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 A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer.

Grey stares after him. “I had almost forgotten what this was like.”

“Having someone to order around?” I say.

“No.” Rhen looks past me at his guard commander. “Being part of something bigger.”

Grey nods. “Yes. That exactly.”

Finally getting back to this re-read, in preparation for completing this series. I had forgotten so much about it, so it’s nice to revisit.

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is:

Ten Books Set in Another Time

This prompt is a little vague, since it could mean historical, futuristic, or even alternate universe. I like it since there are a lot of choices.

1. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon: Since this was a recent read and I don’t read as much historical fiction as I like, this one will be first. It takes place in 1789.
2. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel: This was the first book that popped into my head when I read this prompt. Part of it takes place in the past, and part in the future (and on the moon!)
3. Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis: All of the books in the Noumena series take place in the early 2000s, which I guess technically makes them historical fiction as well as science fiction. Dang, I feel old.
4. Pawn by Aimee Carter: Not sure exactly when this series takes place, but it’s definitely in the future. Most dystopian novels would fit into this category, since they take place here in our world, just after everything falls apart.
5. When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill: This book takes place in the 1950s, although I seem to forget hearing about women turning into dragons at that point in our history. Weird.
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky: Another book that is technically historical fiction at this point, which again, makes me feel really old. This one takes place in the 1990s.
7. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: Another dystopian novel that definitely takes place in the future after the world goes to hell. I know a lot of people are down on this book, but I think it’s fun.
8. Feed by Mira Grant: Dystopia, but with zombies! The future never looked so tasty! I’m not a big fan of zombie stories, but I loved how the human race adapted to the new circumstances.
9. The Spectral City by Leanna Renee Hieber: Takes place in the early 1900s. Female ghost hunter detectives in New York City? Yes, absolutely. Sign me up!
10. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore: Throwing some non-fiction in here, because why not. This was a fascinating, albeit horrifying, book telling the stories of young women working in radium-dial factories during World War I. Spoiler alert: radium is really, really, really bad for you.

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Please leave your teasers and top tens in comments!

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