Teaser Tuesday [March 1]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

An instant later, the captain's door burst open, but the pirates were too late. She tossed the pluming taper into the room and heard footsteps stumble, and men cough, before the drugged smoke brought them down. Two down, thought Lila, stepping over their bodies. Thirteen to go.

— A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

Teaser Tuesday [February 9]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

"Well," Gansey said slowly, as thunder rumbled once more, "the illegal part is that we're going to Ronan's family's property, which he's not allowed to do."

Ronan flashed his teeth at her. "And the distasteful part is that we're burying a body."

— The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

Teaser Tuesday [February 2]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:


But then she flushed, hearing again President Cell Phone's voice saying I'll take care of it. She shot him a foul look, a real Calla number, and whirled back toward the kitchen. Neeve had to be wrong. She'd never fall in love with one of them.

— The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Teaser Tuesdsay [January 12]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:



 I throw back my head and scream. Somewhere in the house above, there is one who hears me. The one who buried me alive.

— The Fall by Bethany Griffin

Teaser Tuesday [December 8]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:



How strange. Blood had been all she'd wanted for months. And now she was drowning in it.

— The Wondrous and the Wicked by Page Morgan

Teaser Tuesday [December 1]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser, brought to you by another reread:

She stopped and looked back. For a moment Harry had the strangest feeling that she wanted to say something to him: She gave him an odd, tremulous look and seemed to teeter on the edge of speech, but then, with a little jerk of her head, she bustled out of the room after her husband and son.

— Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Teaser Tuesday [November 24]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

If the oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. So yeah. I'm fucked.

— The Martian by Andy Weir

Teaser Tuesday [November 17]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

"Loving someone is not a onetime thing, something earned once then secured forever. It's more like a human six-year-old, something delightful but also in need of vigilance and attention lest it fall out of a tree and break its wrist."

— Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown

Teaser Tuesday [November 10]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

"She's our lost princess. And she's coming home."

— Winter by Marissa Meyer

Teaser Tuesday [November 3]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

The pain was relentless, the agony never ending. She pleaded for death, but it never came.

— Fairest by Marissa Meyer

Teaser Tuesday [October 13]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser, brought to you by yet another Harry Potter reread:


Harry bent low to retrieve the book, and as he did so, he saw something scribbled along the bottom of the back cover in the same small, cramped handwriting as the instructions that had won him his bottle of Felix Felicis, now safely hidden inside a pair of socks in his trunk upstairs: This Book is the Property of the Half-Blood Prince.

— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Teaser Tuesday [October 6]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

"The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that I was covered in blood. The second thing I noticed was that this didn't bother me the way it should have."

— The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Teaser Tuesday [September 22]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

"Wait," I said, "first, you should know—under the boat, there's—"

And then the tarp was ripped away, and I never did finish that sentence.

— Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

Teaser Tuesday [September 8]

 

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

I hold perfectly still until the sharp pain becomes a mean little ache, until the blood flowing from my cut eases the hurt away with its warmth. I stay and I breathe and I sigh as, one by one, my eyes open. All one hundred of them. 

— Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay

Teaser Tuesday [August 25]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser comes from a reread:

Minho shrugged off Newt's hand and started his usual rant of sarcastic remarks, but Thomas had already tuned out, his heart's pace having kicked in to a rapid series of almost painful thumps. All he could think about was what had been tattooed on is own neck. That he was to be killed."

— The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner

Teaser Tuesday [June 30]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser:

I cover my mouth, trying not to cry. A cure. A cure for Cody. I'd do anything for that. I listen as the woman pauses. "There can only be one champion."

— Fire and Flood by Victoria Scott

Teaser Tuesday [June 16]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser:

We walked in silence, until Frank started to pick up the pace, moving into a jog. I started jogging along with him, speeding up even as we went faster, as he pushed our pace to the edge of where we'd gone, understanding that sometimes, you just needed to run. 

— Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

Teaser Tuesday [May 19]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser, courtesy of my Harry Potter reread:

Harry slumped back in his seat and groaned. He would have liked Cho to discover him sitting with a group of very cool people laughing their heads off at a joke he had just told; he would not have chosen to be sitting with Neville and Loony Lovegood, clutching a toad and dripping in Stinksap.

— Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Teaser Tuesday [May 12]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser:

Magic was dead, the Fae were banished or executed, and she would never again have anything to do with the rise and fall of kingdoms. She wasn't fated for anything. Not anymore.

— Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Teaser Tuesday [May 5]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser:

The stupid thing was that James didn't know what he'd died of. He didn't even know he was dead. Er, was going to die. Would be dead. The longer you thought about this time travel stuff, the more complicated it got.

— Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier