Teaser Tuesdays: "The Sleeping Beauty" by Mercedes Lackey

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To participate:
*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 TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!



W h a t I ' m R e a d i n g :

The Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms by Mercedes Lackey
"How would anyone ever find her out here? Who would come here, even if The Tradition led them? Who would see she was pretty beneath the layers of filth that were going to build up on her? Keeping clean was going to be impossible. And if they did, how would they get her free without cutting off her foot? ...No, this was a new twist, and a horrible one, and right now there seemed to be no Path, Traditional or otherwise, out of it."

(~pg. 37 [US hardcover edition, available now])

Goodreads Summary here.

The Sleeping Beauty is the fifth full-length title in the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdom series. If you think it's about Sleeping Beauty. But if you think this is any sort of traditional tale due to the title, you're wrong. This book isn't what you think it will be!