Teaser Tuesday – August 12th 2014

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme, hosted by MizB 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 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!

My Teaser:

The stains of rust seemed to map blacks sees on the black, pocked surface of Mock’s vane. A century old, it squatted on the point of an old pike that had been bolted to the outer top of the Hold’s wall.

Page 3
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book 1) Steven Erikson

AMAZON ……………………………. UK

AMAZON ……………………………. US

Lightning by Dean Koontz – A Review

Dean Koontz is the author of 71 books from Star Quest in 1968, to his most recent (currently) Innocence – released in October 2014, and this is the first of his that I have read, which was written in 1988, so all of the technology, information, laws, etc., are set in 1989.

The book starts with the birth of a baby, along with a lightning storm, and a doctor being held against his will by a blond man to stop him being at the birth of a baby, and unfortunately the mother dies in childbirth. This is not a spoiler as it is in the first pages. The story then goes on a few years and finds the baby as a young girl with her father in a shop when a man comes in to rob the shop. Suddenly, after a lightning storm, a man with blond hair turns up to deal with him and vanishes again. As the girl grows up, going through different parts of her life, the same man turns up at various instances, usually when the girl, Laura Shane, finds her life in considerable danger. She starts to see him as her guardian. For several years, he is nowhere to be seen, and in that time she becomes a massively best-selling author.

After a life changing incident when the guardian turns up again, he explains everything, and then the book takes a new turn. It becomes a race for survival as Laura and her family have to deal with people who are the same as her guardian. They have to use all of the means at the disposal that Laura Shane researched for her books, coming to a climactic life and death finale where the guardian has to place himself in harm’s way several times and using all the means at his disposal, and then some that are not, to save Laura’s family.

Several times in the book, I actually laughed out loud, and sometimes I found I was holding my breath. the twist at the end being one such time that made me laugh.

The book has multiple twists and the directionality of the changes is like a rollercoaster ride following a family on their trip through a metaphorical hell and beyond.

I have no idea what other books by Koontz are like, but after reading this one, I will be reading more. Would I recommend this book to friends? definitely if they are into a story of family life, action, drama, sci-fi, romance, loss, hate, comedy.

Teaser Tuesday – August 5th 2014

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme, hosted by MizB 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 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!

My Teaser:

“I know. But if we live through this … well, there’s always time.”
“Yes,” she said, “I suppose there’s always time.”

Lightning – Dean R Koontz (page 361)

Amazon UK ……………………….. Here

Amazon US ……………………….. Here

Teaser Tuesday – July 22nd 2014

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book meme, hosted by MizB 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 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!

My Teaser:

A revolver lay on the desk beside the script.
The door to the dark hallway was open.

Lightning – Dean R Koontz (page 218) [These two sentences, one is the end of one paragraph and the next is the start of another. Adding text from either side could give away a major plot line.]

Amazon UK ……………………….. Here

Amazon US ……………………….. Here