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Teaser Tuesdays: The Word Exchange

I got this idea from The Roaming Librarian, who’s blog I would highly recommend reading.

Here are the rules (again, from The Roaming Librarian. I couldn’t have explained it better myself).

– Grab (one of) your current read(s) and open it 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!)
– Remember to include the title & author, too, so that your followers and any Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their reading lists if your tease has captured their attention!

So, I’m reading The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon. I’ll try and have a review for it later this week, so I’m not going to say much, but it’s a dystopian/science fiction/mystery book that’s definitely worth picking up.

 “But something stopped me in the doorway.  Sticking out from beneath Bart’s desk was a pair of skinny legs.” (Loc 377 of 6489)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.indiebound.org/book/

 

 

 

 

 

Update: I know Roaming Librarian isn’t the first to do this, as she has listed off other bloggers who have in her TT. I’m mentioning her, though, because I thought the rules were easy to understand, and I got the idea off the Roaming Librarian blog. If you do your own TTs, feel free to leave links in the comments and I’ll be sure to check them out.

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Explosions, Foreign Countries, and General Badass-ness

 Lately, I’ve been wanting to read two types of books: and classics. Hunt the Wolf obviously falls into the former, and it was just what I was looking for. It was full fights, explosion, foreign countries, good prevailing over bad, and general badass-ness.

SEAL Team Six leader Tom Crocker is determined to take down an Al Quaeda leader who is called AZ. After a failed mission to retrieve him, however, and a chewing out from his superiors, Crocker is ready to kick some butt. When the king of Norway asks Crocker and his team to track down a girl kidnapped by human traffickers, it looks like Crocker will be able to do just that.

My biggest problem with this book was that it was kind of predictable. I could predict a lot of the events that happened, although a few did take me by surprise. But I thought that the foreshadowing could have been a little bit better handled. However, I thought the writing was excellent. It was really easy for me to get absorbed in the book, and I could picture Crocker and his team as they tracked down the missing girl. I liked Crocker’s character, too. Even though he enjoys his work, he also loves his wife and daughter, and he tries to balance his personal and work life as much as possible. Actually, most of his team was pretty cool. I thought Akil was particularly funny and lovable, and the banter between him and Crocker was great. I’d probably give this book four out five stars, and I’ll take a chance and say that anyone who liked the Taken movies (and seriously, how can you not like those movies?) would like this book.

 http://www.indiebound.org/book/

And, as you may have noticed, there’s been a lot of Indiebound links on my blog. I’ve recently become an affiliate with them, which means that I get a small percentage of money if you click on one of the links on my blog and then buy the book. However, I’m doing this mostly because I support Indibound, and I support local bookstores. Considering the fact that 68% of the money you spend at a local shop stays in your community instead of the 43% with a chain, or none with Amazon (unless the author you’re buying is local) I think it’s worth spending a bit more time and money getting a print book from my local bookstore when I can. (I buy books from Amazon, but only if I can’t order them from a store). If you mind these links, then leave it in the comments or email me.