Description
Two estranged siblings, raised in the shadow of their mother’s legendary fantasy series, are forced to confront what it means to live inside a story that was never meant to outlast its author. In one world, Edith Sharpe’s unfinished Ninth City books have made them famous; in the other, their rural childhood in Vermont still clings like a bruise—until a sudden catastrophe leaves them as the only survivors and the series’ magic begins to turn vine-like, tightening around memory and legacy. As they navigate grief, identity, and the seductive power of creation, they must decide whether the magic that made them can also unmake them. With Melissa Albert’s signature lyrical, fairy-tale-dark sensibility and intricate emotional plotting, this is a haunting novel about art, inheritance, and the cost of becoming a myth.
Available Editions
paperback
Bloomsbury Circus
Published Jun 4, 2026
ISBN: 9781037202469
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Details
First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Children by Melissa Albert.