Teaser Tuesday: The Crow

Against my better judgement, I started The Crow by Alison Croggon yesterday. I knew I was going to get wrapped up in it, and today is a full day so I am going to have to put it down. So far, I'm enjoying it even more than I thought I would. There's something really addicting about Croggon's writing and characters. It's one of those books in a series that moves away from the main character (Maerad) and the main action to focus on a second character (Hem) who is integral to the full story, and I often find that really annoying. But I really like Hem and his mentor Saliman, and I love the setting, and I'm very much looking forward to spending this book with them and finding out the role that Hem plays in the greater picture.

From The Crow by Alison Croggon, p31:

Like everyone else in the School, he had heard the news, which had arrived by bird courier that morning and spread through Turbansk like wildfire. The students had been whispering about it in the corridors, shocked and subdued, and a girl whose family came from Baladh had started crying in one of the classes and had been taken away by Urbika.

Teaser Tuesdays are hosted by Should Be Reading. It works as follows:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.
• Be careful not to include spoilers!
• Include the title and author.