Sudden Backtrack: A Hollows Short
By Kim Harrison
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the ever-after one last time in this never-before-published short story!
The origins of the elf and demon war have been shrouded – until now. Told from a demon’s point of view, join Al as he helps Newt spin the curse that caused the elven downfall… and perhaps holds the beginnings of their own reclamations.
Kim Harrison
Kim Harrison is best known as the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollows series, but she has written more than urban fantasy and has published more than two dozen books, spanning the gamut from young adult, accelerated-science thriller, and several anthologies and has scripted two original graphic novels set in the Hollows universe. She has also published traditional fantasy under the name Dawn Cook. Kim is currently working on a new Hollows book between other, nonrelated, urban fantasy projects.
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Reviews for Sudden Backtrack
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An interesting piece to fill in the story. I enjoyed it even more, reading it after Turn.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5VERY short prequel story from the Hollows which takes place at the time the elves were cursed by the demons, and why. Both Newt and Al (Gally) are involved and I’m now left wondering…okay, I won’t go there. It seems there is so much more we can learn about their history.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Worth the $.99 just for the new backstory, but all this did was make me want a spin-off series that goes back even before that era and brings us up to Rachel and Trent's generation. Maybe one day....
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A short story set far in the Hollows past about the demons under the rule of the Elves. Explains some things about Newt, and the way the demons were treated back then. A fun read that I gobbled up greedily, but as the demons and the mechanics of the past were my favorite parts of the Hollows, I wish it were longer or that there were more stories like this.
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Sudden Backtrack - Kim Harrison
CONTENTS
Sudden Backtrack
About the Author
Books by Kim Harrison
Copyright
About the Publisher
SUDDEN BACKTRACK
"That’s not Peth. That’s Kalla." The hunter’s name slipped from Gally with an oily hatred, hot and simmering, just below the point of ignition. His hand clenched until the scars pulled, and Newt, standing beside him under the moonlit, fog-coated trees in the ever-after, turned with a smirk on her hunger-gaunt face.
You didn’t really believe they’d give us the courtesy of a conversation, did you?
Yes. Yes, I did.
A flash of fond pity crossed her red, goat-slitted eyes. They’ll never live up to your ideals, Gally. Their nobility is an ugly mask.
Indignant, he stared at her. I don’t call them noble. They’re animals. Only animals can do the things they do.
That’s why they’d tried to kill them in the first place—and failed, failed miserably because of an ill-placed trust in a dream called the Goddess. There was no Goddess. Nothing could be that cruel."
And yet you expect them to hold to their word. They still have a veil before your eyes, Gally. Break it. See them for what they are.
He knew what they were, and rubbing the tip of his severed thumb, he turned away, sending a questing thought out to find the six, no seven, other souls circling them, readying a trap. That’s all Kalla was here for, really, a margin of profit and a