Queen Demon

Name: Queen Demon
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Martha Wells
ISBN: 9781250291981

Author: Martha Wells

Series: Rising World #2

Narrator: Eric Mok

Unabridged: 15 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 10/07/2025

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling novel, Witch King. A fantasy of epic scope, Queen Demon is a story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose.

Dahin, a beloved member of the Witch King's coterie, believes he has clues to the location of the Hierarchs' Well, and the Witch King Kai, along with his companions Ziede and Tahren, knowing there's something he isn't telling them, travel with him to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, which may be dangerously close to finding the Well itself.

Can Kai stop the rise of a new Hierarch?

And can he trust his companions to do what’s right?

Follow Kai to the end of the world in this thrilling sequel to the USA Today-bestselling Witch King.

"Narrator Eric Mok ensures that each character, past and present, is instantly recognizable. Listeners are rewarded with a sweeping, immersive story full of fascinating details and studded with small, intimate, moving moments between characters we come to care deeply about." — AudioFile

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

About Martha Wells

MARTHA WELLS has written many novels, including the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling Murderbot Diaries series, which has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards, and was adapted into an Apple Original TV series. Other titles include Witch King, City of Bones, The Wizard Hunters, Wheel of the Infinite, the Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads and ending with The Harbors of the Sun), and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer, as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, and nonfiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robin on April 22, 2025

queen demon, or: the gang does academic research with disastrous consequences kaiisteron prince of the fourth house of the underearth, the demon that you are After the radiant triumph that was Witch King, Martha Wells returns with a sequel decidedly more world spanning that sees Kai and his crew on t......more

Goodreads review by Asher on May 14, 2025

When the first book in a series is utter perfection and the second book is only very, very good, comparison between the two can hide that the book is in fact very, very good. This book is very, very good, and I'm worried that I'm going to end up damning it with faint praise because I think the first......more

Goodreads review by Mazie on July 15, 2025

thanks to NetGalley for the ARC copy of this book! I was so disappointed when I finished Witch King because I didn't realize Queen Demon hadn't been published yet. But I waited patiently and was rewarded so well!! This book is an excellent mix of fast and slow pace. The way Martha Wells writes this......more

Goodreads review by Jesse McConnell on May 03, 2025

Another five star Martha Wells read -- what a shocker! Boy am I glad that I had just finished a reread of Witch King before starting this one, because the story picks up, both past and present, pretty much right where things left off in the first book. I love the dual timelines of this story, with th......more

Goodreads review by Kaye on April 03, 2025

3.5 stars rounded down. Too numb from the ending to write a review......more

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Praise for Witch King

A USA Today Bestseller!
A Sunday Times Bestseller!
Winner of the Locus Award!
A New York Times Best Fantasy of 2023!
An NPR Best Book of 2023!
An AppleBooks Best of the Year!
A 2023 American Booksellers Pick!
A LibraryReads Pick!

“Wells is working at the height of her powers here, and it’s relaxing to be carried along for a ride in the company of such a phenomenal storyteller.” —The New York Times

“A wonderfully original world, sympathetic characters and a solid quest make Witch King the satisfying fantasy you yearn for when named swords and cursed rings begin to grow stale.” —The Wall Street Journal

“A wildly original and complex fantasy exploring how revolutions are won through trust, and destroyed through selfishness. Wells excels at brooding, powerful inhuman protagonists who just need a little kindness to be their badass best.” —N. K. Jemisin

“...The kind of novel you want to sink into, with a narrative style that hooks you in and makes it impossible to put down.” —Alex Brown for NPR

“Unlike anything I've ever read. A layered and complex novel that delivers on the promise of epic fantasy.” —Zoraida Córdova

“Fantasy readers looking for new worlds and characters to explore will be enthralled.” —Library Journal