
While the Queen celebrates, victorious at last. Someplace horrible, where everything we hold dear, everything we love, will be ripped from us while we suffer for all eternity. If you're thinking that you'll never be able to wait until 2018, remember this: The Cosmos Blade, Black's second book of the Magisterium series alongside other YA fantasy queen Cassandra Clare, is set for 2016 to hold you over.Your prison, all of our prisons, will be time. Holly Black writing more of anything at all? Check check.

"This series will delve deeper into the strange, glittering, malicious courts of Faerie than I’ve gone before," Black says in a release to Entertainment Weekly.Īccording to the publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers who scored the deal with Black, The Folk of Air trilogy centers on "a young human girl who witnesses her parents’ deaths and is forcibly taken to Faerieland with her two sisters - one faery, one human - where she will grow up and one day fight to gain power."įemale centered? Check. Black's new The Folk of Air trilogy will go further into this magic and the fae, because she knows just what we readers really want. All along, Hazel and Ben feared the mysterious, dangerous magic the faeries hold, but now they know why. But the peace is destroyed when siblings Hazel and Ben free the boy in a glass coffin with horns on his head, the imprisoned faerie Prince Severin, sparking a war between humans and faeries. The Darkest Part of the Forest introduced YA readers to the Fairfold, a town where humans and magical fae live side by side in an uneasy sort of peace. Books two and three are set for 20, but are currently untitled, and a digital novella is part of the deal as well.

The only downside? We all have to wait until 2018 for the first book, The Cruel Prince. And if you loved her 2015 novel The Darkest Part of the Forest, Black has a gift for you: Black will publish her new The Folk of Air trilogy, a series devoted to delving deeper into the faerie world she introduced in her latest book.

If you know young adult fantasy, you know Holly Black.
