Teaser Tuesday #7

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week's book is:

THE PLEDGE

The Pledge #1

by Kimberly Derting 

hardcover, 323 pages

Published November 15th, 2011 by Margaret K. McElderry

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In the violent country of Ludania, the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. The smallest transgression, like looking a member of a higher class in the eye while they are speaking their native tongue, results in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina has always been able to understand the languages of all classes, and she's spent her life trying to hide her secret. The only place she can really be free is the drug-fueled underground clubs where people go to shake off the oppressive rules of the world they live in. It's there that she meets a beautiful and mysterious boy named Max who speaks a language she's never heard before ... and her is secret is almost exposed. 

Charlie is intensely attracted to Max, even though she can't be sure where his real loyalties lie. As the emergency drills give way to real crisis and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that Charlie is the key to something much bigger: her country's only chance for freedom from the terrible power of a deadly regime.

Page 192 ~ "Xander's grin had the same predatory quality I'd seen at the club. "Because we were responsible for the attack on the city. We made them go off." ~

Page 264 ~ "It was easier to be around her when she was like this. She made me feel the same way, despite the fact that she'd just informed me I was about to meet the queen." ~

TEASER TUESDAY

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week's book is:

A KISS OF SHADOWS

Meredith Gentry Series #1

By: Laurell K. Hamilton

Paperback, 469 pages

Published: February 26, 2002 by Ballantine Books

Teaser #1 - Page 103

"Don't believe all of the stories you hear, Jeremy."

Teaser #2 - Page 366

~I brought my gaze back down to the thin tiny thorns on the vines directly over my head. They were small, but there were a lot of them, like a bristling armor of tiny pins.~

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 BOOK INFO
TITLE: Divergent
SERIES: Divergent #1
AUTHOR: Veronica Roth
PUBLICATION DATE: May 3rd, 2011

WHAT THE BACK COVER SAYS: Beatrice "Tris" Prior has reached the fateful age of sixteen, the stage at which teenager's in Veronica Roth's dystopian Chicago must select which of the five factions to join for life. Each faction represents a virtue: Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite. To the surprise of herself and her selfless Abnegation family, she chooses Dauntless, the path of courage. Her choice exposes her to demanding, violent initiation rites of this group, but it also threatens to expose a personal secret that could place her in mortal danger. Veronica Roth's young adult Divergent trilogy launches with a captivating adventure about love and loyalty playing out under the  most extreme circumstances.

MY TEASERS: ~Page 87~ "I open my eyes and for the first time stare openly at my own reflection. My heart rate picks up as I do, like I am breaking the rules and will be scolded for it."

~Page 246~ "I can't believe you got another tattoo," he says, shaking his head. "Why?" I say. "Because I'm a Stiff?" "No. Because you're...sensible." He smiles. His teeth are white and straight. "So what was your fear today, Tris?"

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Book: BETWEEN
By:Jessica Warman
Hardcover; 447 pages
Release Date: August 2, 2011

Elizabeth Valchar - pretty, popular and rich - wakes up the morning after her 18th birthday on the yacht where she'd been celebrating with her closest friends. A persistent thumping noise has roused her. When she goes to investigate, she finds her own drowned body is hitting the side of the boat. Liz is dead. She has no memory of what happened to her, and can only observe in horror the fallout of her death.

She's also joined by Alex Berg, a quiet boy from her high school who was killed by a hit-and-run driver. The two keep each other company, floating in and out of memories and trying to piece together the details of what happened to each of them.

In her regular life, Liz was a runner. It wasn't abnormal for her to run 8-10 miles per day. But as memories from closer to her death begin to surface, Liz finds that she'd been running much more than normal, and that she'd all but stopped eating. Liz's mother, who died when Liz was nine, had battled anorexia as well, and those around her worry that Liz was following in her mother's footsteps. But something more sinister was consuming Liz from the inside out...

Teasers:

"Of all the people to end up dead with," he says, shaking his head, "it had to be you, didn't it?" ~ Page 116

"Then what else did you see, Alex? Did you see what happened that night on the boat?" Something is changing. He begins to appear wispy, almost translucent. "What's happening to you? Alex?" ~ Page 388

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

Title: Sirensong
Series: #3 in the Faeriewalker Series
Author: Jenna Black

Page 55- "The last time that Ethan and I had gone out together was before the Erlking had sunk his claws into Ethan."

Page 221 - "The magic in the air grew thicker, no doubt the result of Keane raising his shield spells, but Ethan didn't attack him.

What is your teaser for today???

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

SHADOWSPELL by JENNA BLACK

BOOK #2 in the FAERIEWALKER SERIES

"This is such a nice surprise," She said as she pulled away. "I thought you couldn't come." I dropped my voice, not sure if the bouncers would kick me out if they heard me. "Yeah, well, we sort of snuck out." (pg 47)

I had a lot of reasons not to fully trust Ethan, but even so I didn't believe he'd force me to do anything I didn't want to do. My fear was that his powers of persuasion and my own desires would once again sweep my common sense away and I would forget why I had to stop. (pg 231)

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

Book: ALL JUST GLASS by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Page 59: The brief touch of lips to lips should have been comforting, but for some reason it gave her chills. How many times had Kristopher said he loved her? She had never said it back to him. Should she?

Page 137: Jay smiled, an expression that was strangely sharp and warm and biting all at once. "My abilities are every bit as advanced as yours are, Zachary Vida. They would have to be before I could even begin to read one of your line. And Sarah had every intention of dying the she approached us. She is desperate, she is scared, and I will say it if no one else will: I do not think she is, or ever will be, a monster. I think we are hunting innocent prey, and I do not like that.

Feel free to add your Teaser Tuesdays in the comments section below!