Chris Wooding
The Tales of the Ketty Jay, Malice, the Braided Path — fantasy and YA from a writer with notable range.
Chris Wooding's Tales of the Ketty Jay — beginning with Retribution Falls — runs a sky-pirate fantasy series with rogue protagonists and airship adventures. His standalone The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray sits in gothic-horror YA territory. The Malice and Havoc YA duology combines comics and prose in a single project. The Braided Path trilogy extends his fantasy range. The prose is propulsive and the imaginative range across his catalogue is unusual — Wooding shifts register significantly between projects.
For older YA and adult readers depending on the work. Content varies by project — the Ketty Jay books skew adult with violence and dark themes, the YA work stays in the older-YA register. The reading experience is the pleasure of a writer who tries different things and brings craft to each. Pick this shelf when you want fantasy with imaginative range, sky-pirate adventures in the Ketty Jay books, and a writer whose catalogue rewards exploration across multiple subgenres.
- Sky-pirate fantasy at its best
- Range across multiple subgenres
- Imaginative inventiveness
- Older YA through adult work
