{"id":30128,"date":"2015-09-23T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=30128"},"modified":"2015-09-20T22:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T10:01:18","slug":"side-by-side-fun-uk-new-us-covers-the-gathering-of-the-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/09\/23\/side-by-side-fun-uk-new-us-covers-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Side By Side Fun: UK & (New) US Covers — “The Gathering Of The Lost”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just for fun I\u2019m running The Wall Of Night<\/a> series covers side by side this week \u2014 with an extract from each book for added awesome. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

The Heir of Night<\/em><\/strong> was up Monday and Daughter Of Blood<\/strong><\/em> is forthcoming on Friday — but today is The Gathering Of The Lost’s<\/a><\/em> turn to star:
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\"UK\/AU\/NZ\"<\/a>

UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n

\"USA\"<\/a>

USA<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nIn The Cavern Of Sleepers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Malian’s dream was darkness: blackness without stars, water without light, a tower without a shadow that she remembered climbing\u2014but that too fell away as she plummeted, diving head first through the dream. She kept her eyes open, remembering the crow in the shadow tower, the one that had told her this was something she would need to learn how to do.<\/em><\/p>\n

The crow had been right, Malian thought, not that it helped when the universe of her dream was devoid of light.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not the eyes.\u201d The voice of Nhenir, the legendary helm that had once belonged to Yorindesarinen, the greatest of all Derai heroes, was a mixture of light and dark, speaking into Malian’s mind. \u201cYour inner awareness must be open: you must learn to eat the dark lest it eat you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Malian did not answer as she plunged deeper, and then deeper again into the well of her dream. Mind, heart and soul, she felt as if she were made of darkness\u2014but was that not fitting since her name was Night?<\/em><\/p>\n

She was far, far down in the dream before she saw light, a single star drowned at the bottom of the well. She turned toward it and the light grew, finally becoming a torch that gleamed white in a crystal bracket. Malian caught at it with her mind and stepped forward\u2014into the center of an enormous cave that was ringed with more torches.<\/em><\/p>\n

The cave was so vast that both its roof and the light were lost in the darkness overhead. But the space surrounding Malian was not empty: thousands of warriors lay all around her on stone biers. All were armed, but their helms and weapons, like their companion beasts\u2014horses, hounds, and even the occasional hawk\u2014were disposed around them. They looked exactly, Malian thought, like the depictions of legendary heroes in ancient sepulchres. Yet these warriors were alive: she could see the steady rise and fall of their breath.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAsleep,\u201d Malian whispered, \u201cthey\u2019re all asleep.\u201d “<\/em><\/p>\n

~\u00a0 from \u00a9 The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just for fun I\u2019m running The Wall Of Night series covers side by side this week \u2014 with an extract from each book for added awesome. \ud83d\ude09 The Heir of Night was up Monday and Daughter Of Blood is forthcoming on Friday — but today is The Gathering Of The Lost’s turn to star: . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30128"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30136,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128\/revisions\/30136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}