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New LADY MIDNIGHT Snippet shows Julian’s emotional struggle

Julian’s emotional struggle is at the forefront in this Lady Midnight snippet

If you have siblings then you probably have an understanding of what it’s like to be forthright with them, especially when you know it could hurt their feelings, or you know you’re the one protecting them.  And in this latest snippet from Cassandra Clare‘s Lady Midnight, she brings that to light with Julian’s emotional struggle.

We read Julian and Ty in the middle of a conversation and it seems that Julian wants to ask Ty something, but knows that in asking it, it could be more trouble than it’s worth.

Ty lifted his face. He’d always had delicate features, more elfin than Helen or Mark’s. His father had said he was a throwback to earlier generations of Blackthorns, and he looked not unlike some of the family portraits in the dining room they rarely used, slender Victorian men in tailored clothes with porcelain faces and black, curling hair and names like Jesse and Rupert. “Then what is it?”

Julian hesitated. The whole house was still. He could hear the faint crackle of the computer on the other side of the door.

He had thought about asking Ty to look into the poison. But that would require him to say,  I should be dead. The words wouldn’t come. They were like a dam, and behind them were so many other words: I’m not sure about anything. I hate being in charge. I hate making the decisions. I’m terrified you’ll all learn to hate me. I’m terrified of losing you. I’m terrified of losing Mark. I’m terrified of losing Emma. I want someone to take over. I’m not as strong as you think. The things I want are wrong and broken things to want.

He knew he could say none of this. The façade he showed them, his children, had to be perfect: a crack in him would be like a crack in the world to them.

“You know I love you,” he said, instead, and Ty looked up at him, startled, meeting his gaze for a flicker of a moment.

it’s moments like this one that we as fans tend to freak out a bit and why we create such terms as “squee” and “omg” or in this case, “bta”.  So, let us fangirl/fanboy about this and wait for another snippet from the queen of heartbreak.

Lady Midnight comes out March 8, 2016.

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By Kait

Kait is a New Englander, a YA book and adaptation lover, and a Slythindor, as well as a red velvet and red wine enthusiast. She likes to like things. Catch her on Twitter: @kaitmary