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Monday, November 16, 2015

Read An Excerpt from Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare! / Mundane Monday #263



While we're all patiently waiting for next year's release of LADY MIDNIGHT, Cassandra Clare treated fans to an excerpt of it today. Here's what she said:

Since most of you can’t read Angels Twice Descending until tomorrow, and many of you won’t be able to read it until next year, here’s a thing to tide you over.
This is the chapter sampler of Lady Midnight that was given out at Comicon — it’s not the beginning of the book, but rather Chapter Four. (The “Shadowhunter history in a nutshell — oh, no, faeries” chapter.
Hope you’ll enjoy Emma, Jules, Mark, Ty and the rest, and I’m certainly looking forward to sharing all of LM with you in March!

Read a snippet of the excerpt below:
HIGHBORN KINSMEN
“Now, when were the first Accords signed?” asked Diana. “And what was their effect?”
It was a distractingly bright day. Sunlight poured in through the high windows, illuminating the board in front of which Diana paced, tapping the palm of her left hand with a stele. Her lesson plan was scrawled on the board in nearly illegible handwriting: Emma could make out the words AccordsCold Peace, and evolution of Law.

She looked sideways at Jules, but he had his head bent over some papers. They hadn’t really spoken so far today, aside from being polite to each other at breakfast. She had woken up with her stomach feeling hollow and her hands hurting from clenching the bedclothes.

Also Church had abandoned her sometime during the night. Stupid cat.
“They were signed in 1872,” said Cristina. “They were a series of agreements between the species of the Shadow World and Nephilim, meant to keep the peace among them and establishing common rules for all of them to follow.”

“They also protect Downworlders,” said Julian. “Before the Accords, if Downworlders harmed each other, Shadowhunters couldn’t and wouldn’t step in. The Accords gave Downworlders our protection.” He paused. “At least until the Cold Peace.” 

Emma remembered the first time she had heard of the Cold Peace. She and Julian had been in the Hall of Accords when it was proposed. The punishment of the Faeries for their part in Sebastian Morgenstern’s Dark War. She remembered the confusion of her feelings. Her parents had died because of that war, but how did Mark and Helen, who she loved, deserve to bear the brunt of that simply because of the faerie blood in their veins?

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Read the entire excerpt HERE.

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