I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the ARCHIBALD LOX VOLUME 2: ARCHIBALD LOX AND THE KIDNAPPED PRINCE by Darren
Shan Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar
Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About the Books:
Author: Darren Shan
Pub. Date: July 1, 2021
Publisher: Home of the Damned Ltd
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 144
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD
When a couple of assassins catch up with Archie, he's forced to flee to the Merge in search of friendship and safety.
As his skills develop, he opens a gateway to a long-forgotten crypt, where
ancient secrets are revealed.
In a city of ice, the greatest gropsters of the six realms have assembled for a
legendary Tourney, but a small group of plotters are more interested in
kidnapping...
Book four of the Archibald Lox series by Darren Shan, the New York Times
bestselling author of Cirque Du Freak and Lord Loss.
This is the first of three books in VOLUME TWO of the series.
Author: Darren Shan
Pub. Date: August 3, 2021
Publisher: Home of the Damned Ltd
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 197
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo
The Tourney has kicked off, and it's the biggest draw in the Merge.
Archie has a ticket to every match, and is soon caught up in the excitement.
But when a scheming king sets his sights on the young locksmith, all thoughts
of grop are swiftly forgotten, and Archie might fight for his freedom and his
sanity...
Book five of the Archibald Lox series by Darren Shan, the New York Times
bestselling author of Cirque Du Freak and Lord Loss.
This is the second of three books in VOLUME TWO of the series.
Author: Darren Shan
Pub. Date: September 1, 2021
Publisher: Home of the Damned Ltd
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 211
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, iBooks, Kobo
The kidnapping of a prince shocks the Merge and turns the Tourney on its head.
In New York, a desperate Archie and Inez play a cunning game of chess with the
fates.
But if they are to force a checkmate, they must travel to the heart of an enemy
empire and face down the rulers of a merciless realm...
Book six of the Archibald Lox series by Darren Shan, the New York Times
bestselling author of Cirque Du Freak and Lord Loss.
This is the third of three books in VOLUME TWO of the series.
ARCHIBALD LOX EXTRACT
I focus on
the people crossing the bridge. Many are tourists. A few joggers pant past. Men
and women in business suits march by, talking loudly on their phones. Foreign
students on school trips.
And then I
spot the girl.
She’s my
sort of age, darker skinned than me. She has black hair cut short, and wide
brown eyes, dressed in plain cream trousers and a red, long-sleeved top. Her
boots are navy, scuffed and stained with dry mud.
She comes
running along the bridge in a panic, stops near where I’m standing and starts
grimacing bizarrely. Her nose twitches, her lips gurn, her eyebrows shoot up
and down, her tongue flickers out and around.
At first I
think she’s pulling faces at me and I open my mouth to snap at her, but
then she throws a worried – no, terrified – glance backwards, and I
realise she hasn’t even noticed me.
Two men are
striding towards us. They’re dressed in white suits, white shoes and white
ties. One is black, the other pale like me. Both are bald, except for a curved,
thin strip of white hair that arcs across their foreheads, the tips of the
crescents pointing towards the backs of their heads.
The pale man
is holding a long, narrow knife, the sort they called a stiletto in the old
days. The darker man is carrying an axe, swinging it through the air in short,
menacing strokes.
It’s clear
that the men are chasing the girl and will kill her if they catch her.
The girl
gulps, then pulls more faces. She’s staring at the paving slabs. I want to cry
out and warn her of the danger, but she’s obviously aware of the threat. I
can’t understand why she isn’t fleeing, why she’s drawn to a halt and is
wasting precious time pulling those ridiculous faces.
I think
about intervening – I could tug the girl away from the onrushing men and help
her escape – but I’m rigid with fear, breathing shallowly, eyes wide, shocked
by what’s happening.
When the men
are several metres away, a couple of slabs in the bridge shimmer and a hole
yawns open. I think it’s a trick of the light, so I do a double take, but it’s
definitely a hole, a gap where a moment before there had been solid stone.
With a
victorious yelp, the girl throws herself into the hole. The men’s faces twist
with rage and they pick up speed, but the girl yells something, and in an
instant the slabs are back in place.
The hole is
gone.
The bridge
is solid again.
The girl has
disappeared.
About Darren Shan:
Darren Shan is a globally bestselling author who broke onto the fantasy/horror
scene with Cirque Du Freak in January 2000. He has published more than
fifty books, for children and adults, including the 10-book Demonata series
and 12-book Zom-B series. Cirque Du Freak was adapted into
a major Hollywood movie and it was recently announced that the Electric Shadow
Company and Fantastic Films have teamed up to adapt his Zom-B series for
television. Shan’s books have sold more than thirty million copies worldwide,
in 40 countries and 32 languages. He has topped the bestseller charts in the
US, UK, Ireland, Japan, and elsewhere. He lives in a small village in Ireland,
with his wife and children.
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Giveaway Details:
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winner will receive a $10 Amazon GC, International.
3 winners will receive ebooks of ARCHIBALD LOX VOLUME 2, International.
a Rafflecopter giveawayTour Schedule:
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