Teaser Tuesday

Today's Blog/Website of the Day is Jenny Loves to Read found at http://jennylovestoread.blogspot.com/.

Teaser Tuesday:

• 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.

from TEARS OF PEARL by Tasha Alexander:

Within moments of arriving at the palace -- the huge outer courtyard of which contained the Imperial Mint, the newly completed Archaeological Museum, and a bakery from whose windows wafted the most delicious yeasty smell of fresh bread -- I decided that should I ever be discarded, I would be quite content to find this the site of my banishment, although I did momentarily reconsider this position as a guard led me past the Execution's Fountain. I paused in front of it, imagining the men who, over hundreds of years, had washed in it their bloody hands and swords after public beheadings.

I finished last night THE STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL TALE OF MISS PERCY PARKER by Leanna Renee Heiber. Overall, I'd have to say it was a pleasant, diverting read and it had at times good bones to the story. I was irritated in the beginning of the overuse of adjectives; it completely took me out of the story. It was over the top melodramatic at times which admittedly may have suited the type of story. It was a good story that wanted to be told a little better. This is the debut for this author so hopefully she'll settle down into a solid writer. I'd give a second book a shot.

I went to Barnes&Noble today to pick up TEARS OF PEARL by Tasha Alexander. This is 4th of four in series featuring Lady Emily Ashton, a young widow in Victorian London. Here's a description:

Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss, newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves set out toward Turkey for an exotic honeymoon. But on their first night in the city, a harem girl is found murdered—strangled in the courtyard of the Sultan’s lavish Topkapi Palace. Sir Richard St. Clare, an Englishman who works at the embassy in Constantinople, is present and recognizes the girl as his own daughter who was kidnapped twenty years earlier. Emily and Colin promise the heartbroken father they’ll find her killer. As a woman, Emily is given access to the forbidden world of the harem and quickly discovers that its mysterious, sheltered walls offer no protection from a ruthless murderer. Soon, the Valide (mother to the Sultan) is found strangled with a silken bowstring and the head Eunuch is brutally slain. When the killer strikes again, kidnapping a concubine and threatening to kill her unless Emily agrees to meet him in secret, she cannot wait for Colin or the authorities to come to her rescue.

It was just published and has 320 pages. And yes, I'll be reading this today.

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster