Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesday:  Heartless

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB @ Should Be Reading. Here are the rules: grab whatever you're reading, open to a random page, select no more than two sentence (NO SPOILERS), share the title and author, and GO!
Here's this week's teaser:
"Alexia backed toward the open door, lifting up her parasol in a defensive position and pressing her thumb against the appropriate lotus petal in the handle, arming the tip with one of the numbing darts.  She wished she had not left Ethel behind; guns, by an large, were far more threatening than parasols"  --page 101 
  --Heartless by Gail Carriger
Nearly done with the Parasol Protectorate series!  One more to go. 

Happy reading!
 

Comments

  1. UnknownJune 17, 2014 at 9:28 AM

    Is Ethel her gun?

    http://carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com/2014/06/teaser-tuesdays_17.html

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  2. Sandra NachlingerJune 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM

    A parasol with numbing darts?? I love it!
    My Teaser is from MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST
    STAND.

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    1. MelJune 18, 2014 at 9:44 AM

      It's quite an ingenious invention...with multiple uses :) Thanks for stopping by, Sandra. And I have yet to read "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand"...will have to check it out!

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  3. AnonymousJune 17, 2014 at 11:51 AM

    Ha, ha. Using a parasol as a weapon reminds me of Amelia Peabody.
    Mine today is from Borderline by Nevada Barr. http://wp.me/pZnGI-8k

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    1. MelJune 18, 2014 at 9:44 AM

      Oh! I'll have to check into that :) And I'll pop over to read your teaser. Thanks for stopping by.

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  4. Melissa O.June 17, 2014 at 7:44 PM

    LOL -- great teaser, love it!
    Here's my TT post.

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    1. MelJune 18, 2014 at 9:45 AM

      Thanks! I'm quite enjoying this series. Thanks for stopping by, Melissa!

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