Teaser Tuesday

Miz B at Should Be Reading sponsors Teaser Tuesdays asking that you to: 

• Grab your current read.

• Let the book fall open to a random page.

• Share with us two (2) sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

•  Share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

This week's teaser is from a book I pick up last week at the library call Past World by Ian Beck

What if all of London were really an amusement park--a whole city returned to Victorian times to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? That's the wildly original premise of Ian Beck's Pastworld, a high-stakes mystery set in a simulated past.

Eve is a lifelong resident of Pastworld who doesn't know she's living in a theme park until a mysterious threat forces her to leave home. Caleb is a visiting tourist who finds the lawlessness of the past thrilling--until he suddenly becomes a fugitive from an antiquated justice system. And in the midst of it all, in the thick London fog a dark and deadly figure prowls, claiming victim after victim. He's the Fantom, a creature both of the past and of the present, in whose dark purpose Caleb and Eve will find their destinies combined.

Page-turning, complex, and haunting, Pastworld masterfully exposes the human experience of the past, of violence, of technology, and of entertainment (from Powell Books).

Here is the teaser:

Since his first mysterious appearance and his daring crimes the Fantom has assumed a special place in the mythology of Pastworld. But he has an Achilles' heel.