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Excerpt from The Iron Knight: Page 299-300
Excerpt from The Iron Knight: Page 299-300
A frantic beeping dragged me out of a comfortable sleep. Groggily,
I raised myself up, being careful not to disturb Meghan, and reached for the
phone on the end table. The glowing blue numbers on the screen proclaimed it
2:12 a.m., and that Glitch was going to die for waking me up like this.
I pressed the button, put the phone to my ear and growled:
“Someone better be dead.”
“Sorry, highness.” Glitch’s voice hissed in my ear, whispering loudly.
“But we have a problem. Is the queen still asleep?”
I was instantly awake. “Yes,” I murmured, throwing back the covers
and rising from the bed. The Iron Queen was a somewhat heavy sleeper, often
exhausted by the demands of ruling a kingdom, and tended to be cranky when
woken up in the middle of the night. After getting snarled at several times for
a middle-of-the-night emergency, Glitch started directing all midnight problems
to me. Between us, we were usually able to handle the situation before the
queen knew something was wrong.
“What’s going on?” I asked, shrugging
into my clothes while still pressing the phone to my ear with a shoulder.
Glitch gave a half angry, half fearful sigh.
“Kierran has run off again.”
“What?”
“His room was empty, and we think he managed to slip over the
wall. I have four squads out looking for him, but I thought you should know
your son has pulled another vanishing act.”
I groaned and scrubbed a hand across my face. “Get the gliders
ready. I’ll be right there.”
Julie's explanation...
This scene from The Iron Knight is the most prescient of things to come. Although it is from a vision itself and may or may not actually come to pass, it shows the nature of a very important character in The Lost Prince and hints at conflicts yet to come. I hope you enjoy it!
The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa
Don't look at Them. Never let Them know you can see Them. That is Ethan Chase's unbreakable rule. Until the fey he avoids at all costs—including his reputation—begin to disappear, and Ethan is attacked. Now he must change the rules to protect his family. To save a girl he never thought he'd dare to fall for.
Ethan thought he had protected himself from his older sister's world—the land of Faery. His previous time in the Iron Realm left him with nothing but fear and disgust for the world Meghan Chase has made her home, a land of myth and talking cats, of magic and seductive enemies. But when destiny comes for Ethan, there is no escape from a danger long, long forgotten.
About the Iron Fey series...
The Iron Fey saga follows half-human, half-faery Meghan Chase as she fights to claim her magical birthright.
Meghan’s journey begins in the mortal world, when her half-brother Ethan is kidnapped. The mission to rescue the innocent child draws Meghan into the Nevernever—the magical world—where the never-before-seen Iron fey are raining destruction upon traditional faeries. Meghan’s quest is fraught with unimagined dangers, unpredictable powers…and an utterly forbidden love.
Now little Ethan is all grown up—and a new breed of fey has come for him. Bound by blood to a world he despises, Ethan plunges into the Nevernever searching for answers: who are the ghostly assassins hunting him? Who controls them? And why are exiled and half-breed faeries vanishing from the mortal world?
With a vulnerable human girl to protect and an enigmatic faery ally he could never have imagined, Ethan embarks on his own Fey saga. Along the way he will encounter kin, comrades and deadly new enemies. He will discover his formidable strengths, and his deepest weaknesses—and he will fight for his life against the Forgotten.
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Hi! I absolutely enjoyed The Iron Knight immensely, it had to be my favorite book out of the series! I was one of the lucky few to read The Lost Prince ARC before it came out and it was absolutely amazing! (:
ReplyDeleteI just love Julie's writing. It totally hooks you in.
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