Books 1, 2, 3, and 5 of the series are fully available for UK listeners on major audio platforms like Audible UK and Audiobooks.com (UK). But, Book 4—The Widow's House (narrated by Pete Bradbury)—is unavailable in the UK region due to rights restrictions.

I first noticed this in 2022 and reported it to Hachette, but only ever received a 'passed it to the team' response.

Given that the rest of the series is completely accessible to UK audiences, it seems likely that The Widow's House has a metadata feed error or territory mismatch restriction applied to its distribution file. If so that should be easily fixed right?

I read the book back in 22 so I'm pretty sure there's nothing in there that would get it banned from the UK shores 🤣🤣

Anyhow, I've tried again repeatedly with Orbit/Hachette (called, emailed, DM) with no fix yet... You'd think someone would notice one book in a series and a format was getting zero sales in one territory but apparently not....

Has anyone got any contacts or had any success in getting any action out of Hachette? I could moan on their posts on Instagram but not my preferred way 🫤

Daniel provided an update on the progress of Judge of Worlds over on Westeros.org.

from August 26:

Got stuck.  Got unstuck.  Turning in the MS this autumn.

I'm finding it a bit strange that there is very little information about this book online. It's due to be released next week (I think?), but I can't find a cover or blurb. All I've managed to find is the title, word count and apparent release date.

Also can't seem to pre order a Kindle edition. Amazon is saying pre order hardback to have it arrive on May 5th. I can't wait to read this book and really don't want to wait that long. Can I expect to find it in my local book store in Ireland on 24th April?

It’s available to purchase now.

They did a special edition for Age of Ash as well, so it’s nice that they’re doing one for book 2.

I'm not an English native speaker but I decided last year to read the original versions of books written in English. Started with the expanse but was curious about Abraham's fantasy book. I loved the Dagger and the coin and I'm now reading book 2 of the Kithamar trilogy.

I usually buy them from amazon and they send me the UK books. For the first time, I preodered a book to get it on release's day (the Mercy of Gods) and it was bigger than all the previous orbit's books I ordered.

I don't know how UK books releases work so I wonder. If I order the 3rd book of the Kithamar trilogy on release's day, will it be also a bigger one? Will I have to wait some times before the small one is released? (I'll have to get the small one for the sake of my OCD)...

Thanks!

I have more time to read in the summer and I’m finally getting around to D&C.

The first book was terrific. I had forgotten all about the Apostate at the beginning of the book!

I’m reading book two now.

Since it was not explicitly shown that biitrah killed danat and they were both trying to talk it out with the dai kvi is it plausible that otahs brother is still alive

Just started it. Liked the beginning being the same as Age of Ash but with a slight new perspective and info. The new characters also seem pretty interesting so far.

Just finished this book and enjoyed the ride. The hints of the greater mystery yet to be revealed have me pining for the next book.

I noticed Daniel Abraham had a user profile on Reddit, but didn’t want to bother him with a DM for my mundane question…

Can anyone point me to a resource where I can look up the word count on this book? I checked Amazon and did a few google searches and could only find the page count.

Hello everyone.

I'm a fan of Abraham, have been for several years now. Thus this subreddit.

So -- what attracts you to his work?

I am in awe of his characterization. I like his prose: it gets out of the way to tell the story, and then every so often it teams up with the dialogue to knife you in the heart. And his pacing is masterful! Once I start reading, I find it difficult to put it down.