Teaser Tuesday #4 -- The Lord of Opium

This is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

To participate you:

* 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 Teaser Tuesday 

participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week's teasers are from:

The Lord of Opium
 (sequel to The House of the Scorpion) 


by Nancy Farmer 

Teaser #1:

"Eejits can feel pain, mi patron, otherwise I couldn't train them."

Teaser #2: 
They scream, but it's an automatic function, like your heart beating or your stomach digesting food.

Imagery in your writing

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

I just finished reading The House of The Scorpion and man do I love Nancy's writing. (Recently, I received a coupon from Barnes and Noble in the mail... guess what I'm buying with it? The sequel.) This is one of my favorite descriptions in the book (there were more, but the further I got into it, the faster I read, so I'm going to have to go back and reread it to find the parts I liked). Just had to share, as sentences like these are what pull you into the story and help you see exactly what Ms. Farmer wants to you see. (And is that what all of us writers aspire to do?)