Falling Kingdoms

{{Short description|Young adult fantasy book series}} {{Infobox Novel series | name = Falling Kingdoms | image = File:Falling Kingdoms.jpg | caption = First edition of first book in the series | books = Falling Kingdoms, Rebel Spring, Gathering Darkness, Frozen Tides, Crystal Storm, Immortal Reign | author = Morgan Rhodes | illustrator = | country = United States | language = English | genre = Fantasy | publisher = Penguin Group | pub_date = December 11, 2012-February 6, 2018 | media_type = Print }}

'''''Falling Kingdoms''''' is a fantasy book series for young adults by Morgan Rhodes. It follows the lives of four teenagers: Cleo of Auranos, Jonas of Paelsia, and Magnus and Lucia of Limeros.<ref name="The Huffington Post 2014"> {{cite web | title=Exclusive Interview With Morgan Rhodes, New York Times Best-Selling Author Of the Falling Kingdom Series | website=The Huffington Post | date=2014-09-08 | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/udoka-okafor/exclusive-interview-with-_19_b_5782014.html | accessdate=2016-02-14}}</ref> The series begins after a shocking murder plunges Limeros and Paelsia into a war against Auranos.

''Falling Kingdoms'', the first novel of the series, was published in 2012,<ref name="Rhodes2012">{{cite book|last1=Rhodes |first1=Morgan|title=Falling Kingdoms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f93XL3jIQTIC|date=11 December 2012|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-0-14-134616-8}}</ref><ref name="Lamoureux 2012">{{cite web | last=Lamoureux | first=Jen | title='Falling Kingdoms' by Morgan Rhodes leads today's new releases | website=Hypable | date=2012-12-11 | url=http://www.hypable.com/falling-kingdoms-by-morgan-rhodes-leads-todays-new-releases/ | accessdate=2016-02-14}}</ref> followed by ''Rebel Spring'' (2014),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rhodes |first=Morgan |title=Rebel spring |date=2014 |isbn=978-1-59514-592-5 |location=New York |oclc=861069093}}</ref> ''Gathering Darkness'' (2014),<ref name="Rhodes2014">{{cite book|author=Morgan Rhodes|title=Gathering Darkness: A Falling Kingdoms Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JrITAwAAQBAJ|date=9 December 2014|publisher=Penguin Young Readers Group|isbn=978-1-101-62320-6}}</ref> ''Frozen Tides'' (2015),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rhodes |first=Morgan |title=Frozen tides |date=2015 |isbn=978-1-59514-707-3 |location=New York, New York |oclc=933386032}}</ref> ''Crystal Storm'' (2016),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rhodes |first=Morgan |title=Crystal Storm |date=2016 |publisher=Penguin Young Readers Group |isbn=978-0-698-18559-3 |oclc=964358849}}</ref> and finally ''Immortal Reign'' (2018), which concludes the series.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rhodes |first=Morgan |title=Immortal Reign |date=2018 |isbn=978-1-59514-824-7 |location=[New York] |oclc=1027731373}}</ref>

In 2015, a spin-off series was launched with ''A Book of Spirits and Thieves'',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lamoureux |first1=Jen |title='A Book of Spirits and Thieves' is a time bending journey |url=https://www.hypable.com/a-book-of-spirits-and-thieves/ |website=Hypable |access-date=3 October 2021 |date=23 June 2015}}</ref> followed by ''The Darkest Magic'' (2016).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rhodes |first1=Morgan |title=The Darkest Magic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_xADAAAQBAJ |publisher=Penguin |access-date=3 October 2021 |language=en |date=2016|isbn=9781595147615 }}</ref> In August 2018, Rhodes announced that the third book in the series, ''The Cursed Heir'', is "indefinitely delayed" due to failing sales of the previous books.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rhodes |first1=Morgan |title=The fate of Spirits & Thieves #3 |url=https://morganrhodes.tumblr.com/post/174053518407/the-fate-of-spirits-thieves-3 |access-date=3 October 2021 |date=21 August 2018}}</ref>

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Category:2010s fantasy novels