Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Glittering Court | 2016 | Richelle Mead | Buy |
| 2 | Midnight Jewel | 2017 | Richelle Mead | Buy |
| 3 | The Emerald Sea | 2018 | Richelle Mead | Buy |
Richelle Mead’s The Glittering Court is a three-book young adult fantasy series published between 2016 and 2018. The series is set in a fictional world with strong parallels to colonial-era America and England. The Glittering Court is an institution that recruits young women, trains them in manners and refinement, and sends them across the ocean to be matched with wealthy settlers in a new land. Each book follows a different woman’s experience with the Court.
The trilogy includes The Glittering Court, Midnight Jewel, and The Emerald Sea. While each book features a different protagonist, the stories are connected and take place in the same world. Mead, best known for the Vampire Academy and Bloodlines series, moves away from vampires and urban fantasy here in favor of historical-inspired world-building and romance. The series deals with themes of class, identity, and the gap between the promises made to these women and what they actually find when they arrive in the colonies.