All the Stars and Teeth

All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace is a YA fantasy duology set in a world of blood magic, political power, and treacherous seas. A fierce princess, a crew of unlikely allies, and a kingdom on the brink.

The All the Stars and Teeth series is Adalyn Grace's debut duology - a sweeping YA fantasy set across a world of island kingdoms, ancient blood magic, and the dangerous politics of a monarchy held together as much by fear as by loyalty. The series follows Amora Montara, a princess who has trained her entire life to inherit the throne and wield her kingdom's most powerful and volatile magic. When her demonstration of that magic goes catastrophically wrong on the eve of her coronation, Amora finds herself stripped of her future and forced to flee - setting in motion a sea voyage, an unlikely alliance, and a journey that will force her to question everything she was raised to believe about her kingdom, her magic, and herself. With its vivid world-building, morally complex characters, and a romance built on genuine friction, the All the Stars and Teeth series announced Adalyn Grace as an author with a clear instinct for propulsive, emotionally driven fantasy.

The world Grace builds across the duology is one of its most distinctive elements. The Visión archipelago - a collection of island kingdoms, each with its own cultural identity, magic tradition, and political allegiances - gives the series a breadth and colour that sets it apart from land-locked fantasy. The sea itself becomes a constant presence, shaping the story's rhythm and its dangers, and Grace uses the voyage structure of the first book to move Amora through a world that keeps expanding beyond what she was permitted to know as a sheltered princess. The magic system with consequences is central to this world-building: blood magic in the Montara line is powerful, coveted, and deeply costly, and the series does not flinch from what wielding it actually means.

The political intrigue underpinning the duology gives it an additional layer of substance. Amora's kingdom is not simply a backdrop - it is a place with history, with fractures, and with secrets that the series gradually excavates. The relationship between the island kingdoms, the question of how the Montara monarchy has maintained its grip on power, and the cost of that power to those living beneath it all feed into a narrative that uses its fantasy elements to ask real questions about morally grey choices, loyalty, and what it means to lead.

Books in the All the Stars and Teeth duology

All the Stars and Teeth (2020) is the first book in the All the Stars and Teeth duology, introducing Amora Montara on the night her carefully constructed future falls apart. Forced to flee the kingdom she was born to rule, Amora strikes an uneasy bargain with Bastian - a charming, dangerous pirate with his own agenda - and sets out across the archipelago to reclaim her birthright and uncover the truth behind what went wrong. The crew that assembles around her across the voyage forms the beating heart of the book, with Grace building a found family dynamic that earns its emotional weight through conflict and hard-won trust rather than easy affection. The enemies to allies tension between Amora and Bastian gives the romance its energy, and the high stakes fantasy adventure of the plot keeps the pages turning. The blood magic system is introduced here with real clarity and consequence - this is not magic that comes free, and Amora's relationship with her abilities is one of the book's most compelling threads.

All the Tides of Fate (2021) is the second book in the All the Stars and Teeth duology, continuing Amora's story as the events set in motion across the first book reach their resolution. With the wider archipelago now mapped and the political stakes fully established, the sequel turns its attention to consequences - what Amora's choices have cost, what her kingdom truly is, and whether the future she is fighting for is worth the price being asked of her. Grace uses the finale to deepen the relationships built in the first book whilst pushing her protagonist toward the hardest choices the series has been building toward. The slow-burn romance finds its resolution here, and the political intrigue that has threaded through both books arrives at a reckoning that honours the complexity the series has always treated as central.

The All the Stars and Teeth series is characterised by its island-hopping adventure structure, blood magic with genuine cost, political intrigue woven through the world-building, a found family crew at the story's emotional centre, and the kind of forbidden romance that earns its tension across two full books. Adalyn Grace brings the same atmospheric instincts and emotional intelligence to this duology that would later define the Belladonna series - readers who love one will find much to recognise in the other, even as the two worlds feel entirely distinct.