Teaser Tuesday No. 4: Storm Warning, by Mercedes Lackey

Welcome to "Teaser Tuesday"!!


This meme is hosted by  Ambrosia @ The Purple Booker every week, and the rules are very simple.

RULES

* Grab you current read.

*Open to a random page.

*Share two "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 and author, too, so that other

TT participants can add the book to their

TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


Note
Since I'm a slow reader, I don't have a new book
started every week. I am therefore going
 to bend the rules a little.....
I'll be featuring books I want to read,
that are currently sitting on my shelves.

Here are my teasers!

Emperor Charliss sat upon the Iron Throne, bowed down neither by the visible weight of his years nor the invisible weight of his power. He bore neither the heavy Wolf Crown on his head, nor the equally burdensome robes of state across his shoulders, though both lay nearby, on an ornately trimmed marble bench beside the Iron Throne. The thick silk-velvet robes flowed down the bench and coiled on the floor beside it, a lush weight of pure crimson so heavy it took two strapping young men to lift them into place on the Emperor's shoulders.   
-- Chapter 1, page 1

"Hear me out. When the Gods granted mankind free will, They allowed uncertainty to enter the world. Some things can be predicted, others cannot. If I may make an analogy -- I can tell you that a great storm is coming. With the knowledge I have that when the wind blows such-and-so, and the glass falls, and the sky looks thusly at this time of year, I can say that there will be a storm."  -- Chapter 13, page 298

Storm Warning

(Valdermar: Mage Storms, Book 1)
Mercedes Lackey

Hardcover, 403 pages

DAW Books, Inc,
August 1, 1994

Fantasy, Science Fiction

In war-ravaged Valdemar, Queen Selenay struggles to overcome years of hatred, hostility, and superstition to forge an alliance with Valdemar's long-time enemy, the neighboring kingdom of Karse, to combat a mutual enemy from the mysterious Eastern Empire.

I know I bought this book at a Barnes & Noble store, but don't remember which one. It was probably the small one on Coral Way, in the heart of Coral Gables, a small city that used to be part of Miami, and now is a city in its own right.

I acquired this beauty at the bargain price of $5.98 plus tax! And it's a hardcover, too!   The original price was $21.95 plus tax, so I'm REALLY happy about this purchase!!  Well, B&N is famous for its bargain book area. And this book is brand, spanking new, of course!

When I opened the book and read several passages in order to pick my teasers, I was floored by the beauty and quality of the prose! I should make it a point to read this one sometime soon!!

What do you think of my teasers?

Are you interested in this book?

Please leave a comment, 

along with the link

to your own "Teaser Tuesday" post, 

and let me know!