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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 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!
The book tour  for D.A. Adams newest book in his Brotherhood of Dwarves series is well under way. On the 18th next month it will end with me reviewing the first book in the series. Here is a little taste of that book.

 

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The wagon’s bed slipped from his fingers, and the soft ground smacked him on the chin. He tried to stand, but his body was frozen from the two molten embers, and Roskin passed out from the pain.


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 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!)

INTRO

The bell rings.

Your once-warm bed is already cold

because you’ve thrown back the blanket

and sat up before you were even awake.

The bell does this to you.

 

Jason Mondy’s world is unraveling.

His seemingly secure job as a fire fighter is suddenly thrown into chaos. The bright spot in his week is that he rescued two children from a house fire, but he returns home that night to find all his furniture is missing. His girlfriend has left him without warning and his nightmares keep him from sleeping. Even just a simple trip home to find some rest leads his adoptive mother to sit him down and tell him that maybe his troubles aren’t quite as innocuous as they seem. Then his she divulges a secret she’s kept for over twenty-six years . . .

Jason has a brother he doesn’t remember existed.

He doesn’t remember his life before he was adopted at age seven. He only knows that he was rescued from the fire that took his birth mother’s life. But the story is deeper than that, and the foundation on which he built his world is now cracking. The brother he doesn’t remember it out there somewhere, left behind.

Armed with only this stunning new piece of information, Jason embarks on a quest to find the truths buried deep in his past. As he searches, one by one the pieces of his life fall like dominoes. And the more he uncovers, the more everything he thought he knew about himself and his past begins to turn to ash.

His truth isn’t true at all . . .


 

Mailbox Monday is a weekly event started by Marcia, and is now hosted on a blog rotation.  BookNAround is the host for the month of September.

In a Simon and Schuster giveaway I won the fantastic two pack of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer in hardback and the upcoming sequel The Evolution of Mara Dyer in a lovely arc copy omg win win win!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I requested from Paperbackswap The Snow Queen of which I am one of the few who hasn’t read it. I was so excited to see that I received the super pretty cover on this one. Published in the year I was born ( you’ll all just have to look that up ) and winner of the Hugo the year after I snatched it when I saw it as available on PBS

 

 

 

 

One of my fave publicity companies who I so enjoy working with because they send me great books and authors had the latest A.J. Scudiere book. I’ll be interviewing A.J. for her tour for Phoenix but the review I just had to do. I’ve read all of her work and really enjoyed them in particular God’s Eye so I said pretty please can I have it. Clearly they said yes :)

 

 

 

And about a million ebooks

Dastardly Bastard by Edward Lorn

Xor : The Shape of Darkness by Moshe Sipper

Colored and other stories by Mohanalalakshmi Rajakumar

For review

Indigo Pheasant by Daniel a. Rabuzzi

Twice Shy by Patrick Freivald

The Donors by Jeffery Wilson

Evan Burl and the Falling

Westlake Soul by Rio Youers

Janus by John Park

Won from library thing

The Devil of Echo Lake by Douglas Wynne

Purchases

Love Me by Danger Slater

 


Sunday Shorts is a new meme started by the CabinGoddess.com. The rules are easy, a short story, an anthology of short stories, a novella, or a quick weekend read that is also short on your wallet!

 

Amazon clearly wants me to continue this meme as it sent me an email asking me if I was interested in the suggested short stories. Why yes, yes I am. Thank you amazon. Excellent timing you have. While browsing I came across this book which sure looks like it would keep a reader up at night.

Monstrous transplants. Appalling amputations. Bizarre implants. Nightmarish forms of body enhancements. Disturbing, perverse, often gut-wrenching stories–all between the covers of this anthology. Here are 20 tales by some of today’s best horror, suspense, and science fiction writers, including Graham Masterton, John Shirley, Scott Nicholson, Michael Laimo, Lisa Mannetti, L.L. Soares, Armand Rosamilia, Aaron J. French, Christopher Nadeau, Michael Bailey, Adrienne Jones, Charles Colyott, J. Gregory Smith, Michael Louis Calvillo, Jezzy Wolfe, Jonathan Templar, P.I. Barrington, Elliott Capon, Rob M. Miller, and Weldon Burge. The stories are not for those who are faint of heart or squeamish, or who are easily offended by nasty language, bloody violence, and freakish body augmentations. You’ve been warned!

 


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 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!)

Her mother took her shoulders, guided her around gently toward the manor. “Our daughter isn’t here only to visit, Kallon,” she said. “She is here to remember.”

 

Sela by Jackie Gamber

Peace was fleeting. Vorham Riddess, Venur of Esra Province, covets the crystal ore buried deep in Leland’s mountains. His latest device to obtain it: land by marriage to a Leland maiden. But that’s not all.

Among Dragonkind, old threats haunt Mount Gore, and shadows loom in the thoughts of the Red who restored life to land and love. A dragon hunter, scarred from countless battles, discovers he can yet suffer more wounds.

In the midst of it all, Sela Redheart is lost, driven from her home with only her old uncle to watch over her. As the dragon-born child of Kallon, the leader of Leland’s Dragon Council, she is trapped in human form with no understanding of how she transformed, or how to turn back.

Wanderers seek a home, schemes begin to unfurl, and all is at risk as magic and murder, marriage and mystery strangle the heart of Esra. A struggle for power far older and deeper than anyone realizes will leave no human or dragon unaffected.

In a world where magic is born of feeling, where the love between a girl and a dragon was once transformative, what power dwells in the heart of young Sela?