Kristen Callihan's Winterblaze, book 3 in her Darkest London series, is on many readers' must-buy-get-outta-my-way-no-really-move-it shopping lists this week, and to celebrate the release, she and her publisher, Hachette, have put together a really spiffy prize pack.
Here, have a look:
The winner will receive:
- 1 pink fan (this one can NOT be used for beheadings)
- 1 bottle of Sephora by OPI nail polish in “Shiny Dancer” (dark silver)
- 1 leather notebook (such as the one Winston used to tell his story)
- 1 sterling silver necklace and topaz snowflake pendant
- A set of the Darkest London books signed by Kristen Callihan
The items are all related to various characters in the series – and I rather covet that pendant.
Plus five runners-up will receive a complete set of the four books in the Darkest London series in digital format, including the prequel novella, which is digital only:
To enter, leave a comment sharing your favorite or funniest unexpected weapon (and if it's a fan, awesome!). I'll select the winners at random on Friday 1 March.
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Good luck!
My 4-year-old niece is a demon with a wrapping paper tube.
A chamber pot, made obsolete by modern plumbing but very effective for a damsel in distress way back in the day.
I try to avoid weapons in general but there are some mighty sturdy books in my library. Both in size and content.
Since several people mentioned the pen idea…I’m going to mention the flour and chocolate frosting scene in Fried Green Tomatoes. Nothing like a good food fight!
Poison lipstick. It dropped Mal in Serenity, which was hot. Also Gilligan, in Gilligan’s Island, which was so not.
Hairspray – one of the best of the weapons used in Gini Koch’s Alien novels.
The heel of a stiletto shoe always comes in handy for an unexpected weapon!
Hairspray; either used like mace, or in combination with a lighter (ends up being a sort of flame thrower). I can’t remember where I’ve seen it used though.
High heel shoes, long and pointy!
Good old cast iron pan!
Don’t know if it’s really unexpected these days but a good pair of high heels!
Crab claws come in very handy LOL and really looking forward to reading the book
My favorite is still the Vulcan neck pinch.
The frying pan incident in Tangled. That is priceless. Awesome giveaway.
From Ratatouille: “I killed a man… with *this* thumb.”
A frozen leg of lamb. You can then cook it and feed the police investigating the murder of your husband (from a Roald Dahl story, don’t remember the name of it).
Riley Jensen (Keri Arthur’s Guardian series) had wooden heels on her high heels so she could use then to kill vampires in a pinch.
Oh! Rosa Klebb’s old-lady shoe with a retractable fugu-poison-tipped knife in the toe! In From Russia With Love! I had to look up which Bond book it was, and just learned that Klebb’s name is a pun on a Russian phrase for women’s rights, khleb i rozy (bread and roses…which is of course an American labor movement/feminist phrase too). (BTW, I absolutely DEVOURED Firelight. Callihan is terrific. No fugu-tipped old lady shoes for her.)
Stephanie Plum’s cars. Not often used offensively, but prone to spectacular explosions.
Poison in the Poutine.
Well the first thing that came to mind was Roald Dahl’s leg of lamb. However, so many have come up with that one too, I’ll go with a different variation on a ‘leg’ theme, and go with that Bond Villainess who used to crush people between her thighs… 🙂
My cooking!
The used tissues when I have a cold. My sister and I have been known to engage in epic battles employing what we like to call biological weapons of mass destruction.
I’m not sure if this counts as a “weapon,” but the first thing that came to mind was in the movie Piranha 3D (what can I say? smart bitches trashy movies), this girl is swimming in the lake, and the piranha somehow found itself inside of her for whatever reason. Then, she later had relations with a man…and…well, you can guess where this is going I expect…
Fermented shark. It worked on Gordon Ramsay so I don’t see why it shouldn’t work on villains and vampires.
Thorn’s jewelry in Samurai Games – beautiful and deadly!
My Louboutin – I was real mad 😉
I loved the frying pan used in Tangled.
Congratulations to Kristen Callihan and her latest release!
I’d love it if some heroine could throw a fistfull of glitter at the antagonist to escape. Because glitter is awesome.
Definitely a good old-fashioned hatpin (though knitting needles are a close second).
I also thought of the leg of lamb from Dahl and the icicle from Agatha Christie, but I think my favorite is still the poisoned toothpaste from Georgette Heyer.
I love the overstuffed backpack/purse as a weapon. Perhaps partially because one or both is always on my person… Ha!
My favorite unexpected weapon is a shoe – nobody expects a shoe (and depending on the heel it could be really painful!)
My purse! It’s big and heavy enough!
Definitely my favourite unexpected weapon (and funniest because this movie is hilariously bad) the carrot used as a murder weapon by Clive Owen in Shoot ‘Em Up. Just unforgettable.
Icicles – deadly sharp and the evidence melts and can be mopped up.
My favourite unexpected weapon would be my bag since I have it with me all the time so it’s handy to wield it when necessary.
I remember reading something where the character tied a heavy ring into the end of her braid, and when she spun around, it would whack people! I thought that was kind of cool, and not the usual way you would use a ring as a weapon.
I don’t iron very often and I was reminded why the other day—I dropped said iron (fortunately, not turned on at the time) onto my already-bruised toe. Yeeouch!
My sister and I fought/fight relentlessly throughout our teen and adult years. I have become quite adept at using a tea towel as a weapon. There were even the rare times that I managed to wield it with enough skill to disarm her. She still quakes if I reach for one mid-battle.