I loved Skin hunger, the first book in Kathleen Duey’s series A resurrection of magic. I loved it so much that it won the Golden BookBoy award for 2008. Here’s what I had to say about it.
The very exciting news is that Sacred scars, book two in the series, is due out in August this year. For my Australian readers, I’m still not sure about an Australian date.
If you can’t wait until then, you can get a little sneak preview over at ipulpfiction.com, which looks to be an interesting site. You’ll need to sign up for an account and although most of the stories cost a small amount, the Sacred scars preview is free. While there, you might like to look around, ipulpfiction is a place to read short stories in an online environment, with stories costing between 25 cents and 1 dollar each.
The preview is brief (5 pages) but if like me, you loved Skin hunger and have been hanging out to see the story continued, it will be enough to get you all excited again.
You can even pre-order it from Amazon if you so desire.
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I wasn’t sure, but my editor said this:
It goes on sale 8/4/09.
I hope you like it as much as you did the first one. I am writing the third one now, just getting it off the ground…
If you ever read Russet’s story, I would love to know what you think. It has been an amazing experiment…
Thanks for writing about books!
Thanks for stopping by Kathleen. I’m pretty sure I’m going to like Sacred scars, don;t worry about that.
I’m enjoying Russet too, but keep missing bits on twitter, so I have to go back to the blog to keep up. I guess that’s the risk with a twitter novel – unless you’re on twitter 24/7, you risk missing bits. But it’s still fun reading it in small chunks on the blog as it unfolds.
I’m also reading with the assumption that you’re essentially writing it as you go, and that’s a fun way to read something.
Yes, it’s real time. Twitter is a noisy, interesting, crowded room. Hard to follow *anything*.
The archive linked here is the easiest way to read Russet. But it’s the Twitter “140 characers or less” format that is the artistic challenge/opportunity. It creates a massive compression of information. There are about 20 pages of actual text. If it was a conventional novel, it’d be 60-80 pages so far, I think. Or more. The plot is a complete surprise to me and I think it is kind of amazing.
Thanks for letting me talk about it here…it’s my new toy!! And now, back to work…
k
they are super books i loved the first book a lot read it twice. I like the girls side of the story the best. ;]