Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish 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 and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!
(Berkley trade paperback, 2006, page 104):
“At a turn in the path Auriane saw, half hidden in the trees, a lichen-covered stone tall as a man and carved with rune-signs traced in blood. And as they traveled on, suddenly all about them, hung from every bough, were myriads of bronze chimes shivering with each wind-breath; their thin ghostly chorus filled her with an aching, dreamy sadness.”
Set in first century A.D./C.E. Germania and the Roman Empire during the reigns of Nero and Domitian, Donna Gillespie’s The Light Bearer features a Teutonic warrior woman who is captured and taken to Rome where she is trained as a gladiatrix. Tribulations and romance follow amid the dangers of political intrigue.
At nearly 800 pages the novel qualifies as the heftiest tome of historical fiction I have selected from my bookshelves this year. Since I am merely an eight of the way into the book I am reserving judgment about the characterisations and plot, but so far lyrical prose and a mystical mood (reminiscent of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists Of Avalon) are anchored to action-filled, historically detailed storytelling.
Please feel free to share a link to your own Tuesday teaser!
