Hello all! This week I’m giving away an advance review copy of Sarah Prineas’s new book, Winterling.
Sarah Prineas is one of my favorite children’s fantasy writers. She writes like a great watercolor artist, painting vivid pictures with spare and economical prose that makes every syllable count. It’s a perfect style for the kind of book Prineas specializes in: tales of mystery and magic deep enough to satisfy readers of all ages. Her Magic Thief series is absolutely fantastic fantasy; such a great read that I ripped through the whole trilogy in under a week and immediately went looking for more.
Happily more has now arrived!
Winterling is aimed at slightly older readers but written in the same clean, fluid style as Prineas’s earlier books. And it has a kickass girl hero. And it mingles this-worldly mystery with other-worldly magic in a dark and brooding setting that calls to mind of one of my very favorite childhood series: Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising books.
So what more do you need to know? Great book. And it’s free to the lucky lucky winner!
Here’s how I’m going to run the giveaway:
- You pick a number between 1 and 245.
- I quote you a line from that page of the book.
- Then I employ a random number generator (aka, my four-year-old) to pick the winning number.
- If two people are equally close to the winning number, we’ll just make the random number generator do his thing again until we get a winner.
The Random Number Generator is currently obsessed with Very Large Numbers, so there should be no problem getting him to pick a passel of ‘em; the only challenge will be getting him to pick something smaller than a googol….
Deadline for picking your page number is 5 pm Monday December 12th. So have at it!
233
I’ve been hearing so many good things about this book! (Nicole from the Center for Fiction, fan of your SciFi. Waves.)
Hi Nicole! Thanks for entering! Here’s your line from page 233:
245
Looks fantastic
Hmmm … I’d better pick carefully as this is the very lastest page, and I don’t want to give anything away.
How’s this?
202
Thank you so much for offering this contest, Chris! I finished reading the Magic Thief triology as though I’d lived it and now two of my three children are avidly reading at bedtime with my 8 yr old stating proudly she’ll start them next week. It’s great when reading can encompass the whole family!
So looking forward to this book! Page 199 please
Here you go. Enjoy!
227
I’d love so much to read this early–and even more so after the line from 233.
Glad you liked it! Here’s another one to whet your curiosity:
17
I’ve been looking forward to this book for a while!
Okay, I leave you with a longer bit before I sign off for the evening. Enjoy….
I’m one of the proud sistas! I pick lucky number 13!!!
Okay, one more before I go. And thanks for stopping by!
I’m going with 7. Thanks for doing this! I love her Magic Thief series.
It is a great series, isn’t it? It feels made to be read aloud. I enjoyed reading it to myself, since I’m that sort of grownup
… but all the while I kept thinking how fun it would be to read it aloud. Can’t wait to read it aloud with my kids. Here’s your quote:
Page 207. Got to read this book.
Fer set down the books on the table with a thump.
Ohhh man i want to read this so bad!!
how about 218???
For just a second Rook wanted to knock Fer down and bite her to make her pay attention.
101 please.
This book sounds great!
I expect you want to know who I am and what my purpose is.
I fell in love with Fer when I saw the cover. I want to know her — what makes her tick — what makes her courage flow!
I choose page 189.
Yep, it’s an awesome cover. Reminds me of the old Black Stallion books that I obsessed over when I was a horse-crazy 11 year old.
And funny you should mention it, since your chosen page contains a cover-related quote….
Great giveaway! I hope this is international as I live in the UK (crosses fingers) I pick page 41
Thanks
Yes, we ship to the Fog-Wreathed Isles….
I teach middle school and would love to add this book to my classroom library. (After I read it first!) I pick 197.
Fer landed in rushing dark water.
132. My mom and Sarah were buddies in grad school and I’ve read all her books!
Fer woke up in the gray time before sunrise, shivering inside a cocoon of silk sheets and two coverlets.
I think I will choose page number 237. I loved reading the Magic Thief trilogy. Sarah is a great writer. Whether I win this or not, I will be adding it to my “to buy” list. Since she is one of my favorite authors, it gets bumped to the top of the list. Hey, it’s my list, I can do what I want to with it. :p
Hey, it’s your list. Who am I to stop you?
111.
Can’t wait to read this! Thanks for the giveaway.
The path led deeper into the forest
Looking forward to this book, and also to the next book in Inquisitor series! I loved the first one.
Page 203 please!
Thanks! And here’s your quote:
Magic 8 ball says “Try again later” – useless piece of plastic, so I”ll go with 177
Magic Page 177 says:
Fer felt the Lady’s chill magic settling over her; She blinked and shook her head, fighting to escape the net of her glamorie.
Oops! I failed to ask my Random Number Generator to pick a number two nights in a row! I’ll do it when he gets home from school today and announce the winner this evening (and email whoever it is for his/her address so I can get the book out tomorrow). Thanks again to you all for playing!
And the magic number was …. one hundred and six! Which means it’s a tie between Daniel Mauvais at 101 and E. C. Myers at 111. Each of you want to pick another number between 1 and 245 — and we’ll consult the Oracle one more time? Good luck!!
Ooh! 67 please.
This is really exciting! (:
Oh great! Glad you stopped by! I was getting ready to email you since you hadn’t answered! Let me ping E.C. now….
Okay, E.C. picked 227, so I’ll consult my Random Number Generator and hopefully this round will be the last. If we have another, I’ll just flip a coin and get it over with — as long as that’s okay with you two. Otherwise this would start to get ridiculous!!!
Awesome, can’t wait!
I just found out via Goodreads that you’ve written 3 books I have not yet read, and worse yet, I didn’t know you’d written. So I feel both how the heck? and yay! I was at Norwecon when you won the Philip K Dick award and I wished you had been there-I really wanted to meet you-but now I get to read more of your books. As you can see, this has nothing to do with the GIveaway
I LOVE Spin State and Spin Control.
A fan,
Michael
So who won?