Muse of Nightmares

How it reads

Muse of Nightmares is young adult (ya epic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is eerie. It's atmospheric and uncanny, with a sense that something is wrong. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are family, love and redemption. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 514 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.