• 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!
Author: Diana Peterfreund
Series: For Darkness Shows the Stars, book #2
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Publication Date: October 15, 2013
Source: from publisher via Edelweiss
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction—the devastating brain disorder that sparked the wars—is a distant memory. Yet on the isle of Galatea, an uprising against the ruling aristocrats has turned deadly. The revolutionaries’ weapon is a drug that damages their enemies’ brains, and the only hope is rescue by a mysterious spy known as the Wild Poppy.My teaser:
On the neighboring island of Albion, no one suspects that the Wild Poppy is actually famously frivolous aristocrat Persis Blake. The teenager uses her shallow, socialite trappings to hide her true purpose: her gossipy flutternotes are encrypted plans, her pampered sea mink is genetically engineered for spying, and her well-publicized new romance with handsome Galatean medic Justen Helo… is her most dangerous mission ever.
Though Persis is falling for Justen, she can’t risk showing him her true self, especially once she learns he’s hiding far more than simply his disenchantment with his country’s revolution and his undeniable attraction to the silly socialite he’s pretending to love. His darkest secret could plunge both islands into a new dark age, and Persis realizes that when it comes to Justen Helo, she’s not only risking her heart, she’s risking the world she’s sworn to protect.
In this thrilling adventure inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel, Diana Peterfreund creates an exquisitely rendered world where nothing is as it seems and two teens with very different pasts fight for a future only they dare to imagine.
"All she'd wanted was to save her brother, and this was where she ended up. In the throne room of a monarch, kneeling before a young girl who was the embodiment of the aristrocracy Remy had wanted so hard to fight, the embodiment of the spy Remy had tried so hard to be. This girl was making her question everything. Everything."
- 31%, Loc 1697
Yep, still kinda in love with Peterfreund's writing, her beautiful words. It's crazy that a book about revolution could be so pretty, but it is. This author is officially on my auto-buy list.
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great teaser. I loved the Unicorn duology. I wished there had been more. Can't wait to read this book.
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