Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
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My Tease for this week is from
Strange Magic
A Yancy Lazarus Novel
by James A. Hunter
My Tease from 32% in the ARC eBook
I went through the last few things I could remember:
I’d been pumped full of tranquilizers, busted a hole in the back wall of The Full House, got shot in the ass, and had, eventually, passed out in dog pee under a car. Right?
So how’d I end up Saran-wrapped to a table in white-picket suburbia?
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Synopsis
Yancy Lazarus is having a bad day: there’s a bullet lodged in his butt cheek, his face looks like the site of a demolition derby, and he’s been saran-wrapped to a banquet table. He never should have answered the phone. Stupid bleeding heart—helping others in his circles is a good way to get dead.
Just ask the gang members ripped to pieces by some kind of demonic nightmare in LA. As a favor to a friend, Yancy agrees to take a little looksee into the massacre and boom, he’s stuck in a turf war between two rival gangs, which both think he’s pinch-hitting for the other side. Oh, and there’s also a secretive ass-hat with some mean ol’ magical chops and a small army of hyena-faced, body- snatching baddies. It might be time to seriously reconsider some of his life choices.
Yancy is a bluesman, a rambler, a gambler, but not much more. Sure, he can do a little magic—maybe even more than just a little magic—but he knows enough to keep his head down and stay clear of freaky-deaky hoodoo like this business in LA. Somehow though, he’s been set up to take a real bad fall—the kind of very permanent fall that leaves a guy with a toe tag. Unless, of course, he can find out who is responsible for the gangland murders, make peace in the midst of the gang feud, and take out said magical ass-hat before he hexes Yancy into an early retirement. Easy right? Stupid. Bleeding. Heart.
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I’m really enjoying this gritty, freaky story. Lovin Yancy too.
Do you like your hero flawed, damaged, kinda of not so perfect?
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The poor guy sounds like he’s having a pretty bad day.
Sure does. LOL This is a really fun one.
Good question! LOL Sounds like a book I would enjoy!
It’s crazy good, Freda!
OMG! That is the true definition of a bad day….thanks for sharing and piquing my interest. And thanks for visiting my blog.
I am having such fun with this one!
I’d like to know the answer to that too. Poor guy!
Things don’t get much better for the poor guy.LOL
That is too good not to check it out! That is a very bad day!
His day isn’t over yet! It comes out around the 16th of January and I’m thrilled the author gave me an ARC. What an awesome surprise this story turned out to be!
Wow, that is a really bad day he is having. This sounds like a very interesting book..lol.
He probably should have stayed in bed. LOL
Sounds awesome.
You’d like this guy!
Sounds interesting. Dark yet with some humor. Thanks for sharing it!
I enjoy some humor. Lightens things up until the next bad thing. LOL