Teaser Tuesday [September 6]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of Books and a Beat. 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 made sure no one was watching, then smoothed the paper flat again. It was a photo. A photo of a girl with long dark hair and matching dark eyes focused just out of the frame. The girl was me.

— The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall

Teaser Tuesday [July 12]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of Books and a Beat. 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).

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This week's teaser:


His friendly face suddenly becomes serious. "You're naming your collector's-item, kick-ass sword that's made to main and kill, specifically designed to bring your ginormous enemies to their knees and hear the lamentation of their women—Pooky Bear?"

— World After by Susan Ee

Teaesr Tuesday [June 28]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of Books and a Beat. 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:


"Hello," I said. "This is Apollo."
Static.
"The god Apollo," I said, thinking perhaps I should be more specific. "Is Percy Home?"

— The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan

Teaser Tuesday [May 24]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of Books and a Beat. 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:



"Hey there," Glass said, feeling her fear and sorrow melt away for a moment. "It's okay. You're okay. We're here, Luke. We made it. Welcome to Earth."


— Homecoming by Kass Morgan

Teaser Tuesday [April 19]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of Books and a Beat. 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:


Some written materials were censored by the UTA and had to be reconstructed by our commtechs, though profanity remains censored as per your instruction. Sure, the story kicks off with the deaths of thousands of people, but god forbid there be cussing in it, right?

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Teaser Tuesday [April 12]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of Books and a Beat. 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 am different from all these other girls surrounding me because marrying Bishop Lattimer has not fulfilled my destiny. My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

— The Book of Ivy by Amy Engel

Teaser Tuesday [March 22]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jenn of Books and a Beat. 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 is brought to you by a reread:


"If you are the son of Poseidon," Echidna hissed, "you would not fear water. Jump, Percy Jackson. Show me that water will not harm you. Jump and retrieve your sword. Prove your bloodline."

— Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

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 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