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He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. For a moment, he says, I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.I make a face at him. And what made you decide it wasn’t?He grins up at me. They missed.

Holly Black

He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. For a moment, he says, I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.I make a face at him. And what made you decide it wasn’t?He grins up at me. They missed.

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About Holly Black

Holly Black (née Riggenbach; born November 10, 1971) is an American writer and editor best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her most recent work is the New York Times bestselling young adult Folk of the Air series. She is also well known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and her debut trilogy of young adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales. Black has won an Eisner Award, a Lodestar Award, a Nebula Award, and a Newbery Honor.