Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays

 

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker. 

Here are the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a page
3. Pick out 2 lines that are SPOILER FREE
4. Name the title, author, etc.

"As my eyes adjust to the dark, I struggle to make out a square gate in the ceiling, about the size of a large book. Through the slits in the brass, I think I see a pair of glowing red eyes peering down right at me. Fear seizes me, and for a moment, all I can do is stare back into eyes that promise death as surely as a sinking ship. But I blink and the eyes vanish, leaving me gazing into the starless depths of darkness, wondering if I've lost more than just my home, my brother, my life before. Wondering...

Have I lost my mind, too?" p 83

TITLE: Nightweaver
AUTHOR: R.M. Gray
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
GENRE: YA Fantasy
RELEASE DATE: March 4, 2025

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and The Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week's topic is: Top Ten Book Titles That Include the Word "Blood"

*in no particular order
**being a paranormal/fantasy reader I had no shortage of titles with this word in it!

10. ROYAL BLOOD by Aimee Carter--ironically, a book that is not about vampires despite the cover! Lol. Still a good mystery!
9. BLOOD BENEATH THE SNOW by Alexandra Kennington--still in my TBR pile!
8. BLOODROSE by Andrea Cremer--old school choice! Also just saw that Andrea must have gotten the rights back to the series because Nightshade will be reprinting soon with a new cover! Curious as I LOOOVED that book/series!

7. ON WINGS OF BLOOD by Briar Boleyn--vampires AND dragons!
6. BLOOD MOON by Britney S. Lewis--vampires AND werewolves!
5. BLOOD GAMES by Chloe Neill--old school urban fantasy with, you guessed it, VAMPIRES!

4. THE WOLF AND THE CROWN OF BLOOD by Elizabeth May--another TBR book that I need to read!
3. THREE DROPS OF BLOOD by Gretchen McNeil--yet another TBR book, this time a YA Thriller!
2. FROSTBLOOD by Elly Blake--YA Fantasy! Read this series eons ago and still need to start her new YA series!

1. BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE by Annette Curtis Klause--another old school choice and one of my founding staples! LOOOOOOVED this book! Read the book, don't watch the movie. Although if you can say it's just a werewolf movie with the same title as this book, it wasn't bad. But as a book to film adaptation it was horrible!