Sep09
This is a teaser from Maggie Stiefvater’s BALLAD, a novel involving homicidal faeries and kissing that’s coming out October 1st.He turned towards me. For a long moment, he stood facing me. I was held, anchored to the ground – not by his music, which still called and pushed against the music already in my head and said grow rise follow – but by his strangeness. By his fingers, spread over the ground, holding something into the earth, by his shoulders, squared in a way that spoke of strength and unknowability, and most of all, by the great, thorny antlers that grew from his head, spanning the sky like branches.Then he was gone, and I missed his going in the instant that the sun fell off the edge of the hill, abandoning the world to twilight.
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This sounds like a different book. I might have to look into it..
I just found your blog today and I love it! I love the green and the frog. And I love how you use flys to rate the books.
This sounds soooo good! Man, there are just too many good books out there and definitely not enough time!
I love faires, but i have not read the first book. I really should do that soon!
Okay, I'm hooked.
aww thanks Trish…I love these colors..sage is my favorite!
Krista..omg I know what you mean! I have a bookcase by my bed full of books i need to read..plus a huge one in the loft full too…and another in the den! I will never get these read if i keep buying tons more!
This book does look good…
I haven't read the first book yet, but it certainly sounds good!
Ohmygosh, I really wanna read this book!