Teaser Tuesdays
is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of ShouldBe 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 the
author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists
if they like your teasers!
My teaser:
He had no face: just an eye-slit between a high bronze throat-guard masking nose and mouth, and a black-painted helmet of scales sliced from the tusks of boars, with bronze cheek-guards and a crest of black horsetail. Only his hair showed that he was human."
All I would say to Hylas, the soon to be hero, is if you're going to make enemies don't make them the "monsters of darkness and bronze" who have no compunction about killing goat-herding teenagers. Michelle Paver's black warriors are royally bad.
WHAT KIND OF MONSTER WOULD YOU WANT TO FIGHT?
Please make mine a short one with all the power of a feather in flight ;)
That's a great teaser - the book sounds awesome! I personally wouldn't want to fight ANY monsters, and would prefer to not even meet any! :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Lisa-Marie
DeleteI can appreciate why you'd like to avoid all the monsters that exist in the world but, don't you find that in every dark corner they tend to breed and multiply? ;)
That's my kind of critter! Actually do have a species that's a little like that, too. And what a neat cover.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of monster would I want to fight? The puny, powerless kind, who would give up early on and then hang around my house doing chores afterward. I could use a puny ethereal sidekick.
I love the sound of your monster - puny and useful too. But, what if all that being useful was just a smokescreen for its developing and preparing to strike? ;)
DeleteGods? Black Warriors? I should check this out!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of monster would I want to fight? Like, really, that's not a rhetorical question? I'll just live through other hero's :)
........dhole
Hi Donna
DeleteIts not a superhero who fights the monsters it's the masses of the weak and puny who band together to become something even greater than the sum of their parts ;)