The first taste is always free
I didn’t really realize how much I was jonesing for a fix of The Codex Alera till last night, when I saw that Jim Butcher had started posting sample chapters of Princeps’ Fury, the next book in the series. The prologue went up on Tuesday, and he’ll be posting another chapter every week till the end of October. (And then, if this year is anything ( Read more... )
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We’re helping out with the harvest festival at church tonight, so I don’t have any candy to give you. But here’s a snippet from one of my favorite scenes in The Codex Alera:
Tavi jerked the cord. The pin snapped free. The mechanism bucked in place as its arm snapped forward, and threw the stone into a sharp arc that sent the missile soaring into the air. It clipped a few stones from the top of a ruined wall, and arched over a low hilltop and dropped out of sight on the other side.
Magnus let out a whoop and capered about in a spontaneous dance, waving his arms. “Hah! It works! Hah! A madman, am I?”
Tavi let out an excited laugh of his own and began to ask Magnus how far he thought the engine had thrown the stone, but then he heard something and snapped his head around to focus on the sound.
Somewhere on the other side of the hill, a man howled a string of sulfurous curses that rose into the midmorning spring sky.
(It comes from Cursor’s Fury, the third book in the series.)
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And the doggies are just random internet doggies. :)
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