Teaser Tuesday 12
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Here are the rules:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.
I have modified them slightly for my Teasers. It will not be two sentences from a random page but two, usually more, sentences from the pages I have read so far that have struck me as most interesting, original or that I just happen to like a lot.
My teaser this wee comes from Shadowfever, book 5 in the Fever series by Karen Marie Moning. I have already done a teaser from Bloodfever (book 2), it was actually my first teaser :) Now I am reading the final instalment in the series, at least from Mac' POV. It is the longest one (more than 500 pages) and I have been rather slow in reading it, so I am still at 15%. All the books from this urban fantasy series are so full of memorable lines, that it is a challenge to pick just a few lines for a teaser. Here is my choice:
"I can't do this. I just went through this with my sister. Regret upon regret. Missed opportunities. Bad decisions. Grief.
How many more people will have to die before I learn how to live? He was right. I'm a walking catastrophe."
"Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good."
MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever.
Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.
What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh—a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.
In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.
Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?
From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.
5 comments
I have been meaning to begin this series. I have the first book. Come see my teasers for Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh and Ink by Amanda Sun. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteGreat teaser. I'm definitely going to check this series out./ Sounds like my kinda read.
ReplyDeleteMy teaser is from 'Blood and Sand by Elizabeth Hunter'.
New follower btw. :0)
Linsey @ mybooksnthings.com
Awesome teaser. My kind of story.
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I like the writing in your teaser. The short sentences - just one word - really create tension. Good teaser.
ReplyDeleteMy Teaser is from THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS.
Oooo, so many have loved this book and series. Hope you are!
ReplyDeleteI too have a teaser up, if you'd like to stop by:
http://melissa-melsworld.blogspot.com/2013/06/teaser-tuesday-167.html