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Rainbow Snippet August 12-13

8/12/2017

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It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your tbr. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ+.

The Dragon's Devotion will be out on September 4th (yay!), so I thought I'd start doing some more snippets from it to lead up to the release date. In this snippet, we have the first time Bastien sees Corentin. They're both guests at a wedding, and Bastien is people-watching (because he annoyed his sister and she's ignoring him for the moment!).
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​As Ligeia continued her conversation with Mathis, Bastien let his gaze wander over those he didn’t recognize. He assumed some were Tristan’s friends and family—a few he picked out as potential siblings because of the strong resemblance—but Tristan came from a merchant family, so Bastien wouldn’t have met any of them previously. Some of the other faces Bastien didn’t recognize were probably Etan’s friends from the university. Etan was a scholar at heart and still remained devoted to his studies and work there, lecturing at the university when he could.

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He let his gaze pass over the crowd, not really focusing on anyone in particular. Until he was arrested by a pair of intense violet eyes. Bastien’s breath caught in his throat, and for a moment he couldn’t look away. 


Find more about The Dragon's Devotion and a preorder link here. Also, all of my books at Dreamspinner are 30% off this weekend, if you need some weekend reading. Thanks for stopping by and reading!
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AM Leibowitz link
8/12/2017 03:34:36 pm

Ooh, sounds like he needs to find out more about the owner of those violet eyes.

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Jeanne GFellers link
8/12/2017 05:23:12 pm

Intense violet eyes... hmmm, Doesn't sound like something easy to look away from.

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Nell Iris link
8/12/2017 11:54:58 pm

Ooooh, violet eyes!!

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CFWhite
8/13/2017 03:04:35 am

Intense violet eyes... I wouldn't be able to look away either! :)

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Cheryl Headford link
8/13/2017 07:30:24 am

I love violet eyes. One of my altime favourite characters (that I wrote) has violet eyes and it was so easy to imagine and be captivated by them, especially after looking at pictures of violet eyes. I therefore completely understand Bastien's fascination

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P.T. Wyant link
8/13/2017 10:39:47 am

Nice description of the crowd with an abrupt interruption by the eyes.

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josexpressions link
8/13/2017 04:52:27 pm

One of my favorite colors. I can imagine how mesmerized Bastien is by those violet eyes. :)

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Addison Albright link
8/16/2017 08:29:05 am

I love the tie-in to the earlier books, and the insta-attraction Bastien's experiencing here! ♡

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Kai Tyler link
8/18/2017 08:32:29 pm

I was arrested by that last paragraph--that moment when their gazes met. Lovely. :)

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Jana Denardo
8/18/2017 09:37:49 pm

Nice descriptions in this and I like how he couldn't look away.

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