Teaser Tuesday – 13th September, 2016

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:
Children of the Different by S.C. Flynn
55% She lowered the container and tried to focus on Toura’s face but found it difficult. Arika’s eyes were blurring and she felt herself swaying. The water! Toura put something in the water. She’s always gathered herbs for the Settlement. So, Toura’s a Sleeper Feral after all.

BLURB: Nineteen years ago, a brain disease known as the Great Madness killed most of the world’s population. The survivors all had something different about their minds. Now, at the start of adolescence, their children enter a trance-like state known as the Changeland and either emerge with special mental powers or as cannibalistic Ferals.

In the great forest of south-western Australia, thirteen year-old Arika and her twin brother Narrah go through the Changeland. They encounter an enemy known as the Anteater who feeds on human life. He exists both in the Changeland and in the outside world, and he wants the twins dead.

This post-apocalyptic fantasy certainly has a different feel. I very much like the setting – Flynn’s vivid descriptions of the Australian landscape mean it is almost a character in its own right. I really care about the twins, particularly Arika, as she is coming to terms with what has happened to her in Changeland. The sense of mystery in this story has me wanting to know more.