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Rainbow Snippet May 27-28

5/27/2017

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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 Scholar's Heart will have been out one year on May 30th, so this weekend seems like a good time for a snippet from it. Here's a little of Etan using his Talent, the magic that allows him to change into a large cat.
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​Closing his eyes, he let out a long, slow breath and pulled up the magic that rested deep inside him. He felt it swirl up and through him, tingling and fizzing in his veins, along his skin. He loved it, the feeling, the magic. The thrill of it, the exhilaration. Always had. 

When the feeling died away, he stood on four legs instead of two. He turned his head back and forth, loosening his neck muscles, and then arched his back into a long stretch, digging his front claws into the dirt of the clearing. He shook himself as he came out of the stretch and yawned, something that probably would’ve looked somewhat fearsome if anyone saw him. His fangs were not small.

Thanks for stopping by and reading! If you'd like to know more about The Scholar's Heart, you can find it here. And if you'd like to enter the Goodreads giveaway for another book in the Tournai series, The Sorcerer's Guardian, you can find more about that here.

Hope you have a lovely weekend (long weekend here in the US!) with lots of time for reading!
8 Comments
josexpressions link
5/27/2017 03:43:08 pm

Lovely description.

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Anne Barwell link
5/27/2017 04:39:24 pm

Love the description, especially the way he pulls up the magic that rests inside him. Lovely visuals with that.

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Siobhan Muir link
5/27/2017 06:04:45 pm

Fun description of the shift, Antonia. :)

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Kari Trenten link
5/27/2017 10:57:50 pm

Exquisitely sensual description!

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Aldrea Alien link
5/28/2017 02:01:56 am

Wonderful description.

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P.T. Wyant link
5/28/2017 09:56:05 am

I could see that stretch and yawn -- perfect description.

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AM Leibowitz link
5/28/2017 05:45:57 pm

What a great snippet! I love the description of the change.

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Addison Albright link
6/2/2017 05:40:34 pm

Great job pulling the reader in to feel the transformation. :-)

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