Teaser Tuesday – May 14, 2024

By Denise @ Life With No Plot on May 14, 2024 • ( 0 )

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Here are the rules if you want to play along:

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!

This week’s teaser comes from The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson, book #3 in the Shades of London series.

London fog is like fish and chips, salt and vinegar, crown and jewels, tea and biscuits. Jack the Ripper hid in it. Sherlock Holmes hurried through it. Ever character in Dickens stood in a clump of it. Poets rhapsodized about it. Painters tried to snare it and stick it to a canvas. It mostly vanished fifty or sixty years ago, when the coal fires stopped and people got more serious about the environment. You couldn’t burn just anything anymore and send orphans up the chimney to deal with the mess. Modern London is a responsible place, and its air is relatively clean and clear.

Probably the best description of fog that I’ve ever heard.

No Top Ten Tuesday this week, but will hopefully get back to that soon.