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HE CAME FOR ME

BOOK ONE IN THE PROTECTOR SERIES

http://www.amazon.com/He-Came-Book-One-Protector/dp/1447875591/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1422879701&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=he+came+for+me+book+one+in+the+protector+serieshttps://www.smashwords.com/books/view/82996
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/he-came-for-me-book-one-in-the-protector-series-c.-m.-brown/1113030642?ean=2940011475573

HE CAME FOR MINE

 BOOK TWO IN THE PROTECTOR SERIES

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/82996         http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/he-came-for-mine?keyword=he+came+for+mine&store=ebook




Monday 30 April 2012

TEASER TUESDAY




Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by

http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/
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 ANY 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!

THIS WEEK I HAVE CHOSEN 
“PURE"
BY

JULIANNA BAGGOTT

Pure (Pure, #1)

BLURB:


We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . 
Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.


Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . . 
There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her. 


When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.





HERES MY TEASER:


She sees a group of kids, not too much younger than she is.
Two of the – twins both with mangled, rusty legs exposed a bit below their skirts – are swinging a rope for a third with one whittled arm who hops between them. They chant:


Burn a Pure and breathe the ash.
Take his guts and make a sash.
Twist his hair and make a rope.
And use his bones to make Pure soap.
Washy, washy, washy. One two three.
Washy, washy, washy. Pure is me.


18 comments:

M Pax said...

Sounds really interesting and edgy.

John Wiswell said...

How does the chant read for you? Is it supposed to seem creepy?

Heads up - second to last line, you have "Wahsy" first.

Laurel-Rain Snow said...

Definitely a changed world...sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Here's MY TUESDAY MEMES POST

jen said...

sounds creepy!

Michael Offutt, Phantom Reader said...

I love the cover illustration for Pure.

Heather said...

Sounds edgy and maybe a bit creepy, yet also intriguing. Thanks for your visit today!

Unknown said...

Yes, I was quite impressed with this book, a very different story.

Unknown said...

Yes and no. It is just little kids playing in a very different world.

Unknown said...

Thanks for dropping by Laurel-Rain.

Unknown said...

Yes, it is a little creepy. When I first started reading Pure, a couple of pages in I thought to myself no, too real and not pleasant, but I persevered and found it intriguing!

Unknown said...

Yes it is clever isn't it.

Unknown said...

Yes it is very edgy and also not really creepy but maybe too real! It is like our worst fear for the future of the world actually coming about!

Yvonne said...

Interesting teaser!

Lynda R Young as Elle Cardy said...

Oh, Sounds like an interesting book. Thanks for the tease :)

Sonia Lal said...

sounds pretty interesting

Unknown said...

Thanks Yvonne.

Unknown said...

Yes it is interesting Lynda, thanks for dropping by.

Unknown said...

Thanks for stopping by Sonia Lal May.

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