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:
Unraveled by Jennifer Estep – Book 15 of the Elemental Assassin series
60% From the phone, I could hear Silvio’s sharp, demanding tone, if not his exact words.
Ira stopped. “You’re going to come down here and pull my guts out through my nose? Really?” he snickered. “You and what army, hotshot?”
BLURB: What could go wrong when you’re trying to unravel a decades-old conspiracy?
As the current queen of the Ashland underworld, you would think that I, Gin Blanco, would know all about some secret society controlling things from behind the scenes. I might be the Spider, the city’s most fearsome assassin, but all my Ice and Stone elemental magic hasn’t done me a lick of good in learning more about “the Circle”. Despite my continued investigations, the trail’s gone as cold as the coming winter.
So when Finnegan Lane, my foster brother, gets word of a surprising inheritance, we figure why not skip town for someplace less dangerous for a few days? That place: Bullet Pointe, a fancy hotel resort complex plus Old West theme park that Finn now owns lock, stock, and barrel. At first, all the struttin’ cowboys and sassy saloon girls are just hokey fun. But add in some shady coincidences and Circle assassins lurking all around, and vacationing becomes wilder—and deadlier—than any of us expected.
Good thing this assassin brought plenty of knives to the gunfight …
This is an urban fantasy adventure featuring a kickass heroine with a traumatic past, some paranormal skills and a small team of trusted friends and family to help her cope with some really nasty and shadowy villains. Cosily familiar and enjoyable. Estep is a smooth writer and although I’ve crashed into the middle of a long-running series and probably am missing some of the nuances of some of the exchanges, I haven’t floundered or felt adrift. And after some of the highly charged, emotional reads I’ve recently experienced, this is welcome light relief…
I’m still not sure if this is a series I want to try. I guess I’d have to be in just the right mood!
To be honest, I wouldn’t have plucked it off the shelves, but it is a NetGalley read that I requested a while ago – but it is great fun and very welcome relief after some of the heavy-duty, emotional, yet awesome material I’ve been recently reading.
Guts through nose?!?! Nice! 😂
Nicely snarky throughout:)
Well, they’re badass…
Mine is a fun read from one of Lisa Scottoline’s legal murder mysteries: https://wp.me/p3Nz8P-K8
It’s a lot of murder mystery mayhem, which is light relief after some of the awesome reads I’ve recently experienced:)
I am so far behind in this series. And it’s so good. I wish my job was to stay at home and read books!
My TT from Bayou Shadow Hunter
I’ve only read a couple of her books, but I do like Estep’s writing style. For what it’s worth, I haven’t read ANY of this series and haven’t felt it to be a problem at all.
I’ve read the first in this series. I had no idea that it was still going. My teaser this week comes from Magic & Manners by C. E. Murphy. Happy reading!
I think you could pick this one up and not feel too adrift, Kathy. I’ve not floundered at any stage – though I was a bit poleaxed when I went onto Goodreads and discovered it was no 15 in the series!
I’m afraid I still have to start this series . . . but I’m so curious! Lots of bloggers I know love it and I’m glad you seem to enjoy it as well 🙂
Thanks for sharing and stopping by my blog earlier!
I read Touch of Frost by Jennifer and it left such a bad taste in my mouth I don’t know if I’ll ever read from her again. But awesome teaser. Here’s mine Teaser Tuesday| August 23, 2016 – http://wp.me/p7KAUt-2D
Oh dear:(. What was the problem?
Her heroine was down right horrible. She goes to a school for Mythical beings and she is also one and knows this. Buy doesn’t believe? How can you not believe?
Ah… I haven’t read the book, so I can’t comment – but I’m guessing she’s one of those main characters who gets nicer as the series progresses – but there’s always the risk of thoroughly upsetting the reader while she’s in her vile stage, isn’t there? There are books I’ve flung across the room because I’ve HATED the main character!
I have been wanting to give Estep a try. I have heard great things about her books.
I’ve read a couple of her books so far and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed them. She’s a smooth accomplished writer:)
I have tried urban fantasy, and if I were to try again, this series might be the one. Thanks for sharing…and here’s mine: “THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST”
She is a really smooth accomplished writer – though if you wanted to dip your toe back into the urban fantasy pool (far from me to discourage you – I love this genre) would you really want to embark on such a long-running series?
I have been wanting to get into this series for forever. I’m a huge UF fan. I’m sure I would love it lol
It’s great fun – I’m sure you’d enjoy it, too. Have a great week, Jessica:)
Great excerpt, but this may be a little bit too rough for me.
My Tuesday post features LATE FALL.
I knew Ira was grouchy, but I didn’t think he was going to be real trouble. Good teaser!
Hm… I’ll be intrigued to know what you think when you get further into the story:))
Well – ouch! That’s going to hurt! Great choice of sentence. Very intriguing.
Lynn 😀
It’s a thoroughly enjoyable read, so far:)
This looks great fun! 🙂
Ooooh, sounds like fun! Looking forward to your review. (But… 15 books? When would I manage to read it all?)
I’ve only read that one – and to be honest I’ve no intention of wading through all the rest. It is one of those books where you can hop on for the ride without any floundering.
Ah, that’s cool. I don’t see myself commiting to such a long series unless it’s superb and close to being the book equivalent of the love of my life. 😉
No… it’s great fun, but it isn’t that!
I won’t feel guilty if I read only one then! 🙂