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About the Books
Title: ARCHIBALD LOX AND THE FORGOTTEN CRYPT (Archibald
Lox #4)
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.
Title: ARCHIBALD LOX AND THE SLIDES OF BON
REPELL (Archibald Lox #5)
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.
Title: ARCHIBALD LOX AND THE RUBICON DICTATE
(Archibald
Lox #6)
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.
Addicted to Media reviews
It's no secret that I'm a fan of this series. Click through below for links to all previous reviews.
Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between Worlds (Archibald Lox #1)
Archibald Lox and the Empress of Suanpan (Archibald Lox #2)
Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment (Archibald Lox #3)
Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt (Archibald Lox #4)
Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between Worlds
Excerpt
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.
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.
Tour Schedule
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