Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, which asks you to grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences.
This week’s teaser comes from Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes.
In a land where magic has been forgotten but peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest is simmering. Three kingdoms grapple for power—brutally transforming their subjects’ lives in the process. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and battles, four young people find their fates forever intertwined:
Cleo: A princess raised in luxury must embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long thought extinct.
Jonas: Enraged at injustice, a rebel lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country impoverished—and finds himself the leader of a people’s revolution centuries in the making.
Lucia: A girl adopted at birth into a royal family discovers the truth about her past—and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield.
Magnus: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, a firstborn son begins to realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword… .
The only outcome that’s certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed?
“Cleo settled down onto the thin straw mattress and stared up at the dark ceiling. And though her thoughts first turned unbidden to Theon and what he might be doing, when she fell asleep, she dreamed of sorceresses and goddesses and magic seeds.” – page 215
I think I’ve seen the cover of this book somewhere before already but I’ve never really paid attention or got interested. Maybe because the cover kinda looks like off a video game or something. But it’s definitely on my to-read list now. 🙂 Anyway, here;s mine: http://booksandbindings.com/teaser-tuesdays-die-for-me-revenants-1/