Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by The Purple Booker. If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of The Purple Booker.

This week my teaser comes from Queen of Nothing by Holly Black, the third and final book in the Folk of the Air trilogy. I was trying this month to stick to galleys but when I spied this in the bookshop I couldn’t resist and started it pretty much immediately. As this is the third book I’ll add a warning here that while I’ve chosen the spoiler free teaser there are mild spoilers in the blurb below.

My Teaser

Maybe she wanted to play the great game. Maybe she thought of all the things he could do for her if he were sitting on the throne.

Pg44 Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

Blurb

He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics.

And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity…