A world without stories. An ancient hero who can’t remember who she’s supposed to be. And one girl who discovers something that should have never had been forgotten...
The year is 3163, and the world is ruined. Those who have survived the devastation of the Sino Empire and the preceding wars now live as scavengers, fighting to survive in the skeletons of old cities. Sarn is a young scavenger of the Tribe that lives in the Zhongshui, which used to be known as Shanghai. Like the others of her kind, she doesn't speak, doesn't dream, doesn't wonder of what happened before her time...
...that is, until she finds a spark of something in the ruins of an old building. Something almost dead. Something beautiful and fragile. Something named Story...
And that's when everything begins to change.
The Spark Chronicles is a series written by Seraphania, also known as Elleirabird or Ari. It contains five books, two of which are written, with the other three in progress. The books are:
- Spark
- Ironsong
- Boneteller
- Dreamships
- Storychild
There's also a prequel, titled The Last Story, and a short novella called The Sphinx and the Thief detailing Locke and Ankh's origin stories.
Tropes in this series include:
- Badass Normal: Most of the people of the Zhongshui are some shade of this - they live on a dystopian world where buildings crumble beneath their feet. Sarn's a notable example: she fights a tiger.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Lorechant is this in a way; each bridge is based off a different human culture.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Ankh, being a sphinx. Kaelin falls under this too, being a selkie.
- Rule of Cool: Sphinxes? Scimitars? Cities made of glass? Yeah, the entire world of Lorechant operates on this.
