Julie Kagawa's silence is no more! Today she shared a picture of the cover to The Forever Song, book three and final installment in the Blood of Eden series. She also had the grace to share a lovely teaser with us :)
It is very simple like the other books of the series, but I love the birds and the infinite symbol they make. Cheesy? Maybe, but I like it. Now, JK said she cried while writing this book. THAT has me severely worried. She's going to kill someone. I think. Zeke? Maybe Allie (won't ever make the mistake that a author won't kill their main character again, you know what I'm talking about)? For gods sake please not Jackal or Kanin either. I can't wait for this book, but now I am very, very scared.
Also, as you can see, the cover says that there will be a sneak peek at Talon at the end of the book, which I believe is the first book to Julie's new series on...dragons.
Well I'll post the teaser Julie posted on her blog here for everyone to see, and link to the original blog post will be after the excerpt. Enjoy!
The smell of blood grew
thicker once we were past the wall, though nothing moved on the narrow path
that snaked between houses. The flimsy
wood and tin shanties were silent, dark, as we ventured deeper, passing snow
covered porches and empty chairs.
Everything looked intact, undisturbed.
There were no bodies. No corpses
mutilated in their beds, no blood spattered over the walls of the few homes we
ducked into. There weren't even any dead
animals in the tiny, trampled pasture past the main strip. Just snow, and dark, and emptiness.
And yet, the smell of blood soaked this place, hanging
thick on the air, making my stomach ache and the Hunger roar to life. I bit it down, clenching my jaw to keep from
snarling in frustration. It had been too
long. I needed food. The scent of blood was driving me crazy, and
the fact that there were no humans here made me furious. Where were they? It wasn't possible that an entire outpost of
mortals would up and disappear without a trace.
And then, as we followed the path around the pasture and
up to the huge barn at the top of the rise, we found the townspeople.
A massive, barren tree stood beside the barn, twisted
branches clawing at the sky. They
creaked and swayed beneath the weight of dozens of bodies, hanging upside down
from ropes tied to the limbs. Men,
women, even a few kids, swinging in the breeze, dangling arms stiff and white. Their throats had been cut, and the base of
the tree was stained black, the blood spilled and wasted in the snow. But the smell nearly knocked me over
regardless, and I clenched my fists, the Hunger raking my insides with fiery
talons.
"Well," Jackal muttered, crossing his arms and
gazing up at the tree, "isn't that festive." His voice was tight, as if he too, was on the
edge of losing it. "I'm guessing
this is the reason we haven't found a single bloodbag from here all the way
back to New Covington." He growled,
shaking his head, lips curling back from his fangs. "This guy is really starting to piss me
off."
I swallowed the Hunger, trying to focus through the gnawing
ache. "Why James, don't tell me you
feel sorry for the walking meatsacks," I taunted, because sometimes,
goading Jackal was the only thing that kept my mind off everything else. He snorted and rolled his eyes.
"No, sister, I'm annoyed
because they don't have the decency to be alive so I can eat them."
Hahaha, Jackal <3
Link to JK's Blog Post: http://juliekagawa.blogspot.com/2014/01/cover-reveal-forever-song.html
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