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.
Standard disclaimers apply: void where prohibited. Open to international residents to the extent permitted be law. Must be over 18 and ready for some kind of battle to win. Measure twice, cut once. The film may have been modified from its original version to fit your screen. Do not write below this line.
Good luck!
A trusty cast iron frying pan.
A book of course! Those things can crush a foot. And this I know from experience.
I like something that really isn’t a weapon, but is really useful and can be seen as a weapon depending on how you use it: The Sonic Screwdriver!
I’ve always been a fan of the classic knife in a boot. Particularly if they are pirate boots!
Wow, everybody wants this one! Or everybody just like weapons.
I like just your basic beverage as a weapon. Hot coffee or tea? Throw it in the face. Can of soda? Easy to grip and throw, hurts like a mother when it clonks against your skull.
Chopsticks…not the cool fancy ones, but the oh so awesome bought at the 99 cent store chopsticks.
Shelly Laurenston’s character Angela uses a toilet cistern cover as a weapon to knock out the hero in Here Kitty Kitty. (She also uses baseballs quite effectively too.)
Also if you like a killer fan – one features (although not as a used weapon) in Tamora Pierce’s Protector of the Small series – I think in the third book but I could be wrong.
When I think of unexpected weapons, my brain immediately goes to the pen in Grosse Point Blank. “Thanks for the pen.”
Oh good god, almost as fun as HaBO. I wanted it to be a sword stick, since I really like them, but My Mom’s Dr. Scholl’s sandal tossed like a boomerang at our heads when we were little was both surprising and surpisingly effective.
It also improved our knife hand block and downward dog, before we knew what they were. 🙂
Genitals…Really, think about it-How many romances have you read where the hero is mysteriously “tamed”(It’s even in the titles!), and the “feisty” heroine is calmer and less self-destructive all because of a little smexing? Takes the phrase “Is that a gun in your pocket or are you happy to see me?” to a whole next level, don’t it? ;-D
Don’t know if it quite qualifies as a weapon, but I was pelted by a rack of bras in Walmart once, up in Eureka, CA during an earthquake! Took me by surprise!
Mr. Pointy from Buffy!!
Knitting needles.
*raising hand* I can vouch for this one.
No need to ask how.
Best unexpected weapon is the frying pan as proven not only by Tangled (as previously mentioned) but the very excellent Fried Green Tomatoes! Towanda!
i think parasol. i’m rather partial to the one in the parasol protectorate series by gail carriger 🙂
A few people mentioned Jason Bourne, and I’m partial to him using a rolled up magazine as as a weapon!
It’s not MY weapon but I always loved that killer bowler hat the Chinese guy wore in the Bond movies.
I can’t remember where, but I once saw/read of the bad guy getting his throat cut by a thrown playing card. It would be a good skill to have. (Maybe the old Avengers TV show? Steed certainly had the bowler hat as weapon down.)
So, in 7th grade I hit Kyle Murphy over the head with a math text book. Really, book as weapon. What could be cooler?
Frying Pans! I snort-giggle every time I think about the way Eugene/Flynn says, after a very impressive fight sequence wielding Rapunzel’s frying pan, ‘Oh mama, I have got to get me one of these!’ 😀
Awesome giveaway!
I like sticks. Haha. I only realized this as I thought of what weapons I would yield, if I had to. The first time I took a self-defense class, I got a kubotan, which is like this six inch stick you can disguise as a keychain, innocuous enough. You use it in a grip to attack (stab/strike). I also like arnis, which is a Filipino martial art (I learned how because it was part of our PE class in high school – wish I pursued it), and we learned how to use single sticks (could be double sticks), which were about 30 inches in length. It’s awesome. Arnis, escrima … all part of kali … and if you’ve seen the Bourne movies, then you’ll know exactly what kind of combat I’m talking about … using the pen to fight, or the magazine, or the book? Crazy stuff.
Nothing better than a frying pan. Formidable weapon, but severely underused.
My favorite weapon is the “heaving bosom” of course ! What man isn’t disarmed by a nice pair of ta-ta’s ??? Get’s them everytime !On the unexpected note, I’d have to say my hubby’s morning breath ~for gosh sakes go brush your teeth STAT !
I’ve been re-reading some fav zombie books and the first that came to mind was a woman in a bathroom found a zombie in the shower and when he fell out she used the toilet seat to bash his brains in. and then she used the toilet. What? I know I wouldn’t have!! Gross!! 🙂
I actually have a gigantic sized (as in small melon-sized) spherical lollipop I bought in Switzerland a few years ago. It is surprisingly hefty and hard, and it can cause a lot of damage (I dropped it on my foot once. Many rude words were said). I wielded it as a weapon once when I heard odd noises coming from my front door while I should be alone for the weekend…
… turns out it was just my brother who had forgotten something and had had to travel all the way back across the country to get it.
I’m a personal fan of the cast iron frying pan in Tangled.
I loooooooooooooooove this series! Can’t wait for this next book. And congrats to Kristen on the success of her series! I’d have to say Alexa’s parasol of great many devices from the Parasol protectorate series.
When my hair is longer, I wear it up in twisted loops with hair sticks through the coils. One particular pair has rather sharp silver tips on the points. While this helps the sticks slide through my hair without snagging, it also makes them look badass, and friends call them my “Ninja Hair Sticks.” If only they were balanced for throwing, they’d be truly dangerous!
I’ve always had a soft spot for Amelia Peabody’s parasol. Then there’s Harry Dresden’s zombie dinosaur. That’s a weapon, right? However, the ultimate weird weapon? The frozen leg of lamb from “Lamb to the Slaughter.”
My favorite from media that I’ve watched/read would also be the frying pan from Tangled. However, if we’re just talking unexpected real life weapon, I like my car and house keys.
I love the saber “Slayer” in the Kate Daniels series. A weapon that kind of has a mind of its own… Interesting!
What a great giveaway!
I love the fight scene in Magic Strikes when the Kate and Curran are supposed to look inept for the first round of the Midnight Games, and Curran kills someone by head-butting him. Deadly forehead!
Hair sticks/chop sticks. Why would you ever mess with someone wearing or using those???
Sewing machine. You’re looking all innocent, making a blanket for your baby cousin. The enemy sneaks up behind you and BAM! You shove their hand in and now it is impaled and stitched to the fabric. Not only is this tactic immensely painful, but now they’re trapped and at your mercy.
Black eyed peas. Goodbye Earl.
I have two movie related ones-the first from Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers,where the monster mom takes out a guy with a corn cob(a partly eaten cob,to boot!) and from Daredevil,the hitman Bullseye uses an unfolded paper clip to shut up an insulting bar patron.
All Time Favorite: Poison Lipstick. Whether it’s to kill or simply knock out your target, how the heck to keep from getting yourself with it?!
Most Recently Read: A bust of Augustus Caesar wielded by the victim’s friend.
Had Used on ME: A remote control, flung at me from across the room by my grandmother, for not being quiet during her shows.
Have Used on Others: A birthday sombrero from Chevy’s FershMex.
Kristen’s books are fabulous! Love her weapon-toting heroine.
My favorite unexpected weapon would have to be Indiana Jones’ bullwhip.
I always enjoy the hatpin…