Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat. 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!
Today’s Teaser Tuesday: The Swan Riders
Title: The Swan RidersAuthor: Erin Bow
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication Date: September 20, 2016
Greta Stuart had always known her future: die young. She was her country's crown princess, and also its hostage, destined to be the first casualty in an inevitable war. But when the war came it broke all the rules, and Greta forged a different path.
She is no longer princess. No longer hostage. No longer human. Greta Stuart has become an AI.
If she can survive the transition, Greta will earn a place alongside Talis, the AI who rules the world. Talis is a big believer in peace through superior firepower. But some problems are too personal to obliterate from orbit, and for those there are the Swan Riders: a small band of humans who serve the AIs as part army, part cult.
Now two of the Swan Riders are escorting Talis and Greta across post-apocalyptic Saskatchewan. But Greta’s fate has stirred her nation into open rebellion, and the dry grassland may hide insurgents who want to rescue her – or see her killed. Including Elian, the boy she saved—the boy who wants to change the world, with a knife if necessary. Even the infinitely loyal Swan Riders may not be everything they seem.
Greta’s fate—and the fate of her world—are balanced on the edge of a knife in this smart, sly, electrifying adventure.
This is the sequel to The Scorpion Rules, and I am actually finding it to be very different from the first book. Greta has totally changed, but the story is sill very interesting. I am very curious about the AIs in the book.
Book Quotes: The Swan Riders
“The Swan Riders were both murderers. But that was nothing to what Talis was.”
About Erin Bow
Erin Bow is the author of The Scorpion Rules, which received three starred reviews and was a Kirkus ReviewsBest Book of the Year and it’s sequel, The Swan Riders, which received two starred reviews. She also wrote the acclaimed Russian-flavored fantasy Plain Kate, which received two starred reviews and was a YALSA Best Book of the Year, and the terrifying YA ghost story Sorrow’s Knot, which received five starred reviews and was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year.
I’m reading Scorpion Rules right now and aaaahhhh this is getting me hype for book 2!
It is probably best to read these books back to back! I had to go back and remember the events from book one! Enjoy. 🙂
Oooh… interesting…
Mine this week is from Neal Shusterman’s Challenger Deep: https://wp.me/p3Nz8P-Ox
Haven’t heard of this series at all but it sounds very different and intriguing. Yet another for the TBR 🙂
It is a very different series, for sure! I hope that you enjoy it as well. 🙂
Well, now I’m hooked – a fantasy princess all set to take the throne, who then finds she’s become an AI?? I’m a SUCKER for good sci fi/fantasy mash-ups! Hope this one continues to delight – I love the cover… This is mine this week – https://sjhigbee.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/teaser-tuesday-6th-september-2016/
Yay!! I hope that you love the story as much as the cover! 😉
Beautiful cover. I rarely read fantasy, but this story sounds intriguing.
My Tuesday post features THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY.
Sounds interesting, although probably not for me. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy! Here’s mine: “THE SISTER”
I haven’t read The Scorpion Rules yet, so maybe it isn’t a huge surprise that I had no clue about a sequel. BUT I am surprised!!!
I enjoyed the first one. This sounds even more complex.
MY TT from The Lobby
This sounds interesting! I’ve heard many good things about this series, so maybe I’ll start it next 🙂