Teaser Tuesdays (59)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at 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 and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Teaser 1:

"I almost stab him right then. What would this man know of God's will? He is insane, hardly human with his wild eyes and predatory hunger. My hands shake with rage, though I'm not sure who it's directed at."

The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

Chapter 21

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness.

Elisa is the chosen one.

But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can’t see how she ever will.

Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.

And he’s not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people’s savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.

Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young.

Most of the chosen do. 

This is a fantastic debut novel. The picture is from the UK cover, which I prefer to the U.S. one (it is also the one that the author likes and she said that is how she pictures Elisa to look).

Teaser 2:

"Alexia named the gun Ethel. She could hit the Woolsey pot shed at six paces if she concentrated, but anything smaller or farther away was rather beyond her skill level. This didn't stop her from carrying Ethel, usually inside a reticule made to match her gown."

Heartless by Gail Carriger

p.20

Heartless is the fourth book in this fun and humorous series. In that particular scene, Alexia's coach is being attacked by mechanical "zombie" porcupines.