The Moth Reborn Release Date: Everything We Know So Far

The Moth Reborn by Samantha Shannon comes out on 18 February 2027, published by Bloomsbury in the UK. It's Book 6 of The Bone Season, and Shannon's own website calls it the penultimate novel in the series (source). Some retailers list the UK hardcover a week later and the US edition a few days later, so it helps to know which edition you're waiting for.

When does The Moth Reborn come out?

Our calendar has The Moth Reborn coming out on 18 February 2027. Google Books lists the Bloomsbury Publishing edition for that same date (source).

Not every listing agrees, though. Amazon UK gives the UK hardcover a date one week later (source). Goodreads shows that later date as well (source), and so does Better World Books for the Bloomsbury edition (source).

In North America, the book comes from Bloomsbury Archer, the US arm of Bloomsbury, and NetGalley gives it a publication date five days after ours (source). Amazon.com lists the US hardcover for that same day (source), and Amazon Canada matches it (source).

Has the release date moved?

None of these listings mention a delay. They simply disagree by a few days depending on the edition and the shop, and every one of them still points to February 2027. If you're in the US, the extra few days are about the most painless delay a fantasy reader is ever likely to face.

How anticipated is The Moth Reborn?

Very. Of the 83 upcoming books with a confirmed date on our calendar, The Moth Reborn is number 9 by readers on Hardcover, putting it ahead of 89% of them. It has about 15 times the readers of the typical upcoming book on that list.

For context, the first book in the series, The Bone Season, has 1,113 readers on Hardcover. That's a lot for Hardcover, which is a much smaller site than Goodreads or StoryGraph. It's also the most-read book in the series there, and each later book has fewer readers than the one before it. That's the usual pattern for a long series, and it means the readers still shelving Book 6 are the committed ones.

What is The Moth Reborn about?

The publisher's description opens with the world in chaos. Beyond the Republic of Scion, humans now know that gods walk among them. After months abroad, Paige Mahoney is ready to reunite with Arcturus and finish the fight they started together.

Before going back to Scion, the pair accept an invitation from the Ranthen, who are choosing their new leader in Iceland. The night ends in violence, and Paige is forced to go on the run through the Alps, the labyrinths of Lyon and further afield.

Along the way she has to solve the mystery of her own existence and the origins of clairvoyance if she wants to save the revolution. The blurb promises that alliances will be tested, hearts will be shattered and ancient truths will be unearthed (source).

The US description on NetGalley widens the map further. It describes Paige taking the fight against Scion across continents, and it mentions a dystopian New York run by both gods and monsters (source). Paige has spent five books being hunted by someone, and it sounds as though the list of places willing to host her is still shrinking.

Is The Moth Reborn the last Bone Season book?

No. Samantha Shannon's own page describes it as "the sixth and penultimate novel" in the New York Times bestselling Bone Season series (source). Amazon.com also calls it the "penultimate novel" (source).

The Goodreads series page lists a seventh book, still untitled, described as the final book in the series (source). Anyone who follows long series knows what the word penultimate really means: one more wait after this one.

The Goodreads book page carries the same publisher-style blurb, calling it the "epic and heartbreaking penultimate novel" in the series, alongside quotes from Grazia and Andy Serkis (source). That word heartbreaking is doing a lot of work in a book that already promises shattered hearts.

How long is The Moth Reborn, and is there an audiobook?

The page counts don't match yet. Amazon UK lists the book at 608 pages (source), and Amazon Canada gives the US edition the same length (source). Google Books lists it at 368 pages (source). Two retailers agree on 608, but treat any figure as provisional until the book is out.

There is an audiobook. It's narrated by Alana Kerr Collins (source). Audible lists it at about 15 hours and 1 minute, with the same release date as the US hardcover (source).

The Bone Season series so far

Here's a spoiler-light look at the first five books, built from what each one sets up rather than how it ends.

1. The Bone Season introduces the year 2059, when several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, working in the criminal underworld of Scion London with a secret cell called the Seven Seals. When she's arrested, she's taken to a prison city in Oxford, erased from the map two centuries earlier and controlled by an otherworldly race called the Rephaim.
2. The Mime Order finds Paige back in London as a fugitive with a new taste for revolution. To keep her place in the underworld she has to return to her charismatic and brutal employer, Jaxon Hall, while plotting to win the fabled Rose Crown and expose the corruption in the syndicate.
3. The Song Rising sees Paige rise to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling London's criminal population. She has turned her back on Jaxon, enemies are still at large, and a deadly new technology called Senshield threatens the whole clairvoyant community.
4. The Mask Falling moves the story to the Scion Citadel of Paris, where Paige sits in a safe house between factions that want Scion to fall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire. The mysterious Domino Programme has plans for her, and with Arcturus Mesarthim, her former enemy, at her side, she travels from the catacombs of Paris to Versailles.
5. The Dark Mirror opens with Paige outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade, with half a year wiped from her memory. Her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret, and she has to help the Domino Programme unravel Operation Ventriloquist. Arcturus may be the one person who can recover her memories.

Spoiler recap: where things stand going into Book 6

If you haven't caught up yet, skip this section, because the setup for Book 6 gives away some of where Book 5 leaves things.

By the start of The Moth Reborn, the secret is out: humans beyond Scion now know that gods walk among them. Paige has spent months abroad and is ready to reunite with Arcturus, which tells you the two have been apart for a while. The Ranthen are choosing a new leader, and the gathering in Iceland is where the trouble begins (source).

Do I need to read the earlier Bone Season books first?

Yes. This is a continuous story, and the blurb for Book 6 leans on everything that came before: Paige's history with Arcturus, the Ranthen, the revolution against Scion and the questions about clairvoyance that have been building since Oxford. Starting here would be like walking into the last hour of a very long dinner party and being asked to pick a side.

Start with The Bone Season and read in publication order. The full The Bone Season reading order is on our series page, with every book and its date in one place.

If you read the earlier books a while ago, a reread of The Dark Mirror is probably the most useful refresher, since Book 6 picks up from the months after it.

How do I find out when there's news about The Moth Reborn?

The simplest thing is to shelve it as want-to-read on Goodreads or StoryGraph so it stays on your radar. Those pages won't always tell you when a date shifts, though, and with listings already disagreeing by a few days, that's worth keeping an eye on.

AuthorPing notifies you when a series or author you love has a new book coming out and shows a countdown to every release, so you'll hear about Book 6 and the final Bone Season book without having to go looking. It's free on iPhone and Android.