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.

"Now we've added wizards to the mix. What else will they reveal to me? Talking animals?" p 48*

*Quote comes from the ARC, therefore it and its page number are not final.

TITLE: West of Wicked
AUTHOR: Nikki St. Crowe
PUBLISHER: Bramble
GENRE: Fantasy
RELEASE DATE: April 14, 2026

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 10 Quotes About Books

*in no particular order

10. Books saved me, and I ran away inside the stories I read as a child.
9. I remember wanting to vanish, and books helped me to escape. I longed to disappear inside a dream of the world that was less cold and lonely than the life I lived in. I read more and more, hiding inside my room and my books for hours.
8. Books can take you anywhere if you let them.
7. I have always been a little awkward around real people. I don't l know how to talk to them, and even now, I still prefer the company of characters in books.

6. I thought back to all my time alone, reading, as the world crumbled around me. It was the only thing that gave me solace and hope.

5. ...there is still something different about opening a real book, the scent that emerges, seeing one word at a time and soaking in its shape and nuance.

4. Books had always, always saved me, time and again.

3. The only thing that felt beautiful about my life was the way books let me escape it.

2. Those are valuable artifacts called "books." They're ancient repositories of knowledge bound in a mobile fashion.

1. A good book was its own brand of magic.