🩸 How to Read the House of Teeth Saga in Order (With Your Heart Still Intact… Mostly)
🩸 How to Read the House of Teeth Saga in Order (With Your Heart Still Intact… Mostly)
Step into a world where magik leaves scars, loyalty comes with a blood price, and survival is often quieter than the scream. The House of Teeth saga isn’t just a fantasy series—it’s a descent into the marrow-deep mythos of Hiraeth and the shattered, burning souls who live there. This guide breaks down the emotional arc and recommended reading order of the saga, complete with warnings, highlights, and whispers of what might just ruin you (in a good way).
📚 Start Here: A Snapshot of the Series
Genre: Queer Dark Fantasy, Hurt/Comfort, Found Family, Moral Complexity
Tropes: Whump, soulbonding, enemies-to-trauma-healers, forbidden magik, sibling loyalty, reluctant romance
Reader Warnings: Addiction, trauma, codependency, psychological abuse, emotional devastation (and healing)
1. No Kingdom for a Fang
📍 Book 1 – Start here
“Where it all begins—fire, betrayal, and the first spark of something worth bleeding for.”
This is Kriia and Rexar’s stage. The first pulse of their connection. The slow-burn tension that flickers beneath the neon-lit frost of Scrila. You’ll get glimpses of the Kaiju race, the elite enforcer Fang family, and your first haunting introduction to Istulyin and the Bogborn cult. The Anima magic system makes its debut here—basic, raw, and mysterious.
Key Themes: Romance through ruin, bloodline expectations, the price of mercy.
Main POVs: Kriia Thomas, Rexar Fang
Remi’s Role: Ex-boyfriend, best friend, quiet storm on the edge.
🩸 Emotion Level: Sharp ache. A storm that hasn't broken yet.
2. A Hymn for the Hollow
📍 Book 2 – Six months later
“The aftermath burns deeper than the first wound. This one hurts, but it’s necessary.”
Rexar is unraveling. His friends are gone. His name is burning. And worst of all—Kriia is losing faith in him. When she seeks comfort with Remi and ends up kidnapped by the Hollows, Rexar is forced to confront his damage and ally with the one person he’s always avoided: Remi Connors.
Meanwhile, the venue fire, the emotional fallout of Vaelyn and Kalypso’s vanishing, and an overdose scene add searing intensity to this chapter.
Key Themes: Grief, fractured trust, sibling bonds, reluctant partnership
Main POVs: Rexar, Kriia, Remi
🩸 Emotion Level: Relentless bleed. The moment you break down—and reach out anyway.
3. The Color of Regret
📍 Book 3 – Eight years before Book 1 (Optional—can be skipped if the content is too heavy.)
“This is the wound before the story begins.”
Remi, age 19. Kriia, age 16. The room they shared. The promises that cracked under the weight of addiction. This prequel dives into Remi’s abusive upbringing, his complex role as Meeko’s older brother and protector, and the quiet, slow heartbreak of Kriia realizing she can’t save someone who doesn’t want saving.
This book hits different if read after books 1 or 2—because now you know what’s coming.
Key Themes: Abuse survival, co-dependency, addiction, shattered innocence
Main POVs: Remi Connors, Kriia Thomas
🛑 Trigger Warning: Romanticized drug use, trauma, grooming dynamics
🩸 Emotion Level: Quiet devastation. The moment before you walk away.
4. To Dream Beneath Dying Stars
📍 Book 4 – 2.5 years after Book 2
“The long road back. The loyalty cuts deeper. And the dead don’t always stay gone.”
Meeko is kidnapped. Remi disappears. And when he returns, he’s not alone. New allies rise—like Levi—but so do old shadows. Remi begins confronting not just his past, but something darker: a force inside him that doesn’t always feel like him.
A possession is hinted. His mother is murdered before his eyes. Readers won’t know what hit them until what comes next…
Key Themes: Queer identity, supernatural trauma, trust fractures, resurrection and grief
🛑 Trigger Warning: parental death, identity loss, spiritual violation
🩸 Emotion Level: Haunting, harrowing, and heartbreakingly intimate.
4.5 A Shifter’s Tale (COMING SOON)
📍 Book 4.5 – During Book 4 – Coming Soon
“While the world burned, he disappeared. This is where he went. And who helped carry the ashes.”
This full-length novel unveils what really happened during Remi’s disappearance, and how he formed an unshakable bond with Levi, the stranger who saw through every defense. Expect caretaking, confrontation, reluctant softness, and quiet moments that remap Remi’s soul.
🗓 Expected Release: Late July/Early August 2025
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🩸 5. The Price of Paradise (COMING SOON)
📍 Book 5 – Direct sequel to Book 4 – Coming Soon
“The plane goes down. The masks come off. Not everyone will walk out.”
After a life-shattering crash, our found family awakens on a strange, uninhabited island. Survival becomes secondary to truth. Alliances fracture. The Veil grows thin. And the price of paradise… may be too high for any of them to pay.
🗓 Expected Release: September/October 2025
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🗺 Which Order Is Best for You?
| You Want… | Read In This Order |
|---|---|
| The Canonical Emotional Arc | 1 → 2 → 4 → 4.5 → 5 |
| The Softest Route | 1 → 2 → 4.5 → 4 → 5 (skip 3) |
| The Pain First | 3 → 1 → 2 → 4 → 4.5 → 5 |
| All the Lore | 1 → 3 → 2 → 4 → 4.5 → 5 |
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