Sarah Rees Brennan's the Demon's Covenant: Awesome Kettle-Wielding Skills

It takes Sarah Rees Brennan a little under a year to put out a new book, unlike some authors who shall not be named *cough Megan Whalen Turner cough* and after the suspense of her last book, as far as I’m concerned, this makes her a semi-divine being.  To my everlasting sadness, however, I wasn’t in town for the release of the The Demon's Covenant, and the mean, nasty new manager at the local indy bookstore wouldn’t let me pick up my copy a few days early.  Seriously, I know they had it.  The woman pulled it out from behind the counter and taunted me with it, the big meanie.

And since I’m applying to work there this summer, I’m now really glad no one knows my real name on the web.

Now that Nick knows the truth about who and what he is, and Jamie’s as safe as anyone else from demons, Mae has been trying to settle back into a normal life.  But she keeps remembering Alan, and Nick, and the Goblin Market and the dancing, and her normal life seems just out of reach.  Soon the choice to be normal is taken from her in the worst way possible, as her brother Jamie’s latent magical abilities bring their old enemies, the Obsidian Circle, out of the woodwork to recruit him, and she has to call on Nick and Alan to get them out of trouble again.  But with Gerald, the new head of the Obsidian Circle, just salivating at the prospect of capturing Nick, and getting clever and inventing new marks, Mae, Jamie, Nick, and Alan could be in more trouble than they can handle.

( Can’t spell “Demon” without “emo” )

Sarah Rees Brennan can be found online at her livejournal, sarahtales .  Check it out.  She has free short stories set in the Demon’s Lexicon/Covenant universe posted there.  Helps tide you over until the next book, and trust me, with these books, you’ll need some serious tiding over.