy
Furyborn

There’s old-fashioned appeal in the kids roaming free and exploring the outdoors, and . . . the story’s exceedingly satisfying and well told.

Common Sense Media
Some Kind of Happiness

Full of creepy, gory horror and a well-developed scheme of magic, Extasia is a feminist thriller that lets the reader see what it could be like to become fully, finally, awake.

Aubrey Freely
Mostly Books (Tucson, AZ)
Extasia

Furyborn was incredible, Kingsbane is better! The second novel has even more magic, cliffhangers, and romance… Already excited for the next one in this trilogy. This is a wild ride.

Suzanne Lucey
Page 158 Books (Wake Forest, NC)
Kingsbane

Claire Legrand’s tour de force delivers a magical misfit heroine and a heart-stealing dog in a riveting cosmic conflict, with much devastating loss and joyous triumph along the way. Foxheart brings a lot of positive messages as its imaginative plot unfurls, and raises a lot of relatable themes, from fledgling friendship gone wrong to abandonment issues. Legrand packs rich characterization, world-building, and exploration into her imaginative, fast-moving story. Many readers will want to bring along a box of tissues for the journey.

Common Sense Media
Foxheart

★ This is cinematically, gorgeously creepy and horrific, sliding between breathlessly suspenseful and disturbingly grotesque. …A wholly and frighteningly unique tale.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review
Sawkill Girls

Legrand excels at world-building, deftly integrating the religion and history of this imaginary world into a dark yet rousing adventure story that combines passion and danger at every turn.

Booklist
Furyborn

The characters are well drawn; the specters are particularly appealing. At its heart, this not-too-scary ghost story is about relationships and repairing the hurt that people cause one another.

School Library Journal
The Year of Shadows

Legrand brings her trilogy to a triumphant but bittersweet ending, effortlessly weaving together complicated plot strands and giving further nuance to already complex characters…

The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Lightbringer

As the story closely examines indoctrination, belief-systems, and violence, there will be no settling answers within these pages, only a genre-defying dish of Palahniuk-esque disturbing content with a side of chilled blood. Mind. Blown.

Leah Atlee
Bright Side Bookshop (Flagstaff, AZ)
Extasia

Claire [Legrand’s] fantastically spooky The Year of Shadows will keep you turning its pages well into the night, even though the floorboards are creaking and funny shapes lurk in the corner of your eye. Such is the allure of tempestuous, terrific Olivia, the complex and utterly real heroine who is suffering from one misfortune and indignity too many–and that’s before the ghosts arrive. Though we soon see that sometimes ghosts are the least of the things that haunt us, the book assures us that with spirit and hope we can create light in the most shadowy of places. Also, like all the best books, it has a really great cat.

Anne Ursu
author ofBreadcrumbs
The Year of Shadows

★ Legrand handles the tough subject of childhood mental health gently and honestly, and. . . . paints a realistic picture of a girl trying to figure out what’s wrong with her. Finley’s quest to uncover family secrets reveals not just what kept her father away from his relatives but how a family sticks together through good times and bad.

Publishers Weekly, starred review
Some Kind of Happiness

The too-serene-to-be-true town of Belleville harbors some creepy secrets in Legrand’s debut, a sinister and occasionally playful tale of suspense. Legrand gives Victoria’s mission a prickly energy, and her descriptions of the sighing, heaving home—a character in itself—are the stuff of bad dreams. Watts’s b&w illustrations of spindly characters, cryptic shadows, and cramped corridors amplify the unsettling ambiance, and her roach motif may have readers checking their arms.

Publishers Weekly
The Cavendish Home for Boys & Girls

Readers will find the complex and flawed characters immensely relatable. The two narratives are deftly interwoven, and plot twists will keep teens on the edge of their seats.

School Library Journal, a Popular Pick
Furyborn

Furyborn is epic and unforgettable. I was immediately captivated by the story of two powerful young women fighting to survive in this vivid, unique fantasy world. A must-read!

Amy Tintera
New York Times bestselling author of the Ruined trilogy
Furyborn

With eight drawers–the themes tucked within the Cabinet of Curiosities–and four curators (authors), this collection of 36 goosepimply tales flows smoothly, one into the next, and will offer plenty for boys and girls to keep them up at night, around the campfire or in a tent by flashlight.

Shelf Awareness
The Cabinet of Curiosities

Imaginative and creepy, with a frightening villainess, this atmospherically illustrated fantasy will suck readers in.

The Horn Book Guide Reviews
The Cavendish Home for Boys & Girls

The book’s message is a worthy one: ‘It is no small thing, to have a gentle heart.’

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Thornlight

Lush, riveting, and full of intrigue, Furyborn is a gripping read that grapples with questions of power, fate, and our abilities to change the world.

S. Jae-Jones
New York Times bestselling author of Wintersong
Furyborn

A spell-binding successor to Furyborn…setting up the series for a truly captivating and heart-racing ending.

Hypable
Kingsbane

★ A quiet magic is at work in Legrand’s novel, in which she adeptly interweaves Fin’s imaginative writing with the real-life narrative, underpinning all with an appeal to honesty and self-acceptance. This beautiful and reflective tale carries echoes of Katherine Patterson’s The Bridge to Terabithia (1977) and will resonate with thoughtful readers who enjoy pondering life’s bigger questions.

Booklist, starred review
Some Kind of Happiness

★ A hefty sheaf of chillers—all short enough to share aloud and expertly cast to entice unwary middle graders a step or two into the shadows.

Kirkus Reviews, starred review
The Cabinet of Curiosities

Legrand crafts a fiercely unsubtle feminist fantasy that takes on the patriarchy and the toxicity of hate.

Booklist
Extasia

Visionary.

Bustle magazine
Furyborn

Witches, saints, romance, and gore collide in this story that is part horror, part thriller and wholly feminist. Extasia is a moonlit, genre-bending novel that is truly as spellbinding and beautiful as it is grotesque. Hand this to fans of The Handmaid’s Tale & The Grace Year.

Cristina Russell
Books & Books (Coral Gables, FL)
Extasia

Best-selling YA author Legrand’s first novel for adults is full of high stakes for her characters and detailed fantasy worldbuilding with interesting mythology for readers.

Library Journal
A Crown of Ivy and Glass

The combination of the Stepford-like town and the atmospheric home provide a deliciously creepy backdrop to this precise blend of dark humor and genuine horror. . . . Victoria is . . . oddly endearing, and readers with their own color-coordinated planners will thrill to see her leadership skills and sheer determination save the day.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
The Cavendish Home for Boys & Girls

. . a terrifying tale laced with chilling secrets and stunning revelations.

New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2012
The Cavendish Home for Boys & Girls

★ Through this dank, atmospheric, and genuinely frightening narrative, Legrand weaves powerful threads about the dangerous journey of growing up female…an intensely character-driven story about girls who support each other, girls who betray each other, and girls who love each other in many complicated ways. Strange, eerie, and unforgettable.

ALA Booklist, starred review
Sawkill Girls

Imagine if Wednesday Addams had written The Princess Bride and you’ve got some kind of idea of Some Kind of Happiness — a dark and meditative fantasy written with Claire Legrand’s signature light touch.

Tim Federle
author of Better Nate Than Ever
Some Kind of Happiness

In this sweetly snarky, poignant tale of the supernatural, the terrors come less from the afterlife than from this one–losing loved ones, losing your home, losing your job.

Common Sense Media
The Year of Shadows, The Year of Shadows

Above and beyond my expectations!

Leah Atlee
Changing Hands Bookstore (Phoenix, AZ)
Kingsbane

I tried to stop reading Furyborn and go to bed… then I got up and kept going. Epic in scope, endless in imagination, this book will grab hold of you and refuse to let go.

Amie Kaufman
New York Times bestselling author of The Illuminae Files
Furyborn

Legrand’s epic feminist fantasy is scary, sexy, and intense, set in a world made rich with magic, history, and a gorgeously imagined literary tradition.

Melissa Albert
New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood
Furyborn

A multilayered plot, engaging characters, and more than one mystery highlight this ambitious novel. . . . Legrand successfully weaves it all into a rich, nuanced tale that culminates in a convincing and satisfying conclusion.

School Library Journal
Some Kind of Happiness

A mixture of The Wilder Girls and The Grace Year, Extasia explodes off the page and grabs you by the throat. I couldn’t have stopped reading this book if I tried.

Katlin Kerrison
Story on the Square (McDonough, GA)
Extasia

Legrand successfully brings a supernatural gruesomeness to her exploration of morality and agency.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Extasia

Furyborn by Claire Legrand is the epic start to a YA fantasy trilogy focused on two very different and fascinating young women, a delicious villain, non-stop action, and heart-pounding romance. A fantastic read!

Morgan Rhodes
New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen Kingdoms series
Furyborn

Legrand’s adult debut is the kind of lushly magical romance we need in a world of thorns and ghosts, real and imagined. As someone who also suffers from mental illness and chronic pain, I’ve never felt so seen as through the heroine Gemma, and I felt her journey so deeply. Legrand also does a fantastic job with her setting, a magical Regency-esque period with the whimsy of beautiful ballgowns and clandestine meetings balanced by the inherent darkness of the power of magic. I truly adored this book and hope for so much more in this world.

Sami Thomason-Fyke
Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library (Oxford, MS)
A Crown of Ivy and Glass

This is a story that’s equally heartwarming and heartbreaking (though the kind of heartbreak that pushes you to keep fighting), the sum of its parts undeniably magical.

Britt Margit
Second Star to the Right Children's Books (Denver, CO)
Thornlight

Told in short, alternating chapters, Claire Legrand’s Furyborn is an explosive trilogy-starter. Both Rielle and Eliana are strong and complicated with abilities that surpass anything their contemporaries can imagine. They are unapologetically powerful—women who know they are extraordinary and demand to be seen as such. And while both young women radiate strength and force, they are also distinctly human. Their stories are raw, filled with raging desire–for power, for sex, for safety. … Furyborn is a fantasy of wrath and passion, of young women who nod to the rules of their society while slyly or violently knocking down whatever stands in their way. They are strength incarnate and they are coming for you, Katniss, Beatrice and Clary.

Shelf Awareness
Furyborn

The peril always seems real, evoked fully as the author switches from Thorn’s to Brier’s to Celestyna’s to the Gulgot’s internal thoughts. . . . [An] edgy, intricate fantasy.

School Library Journal
Thornlight

★ …Add to this plot a sentient island, a centuries-old fraternal order, bone-deep feminism and coming-of-age story arcs to get Claire Legrand’s (Furyborn) remarkable Sawkill Girls. Legrand accomplishes the kind of slow-building tension and mounting horror that will give readers night terrors. Read this book, then lock it in the freezer.

Shelf Awareness, starred review
Sawkill Girls

I hope everyone is ready to cry a bucket of tears over this victorious and vengeful sequel… Legrand’s writing has never been so fierce and frenetic, and Kingsbanemoves at a breakneck pace that left me breathless. I wanted to stay in this world forever and I’ll be heartbroken when the trilogy ends.

Sami Thomason
Square Books (Oxford, MS)
Kingsbane

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale meets M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village in Extasia, a sinister story of unchecked religious extremism in a post-apocalyptic world. This book gave me chills on every page. I could not put it down!

Carissa Mina
The Wandering Jellyfish (Niwot, CO)
Extasia

With prose as fierce and uncompromising as its three main characters, Sawkill Girls is a fresh and unflinching exploration of female friendship wrapped in a spine-tingling page-turner. Claire Legrand doesn’t hold back–and you won’t be able to put this book down.

Courtney Summers
New York Times-bestselling author of Sadie and All the Rage
Sawkill Girls

Part spine-chilling horror story and part coming-of-age lesbian romance… If you are looking for something to scare you awake at night, this is the book for you.

Kirkus Reviews
Sawkill Girls

A sad, happy, strange book, with some of the most memorable ghosts I’ve ever read. It’s full of shadows, but it’s also full of sparks and light and big, glowing scenes, and while it’ll break your heart more than once, it somehow manages to glue it all back together by the end. I loved it.

Stefan Bachmann
author of The Peculiar and The Whatnot
The Year of Shadows

An utter triumph I can’t wait to see on shelves across the globe.

Britt Margit
Second Star to the Right Children’s Books (Denver, CO)
Lightbringer

Extasia is power, and Claire Legrand is a legend. . . . I love the rage, the sorrow, the love despite it all. I loved everything about this book, and can’t wait for readers to recoil with wide eyes from the very first pages.

Caitlyn Vanorder
Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC)
Extasia

Beautiful, brutal, heart-stopping, and epic, Furyborn is a world to lose yourself in—just bring weapons. It’s dangerous there.

Laini Taylor
New York Times bestselling author of Strange the Dreamer and the Daughter of Smoke and Bone saga
Furyborn

Finley’s marvelous adventure will resonate with anyone who has battled a broken heart through the power of story. The courage she finds along the way will leave you cheering – and believing in magic – even in the darkest part of the woods.

Natalie Lloyd
author of A Snicker of Magic
Some Kind of Happiness

It’s the perfect mix of blood, mystery, and high fantasy that readers of the genre crave and an amazing middle hinge for the trilogy to swing on. I am so anxiously awaiting the third book.

Chaning Green
Square Books (Oxford, MS
Kingsbane

★ …This tale, featuring an asexual character and a beautifully wrought queer romance, focuses on the power of female friendship and what it means to pit women against each other in fiction and in real life.

Publishers Weekly, starred review
Sawkill Girls

A must-read!

Refinery29
Furyborn

This massive novel packs a punch. The characters are passionate and well defined. The worldbuilding is immense, colorful, exciting, and unique. The villains are horrible. The author saves a final twist for the last few pages that throws everything into line and will leave readers thirsting for the next book.

VOYA Magazine
Furyborn

Deliciously eerie short stories lure readers down dark and winding paths from which they may never return.

New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, 2014
The Cabinet of Curiosities

Insidiously creepy, searingly sinister, and spine-tinglingly fun, this book also presents a powerful message about friendship and the value of individuality.

School Library Journal
The Cavendish Home for Boys & Girls

The beating heart of the story . . . is the bond between Quicksilver and Fox. . . . Those touched by the girl/wolf story in Rundell’s The Wolf Wilder will be drawn to the theme and find a similarly strange but successful mix of wit, pathos, and action here.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Foxheart

The story of The Nutcracker receives a sinister steampunk twist in an engrossing retelling. Legrand’s story is rich in fantastical realism…

Publishers Weekly
Winterspell

From the opening pages, Claire Legrand’s Furyborn plunges the reader into a captivatingly imaginative world filled with intrigue and deception. Beauty wars with violence as the stories of these two fierce women intertwine with stunning results. Furyborn will leave you breathless and aching for more.

Lisa Maxwell
New York Times bestselling author of The Last Magician
Furyborn

★ A heartwarming friendship tale . . . A thoroughgoing ickfest, elevated by vulnerable but resilient young characters and capped by a righteously ominous closing twist.

Kirkus Reviews, starred review
The Cavendish Home for Boys & Girls

Legrand has pulled off a difficult trick in this novel. She’s constructed a story-within-a-story fairy tale that’s utterly compelling but sounds as though it was written by an 11-year-old girl. . . . A layered, thoughtful exploration.

Kirkus Reviews
Some Kind of Happiness

A series to watch.

Paste magazine
Furyborn

Not for the faint of heart, this curious collection of stories will haunt and, at times, horrify and are best read by flashlight.

Booklist
The Cabinet of Curiosities

Legrand fills her story with magic, danger, and suspense, and places two fiery female protagonists at its helm. . . . Give to readers looking to go on a fantastical journey.

Booklist
Foxheart

A bounty of lust, gore, and moral dilemmas, [Winterspell] is sure to please fans of dark fairy tales.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Winterspell

As in The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls (2012), Legrand shows twin knacks for creating creepy supernatural elements and thoroughly scary experiences for her central characters.

Kirkus Reviews
The Year of Shadows, The Year of Shadows

The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls is weirdly charming and creepy. I loved the intrepid girl hero Victoria and her determination to save her best friend from the scariest Home ever. An enormously fun–and shivery–read.

Sarah Prineas
author of The Magic Thief series
The Cavendish Home for Boys & Girls

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Craft in this feminist standalone from Legrand (the Empirium trilogy), a fusion of horror and queer romantic fantasy that advocates unity, self-empowerment, and societal change.

Publishers Weekly
Extasia

An eerie, atmospheric assertion of female strength.

Mindy McGinnis
author of The Female of the Species
Sawkill Girls

A Crown of Ivy and Glass features a queer, chronically ill, chronically anxious main character and a beautiful, lush world that reaches out and pulls the reader in. Like a moth to a flame, Claire’s words are deadly and beautiful, and so, so worth the pain you’ll suffer once you’ve been consumed. Lovers of high fantasy, slow burn, stinging spice, and enemies to lovers relationships will delight in this story, and come begging for more.

Caitlyn Vanorder
Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC)
A Crown of Ivy and Glass

Words can’t describe how I loved A Crown of Ivy and Glass! I had been for something that scratched the fantasy romance itch that was a bit more mature than the normal YA. . . . I was absolutely riveted. The chronic pain representation along with female friendships was a balm to my lonely soul and I cannot wait for the next volume!

Katlin Kerrison
Story on the Square (McDonough, GA)
A Crown of Ivy and Glass

The explosive finale…doesn’t disappoint; it’s every bit as gut-wrenching as its predecessors and even more cathartic.

Sami Thomason
Square Books (Oxford, MS)
Lightbringer

Luscious writing and magical moments.

Kirkus Reviews
Thornlight

For all those who sit quietly, have a soft strength, and forge ahead to do what is right even though they are afraid, this is the story you’ve been waiting for.

Marielle Orff
Town Center Books (Collegeville, PA)
Thornlight

Fans of shivery tales will find much to appreciate here, from dolls who love their playmates a little too much to luck that comes at a high price.

School Library Journal
The Cabinet of Curiosities

★ Legrand’s lush and pensive prose matches the murky, dangerous, and beautiful island setting…. Rich and earthy horror.

School Library Journal, starred review
Sawkill Girls

In an epic that spans a millennium, Legrand serves up a veritable feast of magic: mystical beings, ruthless power struggles, and gorgeously cinematic writing that will sweep you off your feet.

Traci Chee
New York Times bestselling author of The Reader trilogy
Furyborn

Depression and anxiety are usually reserved for YA fare, so it’s refreshing to see those matters brought to younger readers and especially to those kids struggling to voice emotions they don’t yet understand. Legrand handles the topic with sensitivity and compassion.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Some Kind of Happiness

A steamy romance and devious twists along the way pack surprises. … The rigid, cliffhanger-heavy chapter structure is supported by breakneck pacing and constant action. … High stakes, epic scope, intense action, and sweeping mythologies.

Kirkus Reviews
Furyborn

Legrand . . . has created a horror-tinged tale of triumph over loss and the destructive nature of hopelessness, that is full of well-rounded characters, a spooky gothic mood, and eerie glimpses into the past lives of the ghosts.

Booklist
The Year of Shadows

Reader, hang on for dear life. SAWKILL GIRLS is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power.

Sarah Gailey
author of River of Teeth
Sawkill Girls

Kingsbane was everything I was expecting from a sequel to Furyborn and more… This is one book I absolutely cannot wait to start selling.

Caitlyn Vanorder
Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC)
Kingsbane

My goodness, the devastation that this book will wreak upon readers is intense. The Empirium trilogy has been such a marvellous work of fiction and I’ve followed the story of Rielle and Eliana from the moment I laid eyes on Furyborn. The worldbuilding in this trilogy is stunning, and the character development too.

Nathalie DeFelice
The Nerd Daily
Lightbringer

Legrand has created magic on every page. Flawed, smart, and fierce heroines kept me dazzled and breathless. Furyborn is explosive and stunning.

Mary E. Pearson
New York Times bestselling author of The Remnant Chronicles and The Jenna Fox Chronicles
Furyborn

[A] masterful sequel. . . . Rich descriptions, near-constant action, and full-bodied characters keep readers riveted.

Booklist
Kingsbane

Claire Legrand is one of the most exciting voices in YA fantasy-and in YA as a whole-writing right now.

Mackenzie Van Engelenhoven
The King’s English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT)
Kingsbane

Old-school horror meets fresh, female-forward fury. Claire Legrand masterfully paints this island world of terror with a blood-soaked brush.

Elana K. Arnold
Author of National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of
Sawkill Girls

Snappy dialogue and creative fantasy elements–bloodthirsty unicorns, a dragon who collects teapots and is scared of ghosts–will delight seasoned fantasy readers, while the power of friendship between Girl and Fox gives the story depth.

The Horn Book
Foxheart

What a mesmerizing whirlwind of a story! I was simultaneously horrified and enchanted by the land of Cane, with all its passion and mysteries, magic and mechaniks. Claire Legrand’s writing has the grace of a ballet, but this is definitely not your grandmother’s Nutcracker tale.

Marissa Meyer
New York Times bestselling author of Cinder
Winterspell

Set in an immersive world of elemental magic, legendary godsbeasts, and cutthroat assassins, Claire Legrand’s Furyborn is an addictive, fascinating fantasy. Truly not to be missed, this story of two fierce queens battling their way across two different eras will have you on the edge of your seat.

Kendare Blake
#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series
Furyborn

★ This collection of 36 short dark fantasies . . . aspires to sit on the same shelf as Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and succeeds admirably. . . . Readers who enjoy their Halloween chills all year round will find this anthology a delight.

Publishers Weekly, starred review
The Cabinet of Curiosities

Fans of the first installment won’t be disappointed, especially if they enjoyed Sarah J. Maas’ lusty romances (A Court of Thorns and Roses, BCCB 7/15, etc.).

Bulletin of the Center for the Children’s Books
Kingsbane

Strikingly vivid prose… the nearly five hundred pages race by in stunning fashion. This is a must-have for fans of Marchetta’s Lumatere Chronicles (Finnikin of the Rock), or Cashore’s Graceling.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review
Furyborn

In this unique retelling of The Nutcracker, the author weaves the original story and characters together seamlessly with a rich setting and spins a romantic and dark new tale.

School Library Journal
Winterspell

A rousing conclusion to a series studded with unforgettable heroes and villains.

Booklist
Lightbringer

The mission that Thorn and Briar embark on will keep you suspended on the edge of your seat with a few surprises that will pique any reader’s interest.

Judith Lafitte
Octavia Books (New Orleans, LA)
Thornlight

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This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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