Teaser Tuesday

Time for us to join the land of memes again! =) Teaser Tuesday (hosted by The Purple Booker) is great for finding new books to add to your TBR pile and it's really simple to play along. Just ...

• 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! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

This week, our teaser comes from the soon-to-be-released novel, THE ADDRESS by Fiona Davis

"Theo strode into the room but stopped when he spotted Sara. For a moment the two remained frozen, their eyes fused on each other, before the young girl rushed to him."

Ooohhh ... I just started reading this novel so I haven't gotten to this part yet but I can feel the tension. Is it anger? Sexual? Whatever it is, I can't wait to find out! - Mandy

What are you reading? Let us know in the comments below!

{Teaser Post} LIFE IN A RUT by JD Hollyfield

 

Life in a Rut, Love Not Included by J.D. Hollyfield

Contemporary Romance

Having it all isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

When Sarah Sullivan’s perfect life blows up in front of her, she finds herself crawling back to the one place she never saw herself returning: Home.

At thirty-one, Sarah had it all. Perfect job, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. When all that is taken away from her, she is left heartbroken and angry and desperate enough to let her life swallow her whole…for a while.

Fending off love and the pursuit of happiness completely, Sarah vows to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. She creates a list of goals for herself—starting with a much needed shower—and constructs a plan to dig herself out of her rut. What she doesn’t plan for is meeting the arrogant new employee her parents have hired to work on an addition to their home. Enter Jack Calloway, the handsome, charming, lickable foreman with an insatiable effect on Sarah’s girly parts.

Jack accepts the job, but gets more than he bargained for. Unable to ignore his racing hormones—and calm his temper—over the obnoxious woman who clouds his judgment, Jack pulls her in and steals her heart until she finally surrenders. But is he up for the challenge of picking up the pieces of Sarah’s broken heart? Can he carry her out of her rut?

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{Teaser Tuesday}

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

 

Mandy's Teaser:

"Want to get the gun away from my head?" she growled.

"What, am I scaring you now?"

"As incompetent as you've been so far tonight? Oh, yeah. Absolutely."

Sleepwalker

Author: Karen Robards

Release Date: December 27, 2011

Publisher: Gallery Books

I appreciate a healthy dose of sarcasm, so I enjoyed finding this passage in this book.

{Teaser Tuesday}

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

 

Kate's Teaser:

There wasn't much Gansey didn't like about flying. He liked airports, with their masses of people all doing things, and he liked planes, with their thick-paned windows and fold-out trays. The way that a jet charged down a runway reminded him of how the Camero pressed him back in the driver's seat when he hit the gas.

And then he said what he couldn't say before. He asked, "Can I ... can I press charges?"

The Raven Boys

Author: Maggie Stiefvater

Release Date: September 18, 2012

Publisher: Scholastic Press

{Teaser Tuesday}

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

Kathy's Teaser:

For a magical creature, my unicorn sure poops a lot. Shouldn't its feces be more amazing? It looks and smells like ordinary horse manure.

Poop is poop. However, if you examined unicorn feces under an electron microscope you could probably decode the meaning of life.

FAQ: Volumes One Through Ten, Kindle Location 1937/3101

Author: Buck Tanner

Release Date: April 20, 2012

Publisher: CPA Publishing

Mandy's Teaser:

I wanted Tristan to fall in love with Branna so I could have Mark all to myself and take all his soda cups to the garbage every day. What a blissful life we would live together once the love philtre had worn off.

Tris & Izzie, Kindle version - Chapter 7 @ 23%

Author: Mette Ivie Harrison

Release Date: September 11, 2012

Publisher: EgmontUSA

{Teaser Tuesday}

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

Charlene's Teaser:

The angels had also become visible to them, and the humans screamed in desperation for their help. But the celestial beings silently watched as the catastrophic events unfolded on a world which the Creator once called "good."

Angelic Warfare: The Stones of Fire, page 111

Author: Bolko Zimmer

Release Date: April 14, 2011

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Mandy's Teaser:

On Sunday morning, on bended knees, instead of pleading for a cure or more time, I gave thanks for all the goodness in my life. It's the strangest thing, but I felt so much better, so much closer to God by saying thank you instead of begging please.

Twelve Months, page 185

Author: Steven Manchester

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Publisher: The Story Plant

{Teaser Tuesday}

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

Kathy's Teaser (#1):

"Do you know what this is, Samson?" Pokey asked.

"Looks like a medicine bundle. Ain't you supposed to sing a song when you open it?"

"Don't have to with this one. Nobody ever had medicine like this. I ain't never showed it to anyone before."

"What are those teeth?"

"Coyote teeth. Coyote claws, coyote fur. I don't tell people about it anymore because they all say I'm crazy, but my spirit helper is Old Man Coyote."

"He's just in stories," Sam said. "There isn't any Old Man Coyote."

Coyote Blue, Page 28

Author: Christopher Moore

Release Date: March 18, 2008

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Kathy's Teaser (#2):

"Robert, I got a phone call from some lady named Dr. Gale who said she wanted to talk to me. She said she is your psychiatrist. I have debated talking to the lady. If I do, I will tell her all I know about you. Not to save you, understand? Just to clear the air. This being the last time I ever discuss you with anyone."

The Blue Poppy, Page 168

Author: Robert W. Welkos

Release Date: May 23, 2012

Publisher: CreateSpace

{Teaser Tuesday}

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

Kate's Teaser:

He offered me a thin smile. I wanted him to know it was me who killed him. The Keepers have never been good at knowing who we are when we're wolves.

and

But I was a warrior, and love's scars weren't so different from battle scars.

Bloodrose, Pages 174 & 368 respectively

Author: Andrea Cremer

Release Date: August 7, 2012 (Reprint Edition)

Publisher: Speak

Mandy's Teaser:

Damien couldn't erase what had happened but he was determined to do whatever he could to crush out all reminders. By removing their child from her arms. By replacing Pearl with his own progeny. By controlling every aspect of her days and nights.

He was trapping her in a cold, soulless hell to serve his own selfish purpose.

And seeing the flicker of horror she couldn't quite hide, he smiled in satisfaction.

Seeker of Shadows, Page 241

Author: Nancy Gideon

Release Date: May 29, 2012

Publisher: Pocket Books

{Teaser Tuesday}

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

Kate's Teaser:

"You're starving," he whispered.

"We don't have enough food to survive the winter," the man said with a hopeless shrug. "We petitioned the Population Police for help, but they said it was our own fault, our own problem. We made a pact after that, that we would not listen to them anymore. We would not be ... weak."

"You're giving up," Luke said in disbelief.

"We're free," the man replied.

Among the Free, last book in the Shadow Children series

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Release Date: July 24, 2007

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Kathy's Teaser (1):

"In contrast, all I can say is that I'm the Queen of the Vampires. Though I wisely left that out on my application. Well, actually, I'm not the Queen of the Vampires, but if anyone asked, it's easier to explain if I said that, except I'd have to kill them afterwards."

Pure Healing, Ebook location 16/4042

Author: Aja James

Release Date: May 4, 2012

Publisher: Aja James

Kathy's Teaser (2):

"Sprinkle! Sprinkle! No! Bad Dog! No!" the owner chastised while she pulled at the small body, stretching Martha's pant leg to incredible lengths in the process. Martha wondered what her own reaction should be as she watched the five percent spandex of her pants reach its limit. She knew there was a lot at stake here, that her reaction to this crisis was everything.

Fourteen Interviews, Ebook location 131/2350

Author: Barbara Bayes

Release Date: May 30, 2012

{Teaser Tuesday} #21 - Parental Advisory

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

Kathy's Teaser:

"When she reads it, it's going to kill her. I've been trying to figure out how to stop this, but -"

She started sobbing and then swallowed hard, trying to stop, not wanting him to see her like this.

Barefoot Girls, Ebook location 4833

Author: Tara McTiernan

Release Date: July 2, 2012

Publisher: CreateSpace

Mandy's Teaser:

"Meep!"

"Shut up!"

It's round about then that I lose my temper. "Why the fuck d'ya keep doing that?" I scream.

"Shut up!" the monster honks back.

"Shut the fuck up!" I tell it.

"Shut up!"

"SHUT! UP!"

"Shut up!"

Flustered by all the shouting, the monkey honks his nose repeatedly in alarm. As if repetition breeds comprehension.

"Meep! Meep! Meep!"

Graysmark stiffens at my side. Seeing clearly where this exchange is going. Knowing implicitly what's gonna happen next. Trying to throw the conversational equivalent of a fireproof blanket on the situation, he says, "I think it's a kind of distress signal."

"Shut up!"

He might just've well hurled water onto blazing oil.

"Kill it!" I command.

"Shut up!"

"Meep! Meep! Meep!"

"But, your excellency, I fear their realm is in peril and they ..."

"Kill them both!"

"Shut up!"

"Meep! Meep! Meep!"

I don't ask him again.

Forever A-Men, Pages123-124

Author: John Trevillian

Copyright: March 1, 2012

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd.

Side Note: I know my teaser was longer than usual, but I found this part hilarious when I came across it and had to share.

{Teaser Tuesday} #20

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Mizb at Should Be Reading. To participate, you need to:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser

Kate's Teaser:

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," Matthias muttered. He didn't think she could hear him, but her eyelids fluttered - once, twice ... Then, amazingly, they opened all the way.


... and ...


You couldn't stand by when the Population Police were killing children.

Among the Enemy

The Shadow Children Series: Book 6

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Release Date: August 22, 2006

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Charlene's Teaser:

"There should be a button on the side of our heads like they have on hair-dryer plugs."

"A reset button?"

"Yeah, and if you were doing it (something stupid) but you couldn't, like, reach or something,  your friend could push the button for you and save you from your own stupidity."

Deep Down True, Page 218

Author: Juliette Fay

Release Date: January 25, 2011

Publisher: Penguin Books

Kathy's Teaser, #1:

No squall could frighten Dany, though. Daenerys Stormborn, she was called, for she had come howling into the world on distant Dragonstone as the greatest storm in the memory of Westeros howled outside, a storm so fierce that it ripped gargoyles from the castle walls and smashed her father's fleet to kindling.

A Storm of Swords, Page 106

Author: George R. R. Martin

Release Date: March 4, 2003

Publisher: Bantam

Kathy's Teaser, #2:

Irena was furious to be handled so roughly, but then she saw that the gendarme was a young boy, frightened, probably from the countryside, lucky to have a job at all. Most likely, he had no use for the Jews before the war; he was paid to mistreat them.

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project, Page 119

Author: Jack Mayer

Release Date: March 28, 2011

Publisher: Long Trail Press

Kathy's Teaser, #3:

They had removed the body of the thief from the study using a folding cot from Kristoll's basement as a stretcher. They used it again to carry the body from the trunk of Kristoll's Ford up the hill and to the clearing.

Bad Things Happen, Page 25

Author: Harry Dolan

Release Date: June 16, 2010

Publisher: Berkley Trade

Mandy's Teaser, #1:

She could bring terror to the neighborhood by pulling that mask over her head. Merchants would scream, "Lollipop, lollipop," and rush to the deepest corner of their shops.

Marilyn the Wild, Page 234 of The Isaac Quartet

Author: Jerome Charyn

Release Date: June 7, 2002 (Original Release Date: 1976)

Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows

Mandy's Teaser, #2:

"Me?" I asked. "Why me?" I turned to my mother. "Is Daddy trying to pimp me out?" I expected her to laugh. Instead she said, "He means well."

"'He means well'? What kind of answer is that?"

She just shrugged and went back to her glass of pinot grigio and reading the latest issue of Vanity Fair.

Anne of Hollywood, Page 93

Author: Carol Wolper

Release Date: July 17, 2012

Publisher: Gallery Books