Tuesday 17 January 2012

TUESDAY'S MG TEASER - ALI SPARKES' UNLEASHED

If your child lives on a diet of conspiracy and heart-stopping
adventure, this is the book to feed their imagination.
Ali Sparkes' writing has been described as
brilliantly inventive and outstanding.
I love to read around the Tuesday’s Teasers hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.


If you want to play along:

  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share two (2) sentences from that page.

When you select a sentence, try to make sure the Teaser doesn't stray into Spoiler territory.


If you share the title everyone can track the book down, when the section you have posted has drawn them in and has them desperate to read a whole lot more :D


A small boy and a smaller girl ran past the fountain,  giggling.They glanced over at Lisa as they went, their pale thin faces dappled with death-light and a smell of ... hum ...yep, that would be cholera.


This started out as the next on my Upper MG TBR pile, but Unleashed: A Life and Death Job, by Ali Sparkes, is proving to be more riveting than food and, for someone whose New Year's healthy eating regime equals very little eating, that is saying a lot. 




I NEED TO READ YA OR ADULT NEXT, DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE TIME TRAVEL BOOK? 

11 comments:

  1. Great teaser...

    Thanks for stopping by Better Read than Dead.

    ~Kristin

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  2. Oh, wow! Great teaser! I love the "dappled with death-light" part.

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  3. Hi Kristin
    No problem, I was happy to stop by and read your TT. Thanks for calling back :)

    Hi Cherie
    Thanks, I thought it was great too. Ali Sparkes has a lovely line in prose and the work has such depth of detail.

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  4. Cannot say I have heard of this author or book, but glad you are enjoying it. Thanks for visiting!

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  5. YIKES! That doesn't sound good at all!!! Great teaser!

    I just finished a review of my TT book "Double" if you want to check it out:) http://stephsbookcorner.blogspot.com/2012/01/review-double.html

    New follower:)

    Stephanie @Steph's Book Corner

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  6. Hi Heather
    She was a new author to me too, now I find I can only cook if I'm allowed to read between stirring ;)

    Hi Yvonne
    Thank you, I think Ali Sparkes has real quality: imagination and well researched detail.

    Hi Stephanie
    Welcome, it was lovely to see you'd arrived and hung around a little ;)
    It is a good book.

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  7. When I read your teaser, I had a sudden image of DEATH from Discworld. ^^

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  8. That was a twist! Great teaser.

    The Gideon Trilogy by Linda Buckley-Archer is one of the MG time travel books that has stuck with me; it's a unique take on the subject.

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  9. Hi Eustacia
    {{death|That is a good thing,}} He said,{{I really hope it is.}} ;)

    Hi Sonia
    Thanks you. :)

    Hi GE
    I found it very unexpected too.
    Thanks for suggesting The Gideon Trilogy as my next trip into time travel ;)

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