Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• 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! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
This is my choice of the day:
Queen of Hearts – Book 1 of the Queen of Hearts Saga – by Colleen Oakes
76%: In a week, she would be the queen, but all Dinah could feel was the heavy stone of guilt,
pressing hard against her chest, heavier with each passing day. She gratefully surrendered to sleep, night after night, as the stars whirled above.
BLURB: As Princess of Wonderland Palace and the future Queen of Hearts, Dinah’s days are an endless monotony of tea, tarts, and a stream of vicious humiliations at the hands of her father, the King of Hearts. The only highlight of her days is visiting Wardley, her childhood best friend, the future Knave of Hearts — and the love of her life.
When an enchanting stranger arrives at the Palace, Dinah watches as everything she’s ever wanted threatens to crumble. As her coronation date approaches, a series of suspicious and bloody events suggests that something sinister stirs in the whimsical halls of Wonderland. It’s up to Dinah to unravel the mysteries that lurk both inside and under the Palace before she loses her own head to a clever and faceless foe.
This dystopian take of Alice in Wonderland is a tension-filled account of court life where no one trusts anyone else. I’ve enjoyed watching characters from Lewis Carroll’s original book pop up in unexpected places, in unexpected guises…
Sounds good. I like retellings. This week my YA teaser comes from The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude. Happy reading!
It looks a really enjoyable read – very expensive on Kindle though:(. Thank you for swinging by and have a great week.
I do love Alice in Wonderland, so any retelling is bound to tempt me. Thanks for sharing…and here’s mine: “LIES & OTHER ACTS OF LOVE”
This looks an awesome read:). It’s always great to see family-based mysteries – I have a real weakness for them.
A different kind of retelling. Happy reading.
Thank you for swinging by:) Have a great week.
Interesting idea for a story. I think I’d enjoy escaping into this book.
My Tuesday post features STELLA BAIN.
It’s certainly an interesting premise – claustrophic and atmospheric. I enjoyed it. Thank you for swinging by:)
Interesting! I’m definitely adding that to my TBR.
My teaser is also from a retelling, but of the Penelope & Odysseus myth…
http://taralei.me/teaser-tuesday-april-26/
I’m also majorly into retellings at present as I’ve recently completed writing one of my own… Thank you for swinging by.
I’ve read another of Colleens books and quite enjoyed so I’m looking forward to your review.
Oh, which one is that? I was sort of under the impression she was a debut novelist, so I’m interested to see what else she has written.
I’m hoping I’m not mixing up my authors but fairly certain she wrote Wendy Darling which is a Peter Pan retelling. Quite a dark one.
No… I’ve just had a look and you’re absolutely right – it is the same author. Having read ‘Queen of Hearts’ I’m not surprised her take on the Peter Pan story was dark… Did you enjoy it?
The descriptions were a little long winded at times for me but otherwise yes I liked it a lot. Unfortunately it ended on a cliffhanger so I’m waiting on the next one.
Yes… she does that in the Queen of Hearts, also.
I wonder what’s making her feel guilty. I love retellings too. I haven’t read any Alice in Wonderland ones yet. Thanks for sharing it.
I’ve never heard of this book before. I’m definitely going to look it up! Great teaser! Here is mine: http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/04/teaser-tuesday-dont-you-cry-by-mary.html
Many thanks for swinging by. It is a really interesting read – I’ll be reviewing it in due course.
I don’t do a lot of retellings but this one sounds like it might be a good one. I need to read outside the box now and then too.
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