Jade Hears Voices

1. I’m not answering any plot questions that are not addressed in the Scholastic blurb about it SO NICE TRY

2. It’s a standalone trilogy opener, which means that although it references events from TRC, they’re contextualized for new readers, so you can read it without having ever picked up TRC (ALTHOUGH YOU SHOULD). 

3. It is not The Raven Cycle, book 5. It is its own thing, with its own tone, themes, and characters. 

4. Guys, Jordan & Carmen are not the first lady characters I have written. The Raven Boys had many boys, it is true. But if you’d like to read some Stiefvater ladies before November, try one of my 8 other novels.

5. Seriously, guys, no. Ronan is not going to grow out his hair in Call Down the Hawk, and no, Adam is not going to stroke his hands lovingly through it on his birthday, but thanks, I guess, for all the extremely detailed requests? 

6. My favorite character to write in the book was Jordan. No, I’m not telling you anything else about her. There are a billion other new characters in this book not mentioned in the blurb that I am also fond of, but she is my favorite. (Also Lover’s).

7. Yah Adam is in it!

8. YEAH THERE’S KISSES NO I’M NOT TELLING YOU WHO

9. Yes, weirdly aggressive person, Ronan does have a character arc in the book. 

10. YEAH PEOPLE DIE NO I’M NOT TELLING YOU WHO

I’m enjoying my secrecy and writing in a vacuum — I’m finishing book 2 before book 1 comes out so that I don’t feel expectations heavy breathing in my ear as I do. 

But November does feel far away. 

The deluminator. It doesn’t just turn off lights. I don’t know how it worked but Christmas morning, I was sleeping in this little pub, keeping away from some Snatchers, and I heard it. A voice. Your voice, Hermione. You said my name. Just my name. Like a whisper. So I took it, clicked it and this tiny ball of light appeared. And I knew. It flew towards me, the ball of light, right through my chest and straight through me. Right here. [touches his heart] And I knew it was going to take me where I needed to go.

“He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time, and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her “g”s the same way he did.”

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So for my advanced editing class this semester we had to make a “montage edit” where we combine footage/media from 2-3 different sources to create a final product with a completely different intended meaning than the original.