Three Parts Dead
- 336
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Three Parts Dead” treats the death of a god as a legal case, and that strange premise is its best asset. A junior associate at a necromantic firm must revive the fire deity that keeps a city running; the magic is carefully thought through, with dry wit alongside. Some readers feel thrown into the world as if an earlier volume were missing, and some find the characters lightly drawn.
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About the book
From the author of the viral bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War... "Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good." —Patrick Rothfuss Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world. A god has died, and it's up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without Him, the metropolis's steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara's job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead god, who's having an understandable crisis of faith. When Tara and Abelard discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb's courts?and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumb's slim hope of survival. Set in a phenomenally built world in which lawyers ride lightning bolts, souls are currency, and cities are powered by the remains of fallen gods, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence introduces readers to a modern fantasy landscape and an epic struggle to build a just society.
Reading order · Craft Sequence
Full order & progress →- Three Parts DeadThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - Two Serpents Rise
7.87.8 / 10 - Full Fathom Five
8.08.0 / 10 - Last First Snow
7.87.8 / 10 - Four Roads Cross
8.18.1 / 10 - The Ruin of Angels
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 229 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 61% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 23 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 206 | 90% |
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How long is Three Parts Dead?
It has 336 pages — shorter than 90% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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