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The Iron Covenant #2
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The story of Elara Harper.
Second book in the Iron Covenant trilogy.
DELAYED
Hugh’s second book, IRON COVENANT #2, has been delayed because it’s grim and right now the world is grim enough.
Second book in the Iron Covenant trilogy.
DELAYED
Hugh’s second book, IRON COVENANT #2, has been delayed because it’s grim and right now the world is grim enough.
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Ilona Andrews
145 books33.3k followersIlona Andrews is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian and Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army. Contrary to popular belief, Gordon was never an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was never the mysterious Russian spy who seduced him. They met in college, in English Composition 101, where Ilona got a better grade. (Gordon is still sore about that.)
Gordon and Ilona currently reside in Oregon with their two children, three dogs and a cat. They have co-authored two series, the bestselling urban fantasy of Kate Daniels and romantic urban fantasy of The Edge.
Gordon and Ilona currently reside in Oregon with their two children, three dogs and a cat. They have co-authored two series, the bestselling urban fantasy of Kate Daniels and romantic urban fantasy of The Edge.
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January 13, 2025January 2025:
A full prologue? Chapter 1?
March 2024:
It's finally coming!!!!!
In 2025.
Second or third quarter.
Jan. 25, 2021: it's happening. Not super very soon, but it IS bloody shrimping happening. FINALLY.
September 19, 2019: shock! Dismay! Dispair! Utter flabbergastation! The book probably won't be released until 2020!
April 10, 2019: release has been pushed back to December 2019!!! Woe is me, sob sob sob and stuff!!!
February 11, 2019: we have a release date!!!!!!!!!!!!!! October 15, 2019 it is!!!!!!!!!!
The story of Elara Harper.
THE. STORY. OF. ELARA. HARPER.
· Book 1: Iron and Magic ★★★★★
A full prologue? Chapter 1?
March 2024:
It's finally coming!!!!!
In 2025.
Second or third quarter.
Jan. 25, 2021: it's happening. Not super very soon, but it IS bloody shrimping happening. FINALLY.
September 19, 2019: shock! Dismay! Dispair! Utter flabbergastation! The book probably won't be released until 2020!
April 10, 2019: release has been pushed back to December 2019!!! Woe is me, sob sob sob and stuff!!!
February 11, 2019: we have a release date!!!!!!!!!!!!!! October 15, 2019 it is!!!!!!!!!!
The story of Elara Harper.
THE. STORY. OF. ELARA. HARPER.
· Book 1: Iron and Magic ★★★★★
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July 2, 2018Three questions that still need answers:
Who is Elara?
What is Elara?
Why is Elara?
I CAN'T WAIT!!
Who is Elara?
What is Elara?
Why is Elara?
I CAN'T WAIT!!
Want to read
November 18, 202118/11/21
Tea with Hugh and Roman!
https://www.ilona-andrews.com/2021/do...
6/4/21
Mystery snippet! I believe it's either here or Aurelia 2.
https://www.ilona-andrews.com/2021/we...
26/4/20
All Ryder/Julie snippets moved to it's proper book placement on GR:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
But kept here also in the spoiler just in case it all gets deleted. It's happened before..
Update! 3/3/2020
On here just as a place holder, will move it when the book is created on GR officially but we have a snippet for ROMAN!! And what a snippet it is! YAY!
https://ilona-andrews.com/a-bit-more-...
Update! 20/4/2019
So I just found out that we are not getting a Julie/Erra/Derek spinoff (at this point in time) because of the amount of hate mail Ilona Andrews receives over Julie.
Some of us love all the characters because the writing/world building/authors are so good and we would have loved a Julie spinoff. I can't wrap my head around this and I had actually written a rather long rant over it..
I just want to say that it's a damn shame that some people have made the authors feel this bad over a character. And to the Authorlords, I'm so so sorry they made you feel this way..
Direct quote from their website: http://www.ilona-andrews.com/braining...
[..] Long story short, we get Julie hatemail. Half want bad things to happen to Julie. They literally hate her and want her to die. The other variation of the hatemail is, “I am just not interested in Julie as a character and I don’t think she could carry a book.” Right, because despite writing 12 books set in this world, all of which succeeded in being entertaining, we will lose all of ability to tell a compelling story just because Julie is the main character.
It actually resulted in Brandi having second thoughts about publishing her own work. She isn’t sure she would be willing to put up with all the venom.
We had definite plans for a continuation of the storyline, picking it up with Julie as the main character roughly 8 years after the events of Magic Triumphs. The world is even more warped by magic, Conlan is 10, Jim is ready to retire, and the battle for the Pack is about to start. We have chunks of the first book plotted. We spared some characters in Magic Triumphs so they could return in the sequel. However, I’m not going to do it.
Writing comes from the same place as play. Right now if we sit down and write Julie, she won’t be true to the original vision of the character. There is a lot more depth and layers there than in Ascanio, for example, who is at the core a simple character. I don’t feel like working with her until I’m sure we can do her justice. So that trilogy and any other work in KD world, except for Iron Covenant, is indefinitely on hold. That might change tomorrow, but probably not. 🙂
31/12/18
My look of anticipation after reading the first one.
Tea with Hugh and Roman!
https://www.ilona-andrews.com/2021/do...
6/4/21
Mystery snippet! I believe it's either here or Aurelia 2.
https://www.ilona-andrews.com/2021/we...
26/4/20
All Ryder/Julie snippets moved to it's proper book placement on GR:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
But kept here also in the spoiler just in case it all gets deleted. It's happened before..
Update! 3/3/2020
On here just as a place holder, will move it when the book is created on GR officially but we have a snippet for ROMAN!! And what a snippet it is! YAY!
https://ilona-andrews.com/a-bit-more-...
Update! 20/4/2019
So I just found out that we are not getting a Julie/Erra/Derek spinoff (at this point in time) because of the amount of hate mail Ilona Andrews receives over Julie.
Some of us love all the characters because the writing/world building/authors are so good and we would have loved a Julie spinoff. I can't wrap my head around this and I had actually written a rather long rant over it..
I just want to say that it's a damn shame that some people have made the authors feel this bad over a character. And to the Authorlords, I'm so so sorry they made you feel this way..
Direct quote from their website: http://www.ilona-andrews.com/braining...
[..] Long story short, we get Julie hatemail. Half want bad things to happen to Julie. They literally hate her and want her to die. The other variation of the hatemail is, “I am just not interested in Julie as a character and I don’t think she could carry a book.” Right, because despite writing 12 books set in this world, all of which succeeded in being entertaining, we will lose all of ability to tell a compelling story just because Julie is the main character.
It actually resulted in Brandi having second thoughts about publishing her own work. She isn’t sure she would be willing to put up with all the venom.
We had definite plans for a continuation of the storyline, picking it up with Julie as the main character roughly 8 years after the events of Magic Triumphs. The world is even more warped by magic, Conlan is 10, Jim is ready to retire, and the battle for the Pack is about to start. We have chunks of the first book plotted. We spared some characters in Magic Triumphs so they could return in the sequel. However, I’m not going to do it.
Writing comes from the same place as play. Right now if we sit down and write Julie, she won’t be true to the original vision of the character. There is a lot more depth and layers there than in Ascanio, for example, who is at the core a simple character. I don’t feel like working with her until I’m sure we can do her justice. So that trilogy and any other work in KD world, except for Iron Covenant, is indefinitely on hold. That might change tomorrow, but probably not. 🙂
31/12/18
My look of anticipation after reading the first one.
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March 7, 2020Title to be determined , DELAYED
BRING MORE COWS!
Hehehehe (...evil laugh)
BRING MORE COWS!
Hehehehe (...evil laugh)
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September 22, 2018The story of Elara Harper? I'm sorry, who is Ms. Elara Harper? You must surely mean Mrs. Elara d'Ambray.
Just kidding. Can't wait to read this.
Just kidding. Can't wait to read this.
to-be-released
August 31, 2018How do I get a copy of a book that hasn't been written yet? To which God do I make the human sacrifice?
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July 15, 2022NEED, NEED, NEED this book right now!!!!
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March 23, 2021July 2, 2018
YASSSSSSSS YAS YASSSSSSS
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
April 15, 2019
Is been pushed to December now 😭😭
January 28, 2020
No idea when it’s coming out 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
December 4, 2020
“Published 2022”
If you listen very closely, you can hear the sound of my despair echoing in the wind.
YASSSSSSSS YAS YASSSSSSS
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
April 15, 2019
Is been pushed to December now 😭😭
January 28, 2020
No idea when it’s coming out 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
December 4, 2020
“Published 2022”
If you listen very closely, you can hear the sound of my despair echoing in the wind.
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July 12, 2018I want to know who Rook is.
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March 19, 2020Elara's book!!
I mean.........
Do you understand how excited I am?
I am freaking the hell out and it doesn't even have a title yet....
This is not going to go well for me.
.
.
.
.
.
This is an actual clip of me waiting for this book to be released.
I mean......
Please?
(Update- 03-2020)
I mean.........
Do you understand how excited I am?
I am freaking the hell out and it doesn't even have a title yet....
This is not going to go well for me.
.
.
.
.
.
This is an actual clip of me waiting for this book to be released.
I mean......
Please?
(Update- 03-2020)
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September 2, 2018Elara's story? Yes! Yes! YES! I can't bloody wait!!!
cant-wait-to-read
December 11, 2022Bekleyişin 5. yılına doğru editi: Beklerken yaşlandığım birkaç seri var cidden, bu da o listenin başlarında...
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September 6, 2020Two years later, I’m still thinking about this book! It hasn't had a release date for a while now. From the IA website: Hugh’s second book, IRON COVENANT #2, has been delayed because it’s grim and right now the world is grim enough.
Is it totally weird that I’m even more excited now?
I get it though, times are strange and scary and that probably isn’t conducive to sinking deep into the black hole that is necessary to write a grim book. We don’t want IA depressed or burned out. I'm not sure if the grimness mentioned referred to COVID though, seeing as how IA wrote this on the blog back in november 2019:
The release page is up to date. We haven’t started IRON COVENANT #2, because we are busy writing sequel to SAPPHIRE FLAMES. It was delayed because of the medical emergency in the family. When we have some concrete dates, we will list them on the release page. Thank you.
Well, the world hasn't exactly gotten less grim since the fall of 2019.
EDIT: Yes, they meant the corona crisis. Here's what IA wrote in May 2020: We were scheduled to start IRON COVENANT #2, but it was a very dark book by necessity. A major character dies, and it’s a heavy story. I don’t know about you, but I’m not dealing with the pandemic that well. Thinking about writing it was just too depressing. We wrote the first chapter of RYDER as a present to KD fans, because we were getting a lot of emails about how tough things were and how nice it would be to revisit KD. The plan was to stop at that one chapter and then we got an email from a nurse who works in ICU in New York. So we did another chapter. Long story short, RYDER is now on schedule with the prospective release date in the first quarter of 2021 because too much work has gone into it to just walk away.
Aw, this is so nice! I hope the pandemic gets fixed soon (me and everyone on the planet). IA are in Texas and the pandemic raged pretty badly over there. I read somewhere that even one of their daughters got COVID. This was on top of Ilona writing about feeling burned out in February, so shortly before the pandemic reached America. I have a feeling this book could take a while, but you know, a delayed book isn't the weirdest thing right now. Hopefully, IA will be able to write IC#2 at some point. I’ll be patient. And excited. And patient. :)
Signed, happy member of the Book Devouring Horde.
Is it totally weird that I’m even more excited now?
I get it though, times are strange and scary and that probably isn’t conducive to sinking deep into the black hole that is necessary to write a grim book. We don’t want IA depressed or burned out. I'm not sure if the grimness mentioned referred to COVID though, seeing as how IA wrote this on the blog back in november 2019:
The release page is up to date. We haven’t started IRON COVENANT #2, because we are busy writing sequel to SAPPHIRE FLAMES. It was delayed because of the medical emergency in the family. When we have some concrete dates, we will list them on the release page. Thank you.
Well, the world hasn't exactly gotten less grim since the fall of 2019.
EDIT: Yes, they meant the corona crisis. Here's what IA wrote in May 2020: We were scheduled to start IRON COVENANT #2, but it was a very dark book by necessity. A major character dies, and it’s a heavy story. I don’t know about you, but I’m not dealing with the pandemic that well. Thinking about writing it was just too depressing. We wrote the first chapter of RYDER as a present to KD fans, because we were getting a lot of emails about how tough things were and how nice it would be to revisit KD. The plan was to stop at that one chapter and then we got an email from a nurse who works in ICU in New York. So we did another chapter. Long story short, RYDER is now on schedule with the prospective release date in the first quarter of 2021 because too much work has gone into it to just walk away.
Aw, this is so nice! I hope the pandemic gets fixed soon (me and everyone on the planet). IA are in Texas and the pandemic raged pretty badly over there. I read somewhere that even one of their daughters got COVID. This was on top of Ilona writing about feeling burned out in February, so shortly before the pandemic reached America. I have a feeling this book could take a while, but you know, a delayed book isn't the weirdest thing right now. Hopefully, IA will be able to write IC#2 at some point. I’ll be patient. And excited. And patient. :)
Signed, happy member of the Book Devouring Horde.
to-be-released
July 2, 2018Excuse me? What? Did they just fucking say Elara Harper's Story?!
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September 2, 2020ITS BEEN TWO YEARS AND I STILL THINK ABOUT HUGH AND ELARA. When will we get number 2? 😭🙏🏼🙏🏼 please Illona Andrews please
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August 29, 2018Story line in Triumphs about Hugh and Elara helping with final battle. Bookmark in chapter 14 for his entry into book. Read from there, plus 15, 16.
After end battle: "H & Elara survived and returned to their castle. H didn't heal Dali (to get pregnant). Jim asked her to delay 6 months."
In Erra's part of epilogue, she and Julie talk about bringing H to Mishmar to visit his grandmother. (As if he really was Roland's son). Erra, "The boy would need to meet his grandmother at some point. But right now, he had his hands full and I doubted his wife would appreciate us dragging him off on family business."
After end battle: "H & Elara survived and returned to their castle. H didn't heal Dali (to get pregnant). Jim asked her to delay 6 months."
In Erra's part of epilogue, she and Julie talk about bringing H to Mishmar to visit his grandmother. (As if he really was Roland's son). Erra, "The boy would need to meet his grandmother at some point. But right now, he had his hands full and I doubted his wife would appreciate us dragging him off on family business."
November 7, 2021
Still no title, cover or release date. Read the snippet months ago but still no release date. Pretty disappointing.
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December 28, 20232024 and still no book in sight...for fuck's sake
May 27, 2025
Am i realy writing a review for a book that isn't even out yet? Hell, i don't even know if the first draft is finished. Stil, i will write this thing, more an opinion piece than anything else.
First: Why do i write this? Two reasons: 1) Other people have given this 5 stars and i want to even the scales bc i don't like artifical hype; 2) I'm pissed by the Andrews handling of the non existent second book of the Iron Covenant.
Back in the day i would grab a new book by Ilona Andrews without questions asked, know i'm doubting if i should give them another shot. The last books they wrote were just uninspired garbage, with the exception of Sanctuary. They seem to have lost their mojo somewhere between "Magic Triumphs" and the middle of the Pandemic That Shall Not Be Named. But instead of taking there time to find their Mojo again they just write three other spinoffs to the Kate Daniels series without continuing the first one. Yes i read their statement when Blood Heir came out: "times are to dark for Iron Covenant right now". Are you fucking kidding me? We had many crises going on before The Dark Virus (climate change, world hunger, stand-up comedy). Why is a lockdown (while annoying as shit) the point were you say "times are to dark"? Times were always dark. And Blood Heir wasn't any less dark and violent than other books from this authors.
Note: back in the day i wasn't mad or disappointed, i just shrugged it of. They would come back to it. And they cam back to it, with the Willmington Years, the third spin-off. Kate and Curran had been the main focus for ten books. Let them rest in peace. Please i beg you... well seems Willmington years will have three installments. The last one isn't here yet, but i am not sad about it.
Than came Sanctuary and i kinda liked it. But something was missing. Something important... a yes the motherfucking conclusion. So now we have five Series in the same Universe: one is finished, four are unfinished. Well, i wasn't going to go on a rant online, bc authors are people too and have the right to strucure their workdays as they seem fit, but Ilona Andrews did one stupid move that pulled my trigger: they posted the first few chapters of Iron Covenant 2 this year only to say "sorry, to much work right know". You can't start teasing us with stuff some of us wait since almost seven years and than decide your not going through with it. You are a published author for almost 20 years, you should know better so: fuck you.
First: Why do i write this? Two reasons: 1) Other people have given this 5 stars and i want to even the scales bc i don't like artifical hype; 2) I'm pissed by the Andrews handling of the non existent second book of the Iron Covenant.
Back in the day i would grab a new book by Ilona Andrews without questions asked, know i'm doubting if i should give them another shot. The last books they wrote were just uninspired garbage, with the exception of Sanctuary. They seem to have lost their mojo somewhere between "Magic Triumphs" and the middle of the Pandemic That Shall Not Be Named. But instead of taking there time to find their Mojo again they just write three other spinoffs to the Kate Daniels series without continuing the first one. Yes i read their statement when Blood Heir came out: "times are to dark for Iron Covenant right now". Are you fucking kidding me? We had many crises going on before The Dark Virus (climate change, world hunger, stand-up comedy). Why is a lockdown (while annoying as shit) the point were you say "times are to dark"? Times were always dark. And Blood Heir wasn't any less dark and violent than other books from this authors.
Note: back in the day i wasn't mad or disappointed, i just shrugged it of. They would come back to it. And they cam back to it, with the Willmington Years, the third spin-off. Kate and Curran had been the main focus for ten books. Let them rest in peace. Please i beg you... well seems Willmington years will have three installments. The last one isn't here yet, but i am not sad about it.
Than came Sanctuary and i kinda liked it. But something was missing. Something important... a yes the motherfucking conclusion. So now we have five Series in the same Universe: one is finished, four are unfinished. Well, i wasn't going to go on a rant online, bc authors are people too and have the right to strucure their workdays as they seem fit, but Ilona Andrews did one stupid move that pulled my trigger: they posted the first few chapters of Iron Covenant 2 this year only to say "sorry, to much work right know". You can't start teasing us with stuff some of us wait since almost seven years and than decide your not going through with it. You are a published author for almost 20 years, you should know better so: fuck you.
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July 3, 2018
I can't freaking wait for this!
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April 19, 2022"DELAYED
Hugh’s second book, IRON COVENANT #2, has been delayed because it’s grim and right now the world is grim enough."
Darn IT!
It doesn't look like it's going to get any better anytime soon though!!!
🤞 this isn't THAT "grim" and has a HEA or HFN ending 😬
Hugh’s second book, IRON COVENANT #2, has been delayed because it’s grim and right now the world is grim enough."
Darn IT!
It doesn't look like it's going to get any better anytime soon though!!!
🤞 this isn't THAT "grim" and has a HEA or HFN ending 😬
May 19, 2020
how is it 5 star when the book isnt out? Thats wrong. And the author isnt giving any updates or it seems, working on the book. During these times there is no reason to not keep people up dated.
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October 25, 2023"What’s next, what’s next?
I’m going to kick myself for this. Iron and Magic 2 is next."
it's been 84 years!!!!!!! no, literally!!!!1
I’m going to kick myself for this. Iron and Magic 2 is next."
it's been 84 years!!!!!!! no, literally!!!!1
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March 29, 20253/28/25: Lmao now this book won't be written until IA have fulfilled contractual obligations for a completely different, new series. I estimate 2027 as the earliest possible release date, and that's me being generous. George R.R. Martin who?
3/25/24: Omfg IA just posted on their blog that, best-case scenario, this book won't be out until mid-to-late 2025 😭😭😭 I absolutely adore them, but I'm beyond sad and frustrated right now. It's absolutely ridiculous that it'll be 7+ years between installments! Especially since they've kept promising this book is next and even released snippets, only to continually push it back in favor of random, newer projects. It's such a poor business decision too, since it looks like, based on these reviews, more and more readers are forgetting about this series and losing hope. I just want Hugh and Elara to come home to me...
3/25/24: Omfg IA just posted on their blog that, best-case scenario, this book won't be out until mid-to-late 2025 😭😭😭 I absolutely adore them, but I'm beyond sad and frustrated right now. It's absolutely ridiculous that it'll be 7+ years between installments! Especially since they've kept promising this book is next and even released snippets, only to continually push it back in favor of random, newer projects. It's such a poor business decision too, since it looks like, based on these reviews, more and more readers are forgetting about this series and losing hope. I just want Hugh and Elara to come home to me...
February 21, 2024
I keep checking to see if this book is out yet 😭
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October 31, 2020It seems we have to wait for this book indefinitely. Since I’ve just reread the first one for the third time, I am starting to get just a very little impatient (read: very very very impatient and frustrated).
Might use the waiting time sensibly though and reread every other book IA has ever written. Desperate times and all…
Might use the waiting time sensibly though and reread every other book IA has ever written. Desperate times and all…
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July 16, 2019(Grabby Hands). Gimme!!
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January 5, 2024i would give my life for this book
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May 7, 2024Coming middle of 2025!!
PLSSSSS
PLSSSSS
August 19, 2020
Please release the book! This is the best series I’ve read in years. It’s amazing and would cure my pandemic depression if it came out soon :)
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