The Book of Words was a solid opening trilogy, but The Sword of Shadows is one of the A-tier of epic fantasies of recent decades, comfortably sitting on a par with Robin Hobb's Ream of the Elderlings series, George R.R. In the meantime, Jones is already considering plans for the last book in the series, which now boasts the working title A Sword Named Loss. The novel will probably be published some time in 2024, depending on the situation with her publishers. She began work on the novel again in 2017 and now reports that she is around six months away from finishing the book. Since the publication of Watcher of the Dead, Jones has dealt with real life issues and problems that cut into her writing time. The series is a loose sequel to her earlier work, The Book of Words trilogy, consisting of The Baker's Boy (1995), A Man Betrayed (1996) and Master and Fool (1997). The four extant novels in the series are: A Cavern of Black Ice(1999), A Fortress of Grey Ice (2002), A Sword from Red Ice (2007) and Watcher of the Dead (2010).
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