Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by The Purple Booker.
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:
A Jewel Bright Sea – Book 1 of the Mage and Empire series by Claire O’Dell
86% A long and heavy silence, so long she felt her pulse beating like the waves upon the shore. She was on the point of speaking again when she felt a shift in the world, a sudden gap and a cold sensation, as though the void had opened to her touch. Anna uncurled her fingers. A small dark jewel lay in the palm of her hand. When she turned toward Andreas, it winked with a blood-red light, so dark and vivid it was as though it had absorbed all the light from the torches and campfire.
BLURB: It was her talent for tracking magic that got Anna Zhdanov sent to catch a thief. A scholar’s daughter sold as a bond servant, she has no desire to recover the Emperor’s jewel for herself. But a chance to earn her freedom has driven her to the untamed Eddalyon province, awash with warm breezes, lapping waves, and more danger than she could possibly guess.
This is a real swash-buckler, with pirates, spies and powerful creepy magic that Anna needs to continue to master if she is going to complete her quest and get back the jewel. I am enjoying all the action and keen to see just how this adventure is going to be tied up at the end of this first book. Fingers crossed it isn’t a cliffhanger…
Ooh, pirates😊 I just don’t read enough pirate stories.
Neither do I! But it was that cover which first attracted me…
Hmmmmm, your teaser makes this one sound very alluring. Mine will be posted within the hour at http://powerfulwomenreaders.wordpress.com
Thank you, Rae – I have thoroughly enjoyed this one so far:)
Oh the colors on the cover are gorgeous and this sounds like a lot of fun! I need to look at this one.
I certainly enjoyed it, Katherine:). I will be reviewing it in due course.
Pirates + magic = winner!
(I can’t help it! the kiddos love that Tinkerbell movie The Pirate Fairy, and it grew on me over time. xxxxx)
And I got my influence from Captain Hook, wicked old pirate that he was AND Treasure Island which I read when I was 9 and absolutely loved…
Yes yes yes!!! Did you ever see Treasure Planet? Highly recommend 🙂
No! So… a sci fi treatment of Treasure Island?? Ooo… that sounds fab! I do love what the Muppets did with the story, though – Treasure Planet will have to go some to replace that retelling in my heart:)