Their story continued in The Rising—the third of the Darkness Rising trilogy. I had two groups of kids in the same situation, and brought them together to solve their shared problem. That’s why I left Chloe & Derek on the run. Unfortunately, readers who didn’t move to the Darkness Rising trilogy are still wondering why I never wrapped up that story line. With The Gathering, we really debated calling it the first in a new trilogy or book 4 of the Darkest Powers, and went with a new trilogy, which explains some of the confusion! As in my adult books, while I changed narrators, it was the same series, and the old characters did come back.
I will also be doing a brand-new Chloe & Derek novella online staring in May (free while it’s on my website!) However, it takes place after The Rising, and if readers skip from The Reckoning to the new novella, it’ll be very confusing.
Published on December 13, 2013 11:16