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RELEASE ME
Chasing Fire #2
Ann Marie Walker & Amy K. Rogers
Releasing July 21st, 2015
Berkley/Intermix
The second in the “seriously sexy and sinfully steamy”* Chasing Fire series, about a pain too deep to forgive and a passion too hot to forget…
Alessandra Sinclair knows that Hudson Chase is the last man she should want. The boy from the wrong side of the tracks has grown into a man who would do anything to get ahead, even if it means breaking Allie’s heart. But whenever she’s near him, the attraction between them is undeniable. And now that they’re working together, keeping her distance from Hudson is almost as impossible as keeping her feelings in check…
Hudson already lost Allie once and he refuses to lose her again. He’s determined to use their new business partnership to rekindle the spark he knows is still there. Only the closer he gets to winning her over, the clearer it becomes there are still secrets that could tear them apart for good…
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“I hate you,” she whispered. Her words were venom but they lacked conviction. Her hands flattened against his chest and her biceps tensed as if she were going to push him away, but instead her fingers curled around the fine fabric of his suit jacket, holding him in place.
Hudson took a deep breath through his nose. His heart pounded, pumping adrenaline through his body. “You wish you did,” he rasped in her ear, then tugged the lobe between his teeth.
Allie’s head thudded back against the elevator wall. “Bastard,” she breathed.
“I know, baby, I know.”
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Though thousands of miles apart, Ann Marie Walker and Amy K. Rogers are in constant contact, plotting story lines and chatting about their love of alpha males, lemon drop martinis and British supermodel, David Gandy. You can find them on twitter as @AnnMarie_Walker and @Amy_KRogers.
Amy K. Rogers
Ann Marie Walker
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, that allows us to share a teaser from our current reads each week. Anyone can join, and the rules are simple. Just:
Grab your current read
Open it to a random page
Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
Be careful not to include spoilers! (You don't want to ruin the book for anyone!)
And make sure to share the title and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesdays can add those books to their TBR piles in case they want to.
Here's our teaser for this week:
"That's my favorite Vonnegut quote' she said, pointing at the line I urge you to please notice when you are happy Hudson felt himself blush, wondering whether to confess that he had been the one to write it on the chalkboard a week ago." - Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
What teasers do you guys have this week? Tell us in the comments!
I’ve been researching and trying to write a story based on my family’s experience in World War II for about ten years now, ever since Dad started to open up about his experience. For ten years we’ve been sitting down with each other, talking about events, locations and his experiences, getting clear about the “when” and “wheres” of his time as a prisoner. When we first sat down together, it was difficult for him to remember just how many prisons he was in and how long he had been a prisoner. But, together, we pieced the puzzle together. I’ve read that “why” isn’t a very spiritual question. I kind of like that insight.
I’ve tried five different times to write the story as a novel. And, well…it just wasn’t happening. Each attempt fell apart for one reason or another. And then, after I’d taken only a few storyboarding classes at Art Center at Night, creative fireworks went off and I saw the whole story. I like to write my novels cinematically, so I guess the transition to screenplays is natural, even as I have a lot to learn. Part of the reason why this story hasn’t come together as a novel has to do with the fact that the scope of the story has seemed so epic to me, spanning several generations, and like my screenplay writing instructor said, “that’s the trouble with true stories”…all the details. The story needed focus and that’s what I’ve been working very hard on over the past few months. Here is the opening scene from Gamelan.
EXT. JAPANESE POW CAMP, TJIMAHI, OCCUPIED JAVA 1943
A bamboo and barbed wire fence. An old, white man’s emaciated wrinkled, shaky hand clenches three cigarettes. The boney, but steady hand of HANS (19) takes the cigarettes from the old man.
HANS hammers a crooked nail into a rough-hewn wooden plank.
NINETY YEAR OLD MAN WITH A DUTCH ACCENT (V.O.)
Liberty is something you can’t understand until it’s taken away. You become a different person. You become a prisoner. You learn what it is to survive.
Last weekend my family had a reunion where we celebrated Dad’s 90th birthday!
Happy Birthday Dad!
Congrats to Jodi, Kerri, Diana, Aimee & Daniela, winner of THE STORYTELLERS Cover Reveal e-ARC giveaway! There’s more giveaways on the book blog tour starting next week, and lots of exclusive excerpts, interviews and the book trailer & dream cast reveals too:D I hope you can join in the fun that gets started on 9.9.13. Thanks so much for all your support!
By: Shelbie, Amanda and Jenni,
on 9/25/2012
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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 teasers: "'Tis tempting fate to say a ship is unsinkable'" "After all, I had given something. I had saved a boy's life"
I would love if you commented below with your own teaser because I'm always looking for new books to read!
XOXO,
Jenni
By: Shelbie, Amanda and Jenni,
on 9/18/2012
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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 teasers:" 'What happens if I get bit or scratched?' 'Monsters have venom of their own. Each one is different. Most only cause unbearable pain if not treated quickly enough.' 'Most?' she asks."
- p.167 Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs
Feel free to comment down below and go to Should Be Reading to link your own Teaser tuesday!Love Always,
Amanda
Starting off getting back into things with the great Teaser Tuesday! If you are looking for a way to get integrated into the book blogger community this is an easy one to start with! Just go to the book you are reading at the moment, open to a random page and list two teaser sentances, then link below and Should be Reading but make sure to comment with links to your own Teasers or if you don't have a blog you can just post two lines in the comments! 
This one is from Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter, which I finished, but I don't have the book I'm currently reading with me right now so this will have to work :) This is from page 77: "What am I doing here, Bex?" I asked, suddenly afraid. "What time is it? How did I get here?!"
There you go! Best teaser on the internet.
Be sure to post a link to your teaser or post it below!
xoxo,
Shelbie
I just started A Brush of Darkness by Allison Pang, and so far I am enjoying it. I haven’t figured out Brystion yet – is he really as big a jerk as he occasionally comes across? Talk about harsh!
| Brystion snorted. “You did a shit job on Abby’s as well. Whatever talent you once had is gone. Have some dignity and get on with your life.” The artist’s mouth flattened into a sour line. |
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!
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Work has been stressful lately, so I have turned to my favorite comfort reads; Harlequin series romances. Like tasty bonbons, I can’t get enough of them when real life gets to be overwhelming.
| "I have a ballroom?” She jumped up from the table. “I have a chandelier the size of a helicopter?” “You’re not heading for the Scotch again, are you?” he asked warily. “Certainly not.” She loved this place. “I’m heading for the ballroom.” |
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!
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Once I wrote fifteen thousand words of a novel over the course of a few days because the idea wouldn't leave me alone. This was a few months back, and I haven't written a word of it since, mainly due to 1) time limitations (I do have a novel I am supposed to rewrite) and 2) There is a huge gap between where I stopped writing the story and how I think it will end, and I have no idea what to put in between. Perhaps it will work better as a shorter story.
Here is an excerpt! It's written from the perspective of a girl called Andy. She's very organised, particular and logical. She catalogues her entire life. She's an aspiring scientist. She's a big fan of rationality and predictability. Her grandmother is her closest friend, and her exact opposite (crazy and fun and unpredictable), and the novel begins with her funeral, and occurs over a span of an exceptionally weird 24 hours in Andy's life. If I keep working on this I will come up with a better title. Tell me what you think.
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How strange to make up someone’s face and dress them in their best clothes when no one will ever look at them again. Perhaps this is just a tradition left over from ancient times, like the Egyptian kings and queens thinking that all the treasures in their tombs would go with them to the afterlife. Maybe in the future, when everyone in our society advances to the level I am pretty sure I have evolved to now, we will be a bit more realistic and bury human bodies under crops or something, because I hear they are a very good natural fertiliser. I would not mind eating food that has been fertilised by people who are already deceased, or people eating food fertilised by my corpse. As long as no one was specifically killed for fertiliser and no one ate a stray limb, I feel it would be fairly all right and a lot more sensible than what we are doing currently.
‘I want to be a cremated so I can’t come back as a zombie,’ Grandma told me once.
‘Cremation is terrible for the environment, worse than burying people. It causes a lot of pollution,’ I told her. ‘And also urns are a bit creepy. I always see in movies that people accidentally eat the ashes or something. Apparently it’s common.’
‘I’ll be dead! I won’t care about the environment. I don’t care a whole lot now, to be terribly un-PC. I’ll be cremated and you can paint me into a portrait of myself.’ She tilted her chin up and placed a hand underneath, gazing up at the wall clock of our kitchen thoughtfully. ‘Make me look like a fascist dictator, would you?’
‘That’s even creepier and I can’t paint.’
‘You’ve got plenty of time to learn. Miserable people live forever – you’re stuck with me until I’m at least a hundred.’
I don’t know whether or not Grandma was serious about this, but she didn’t have anything in her will about it, so Mum is burying her and having a big church ceremony. The part where everyone gets drunk at the wake in an RSL is probably the only part Grandma would actually agree with and, if she were here, enjoy.
Of course I have a will and very detailed wishes, kept in my filing cabinet, but I cannot legally file them until I am eighteen. If I die between now and then, everything goes to my mother and she will probably bury my body in a casket like she has done with Grandma, and that is not very environmentally sustainable, is it? Eventually we’ll run out of places to bury people and wood to build coffins.
Grandma did not live that long, by the way. Grandma lived to seventy. This is statistically significantly lower than the average lifespan of a woman in this country. That is four times the age I am now. Grandma could have had a quarter life crisis when she was my age. Sometimes I am thinking I am having a quarter life crisis or a fifth life crisis, and then I remember that I feel like this all the time, and I probably felt as if I was having a fourteenth life crisis when I was five. I don’t think I knew a lot o
I am enjoying Welcome, Caller, This is Chloe by Shelley Coriell, even though I am not convinced by the major conflict between the protagonist and her BFF. Despite this, the writing style is fun and fresh, and I like Chloe’s breezy personality.
| He didn’t look up, but a wave of red crept along the part of his neck not covered by his scarf. “I’m starting the essay on excise taxes that’s due in seven minutes.” A page of bright white sat on his desktop. Seriously, he was on the first paragraph of a three-page essay. “Wow, Dunc, you could use some serious time management lessons.” |
Last year, I enjoyed The A Circuit by Georgina Bloomberg and Catherine Hapka, so I am excited to see if I enjoy the follow up as much. I just started this one, so I haven’t formed any opinions of it as of yet.
| This was usually about the point when people started to zone out and look bored, no matter how polite they were trying to be. And that was okay. Sure, Tommi was pretty much obsessed with riding and showing. That didn’t mean she couldn’t talk about anything else. |
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!
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I have this terrible habit of always starting new stories when I am supposed to be working on something else. I figure, though, that I should at least write the scene or chapter down before the inspiration passes in case I someday run out of ideas and have to go back and work on all of my unfinished novels. (Though lack of ideas is never a problem. Time and making myself sit down and actually write are the problems, generally. It's hard to keep up momentum when the outside world has so much stuff to distract me.) I'm not good at just writing notes and then fleshing out scenes - I tend to come up with bits of dialogue, or a character, or something that requires I type out 2000 words. Getting some writing done is wonderful, but not when you are supposed to be writing something else.
This is a little bit from zombie novel that I've written a few thousand words of, and may or may not continue (I have only a vague idea of plot). There are no actual zombies in this section. I love zombie novels, and I want to write a zombie novel. Also, the more you look at the word zombie the stranger it seems. The narrator of this part is named Toby, and Toby is not really a very good zombie hunter, and it's quite unfortunate he's on his own with a baby during the apocalypse. There's another protagonist, named Sunny, who may or may not be zombified. It's like a zombie love story. It's like an awkward teenage romance with the end of the world as the setting. And a baby thrown in. It's really fantastic in my head. I hope you like this and you will tell me what you think.
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Dear Ronnie,
What does one wear to the end of the world? You wore a yellow jumpsuit. A very versatile garment, the all-in-one. Put it on and bam! Ready to rock. I’m not sure why it hasn’t caught on with the older crowd. Such a shame everyone grows out of it. I wore a purple three-piece suit. Not at the start – at the start I was wearing artfully frayed jeans and a deliberately faded t-shirt and an unbuttoned flannie, standard party wear, but once I realised life as we know it was definitely for sure ending, and that I would probably soon be dead, I figure I needed to die in style. You and me, kid, we’re going out with a bang. But we’ll get to that.
There are a lot of things that need to be explained to you, Ronnie, some of which I don’t even know. A lot of which you won’t be able to understand until you’re older. I’d like to hope that this will all be over in a bit, and we’ll get your family back together, and we’ll go back to being neighbours with not a whole lot of interest in one another.
As it is, I’m kind of your guardian and protector. I know, I’d be let down, too.
I never really expected to become a father this young. I also hoped that perhaps if I were to become a father, I would actually, you know, get laid beforehand. I bet this is how the Virgin Mary felt. I’m the Virgin Toby.
Don’t tell anyone at school, though, because I’ve got a whole lot of elaborate lies going on involving cavorting with various girls who live interstate. I have fake Facebook profiles and everything. It’s very involved, fabricating an exciting love life when you have nothing going on.
Though really I am never be going back to school, so who cares? I doubt zombies mind whether or not girls are interested in me. Zombies want me, I bet. And for my brains, too. Apparently the average age at which people lose their virginity is sixteen and I’m already seventeen, so I think the ship has sailed for me. Especially considering the girl I’m interested in is now a bonafide flesh-eater.
You’ll have to forgive me, Ronnie. I’m terrible with children. This is deeply inappropriate. I won’t let you read this letter till you’re at least sixteen. I’ll tell you how this whole shebang started, first up, and how you and I came to be the Dynamic Duo, fighting zombies, taking names. Though really mostly you cry and I cower.
A ba
The weekend was all about Mr. Kennedy. What a luscious hunk of man he is. I love this book, and hated every interruption I suffered while trying to savor this read. The chemistry between Zak and Cassie was electric, and I could readily believe that he had the power to sweep this intelligent and stubborn woman right off of her feet.
| She tucked her arm in his. He took a long appreciative glance at the lovely woman by his side. Indeed, she was stunning. This was the second time in so many days that he wondered what she might look like in nothing at all. “You are entirely too distracting.” “What was that, Zak?” He exhaled. “I’m having wicked thoughts about you.” |
And then there is this passage, that surely sent Cassie’s heart galloping out of control.
| He turned her in small circles and no longer waltzed at a respectable distance. Candlelight from the ballroom chandeliers whirled around his face. Blue eyes deepened to violet as his gaze fell to her mouth. Cassie tilted up her head and parted her lips. |
After rising her ire, Cassie tries to give Zak the cold shoulder. It doesn’t work very well. Zak is too blazing hot for a setdown.
| “Good night, Cassie.” “Good night, Mr. Kennedy.” He reached out and stopped the door from closing. “That is twice now you’ve called me Mr. Kennedy.” Pressing closer, his words fell against plump lips that parted ever so slightly. “I don’t like it anymore.” |
Swoon!
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!
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I just finished Winterling by Sarah Prineas. What a good book! This is MG fantasy at its best, with a very relatable protagonist, a great big evil to defeat, and a wonderful supporting cast of characters. Heroine Fer really sealed the deal, though. She is a caring, brave girl who refuses to let her fears stop her from doing what her heart compels her to.
| “Ah.” The Lady fell silent. When she spoke the edge had left her voice. She almost sounded sad. “Our oaths and our rules bind us together, Gwynnefar. When an oath is broken there is a price. And it is always more than the oath breaker can pay.” |
While browsing the comments at Dear Author, I discovered The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley. The hero has Asperger’s, which immediately caught my interest. I purchased it for my Kindle, and so far, I am finding it a hard to put 
down read. Ian is proving to be a very unique character, to say the least.
| Beth blinked. “I beg your pardon?” “I said, you could marry me. I don’t give a damn about your fortune.” “My lord, why on earth should you ask me to marry you?” “Because you have beautiful eyes.” “How do you know?" You’ve not once looked at them.” “I know.” |
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!
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I waited very impatiently for Saga of the Sioux by Dwight Jon Zimmerman to arrive at my local library. I have always been interested in Native American culture and history, and when I saw this adaptation of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, it went immediately on my wish list. This passage is from the Introduction.
| Today it is difficult, if no impossible, to understand how these people could have done what they did and feel no shame. But that’s what happened-and not to just one tribe or nation. As Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee revealed, from sea to shining sea, it happened to them all. |
The other book I am finishing up is Obsidian by Jennifer L Armentrout. This is a fun, fast-paced read with lots of clever dialog and snappy prose.
| Her eyes went from me to Daemon, completely misinterpreting everything. The glee in her eyes made me want to vomit on Daemon’s head. “You live next door?” |
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!
I had a bunch of holds come in from the library, so I am trying to fit as many of them into my reading schedule as possible. The first one I picked up was Rival by Sara Bennett Wealer. After reading Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez, I was craving another story with a competitive music backdrop. So far, this is really good.
| “Hey, Kathryn! Catch!” A beach ball hits me in the chest and then plops into my lap. I look up to see Brooke’s older brother Brice bobbing in the water in front of me. |
My other read is Bleeding Hearts by Alyxandra Harvey. It’s about the Drakes. I adore the Drakes. There is nothing else to be said.
| Nicholas won’t even sit in the same car with me because the smell of warm human blood is still too tempting. He just turned a little over a year ago, and it takes time to get all those appetites under control. I think of it like a case of perpetual PMS, where you just feel inside your bones that if you don’t get a hot fudge sundae right away, you might actually kill someone. |
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!
I picked up Busted in Bollywood by Nicola Marsh this weekend, and so far, I am finding this breezy contemporary a fun read. I am having a problem with all of the references to Indian food, though – I desperately want to hit the closest Indian buffet because the book is making me hungry!
| His smile turned sly. “Besides, I have a reputation to uphold. It wouldn’t be good for me to be seen interfering in women’s work.” “Women’s work? You little worm, you-“ “Gotcha.” He had the audacity to wink and I deflated. |
I also started In The Forests of Then Night by Kersten Hamilton, and about 2 pages in, I didn’t want to put it down! I enjoyed Tyger Tyger quite a bit despite a slow beginning, and this follow-up has me hooked already!
| “I need to speak to Roisin,” he said. Finn rubbed his jaw. “Then I suggest you get off my girl’s lap. And put some clothes on, man. You’re indecent.” |
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!
Since I bought my Kindle Fire, I have been reading eBooks by the boat load. I have been alternating between full length novels and novellas, and have read quite a few entertaining books over the past few days. I loved the cover of Tessa Dare’s Once Upon a Winter’s Eve: A Spindle Cove Novella, and couldn’t resist clicking the BUY button. It was only .79 cents! So far I am enjoying it enough to contemplate hitting her backlist.
| “Christian, if I’m helping you escape, I’m going to truly help you. Not just bid you farewell and send you to your watery doom.” |
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!
I love this line from Crossed by Ally Condie, and wish that I, too, could see the one good part in everything.
| My mother could dance and sing and she went out to watch the sunset every night. “They didn’t have sunsets like these in the Main Provinces,” she’d say. She always found the one good part of everything and then turned her face toward it every chance she had. |
Eternal Rider by Larissa Ione is about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I couldn’t resist. Really. Horse. Men.
| Ares spun his mug down the length of the bar top and slid his queen into striking position. Triumph sang through him, filling that space in his soul that was always hungry for victory. “Checkmate.” |
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!
I am almost finished with The Vision by Jen Nadol. Like The Mark, this is a thought provoking, well-written read.
| I didn’t answer. How could I? Zander was so confident, without a trace of arrogance, just a quiet certainty that he’d done the right thing. I couldn’t imagine ever feeling that way. |
Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez was a surprise arrival in my mailbox. The first three pages have me totally hooked!
| I opened my eyes. My knuckles, bony and white, were shaking. The pills were wearing off. The music was over. I opened my hand. |
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!
I wasn’t able to get much reading accomplished last week because I am so busy at work, so I am still reading Shadow Kin by M J Scott. I really am enjoying this book, though, so I don’t care how long it takes me to finish it! Lots of action, lots of magic, and lots of intrigue.
| It was one thing for the Beast’s blood to be found. It was another entirely for mine to be found with it. Still, there was nothing I could do about it right now. |
My “on the go” book is One Brave Cowboy by Kathleen Eagle. I just started this, so I don’t have any impressions of it yet.
| Cougar wanted peace and privacy. He needed to build a new life, and he would start with what he loved most. Horses. |
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!
I haven’t read a Black Stallion book in forever, so I was totally excited when I saw The Black Stallion and the Lost City by Steven Farley at the library. I knew nothing about horses when I read Walter Farley’s books in the series – I wonder what I will think of Steven’s, now that I have horses of my own?
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Over the clamor of grunting horses and shouting riders, Alec could hear Bateman calling out orders from one of the camera-laden speedboats that had been tracking the runners from the river.
“Keep the camera on them!” Bateman squawked over his bullhorn from his position on the bow.
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I am on an urban fantasy kick and have Shadow Kin by M.J. Scott slated for my next read. Here’s a teaser from the third page.
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Legend says we kill by reaching into a man’s chest and tearing out his heart. It’s true, we can. I’ve even done it. Once.
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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!
Vacation Reads Reading Challenge!
The summer reading season is here! Don’t forget to sign up for the Vacation Reads Reading Challenge, which I am co-hosting with Ruby from Ruby’s Reads. You can win some awesome prizes, for something that you are going to do anyway! Click here and here for more information.
I love this! A girl who is as concerned about a nice knot as I am. I prefer the Double Windsor for a more even look, however. In Lani Woodland’s Indelible, protagonist Yara doesn’t have one little bit of sympathy because her guy Brent is required to look good.
| “You look nice in a tie.” I picked up the end of his blue tie and knotted it in a Half Windsor for him, making sure it hung straight. |
I am also reading The Family Plan by Cathy McDavid on my iPhone while I am out and about running errands.
| Sinbad, evidently tired of standing in one place, began pawing the ground. The movement caused his injury to gape and seep fresh blood. |
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!
Vacation Reads Reading Challenge!
The summer reading season is here! Don’t forget to sign up for the Vacation Reads Reading Challenge, which I am co-hosting with Ruby from Ruby’s Reads. You can win some awesome prizes, for something that you are going to do anyway! Click here and here for more information.
I can’t believe that it’s September! Where the heck did the summer go? Time flies when you’re having fun, I guess!
I just started reading these, so I’ll share the first few sentences of each.
This teaser is from After Obsession by Carrie Jones and Steven E. Wedel. I love Carrie Jones, so I am frothing to get going on this book!
| You are mine. You all will be mine. These are the words I hear every single freaking morning since my friend Courtney’s dad died. They slither around inside my brain all day until I think I’m going crazy and today is no exception. |
I can hardly wait to find out more about that!
Up next is is Ruined by Paula Morris. This b
ook has been sitting on my TBR for a while, so I grabbed it because I have been wanting to read it for a long, long time!
| Torrential rain was pouring the afternoon Rebecca Brown arrived in New Orleans. When the plane descended through gray clouds, she could only glimpse the dense swamps to the west of the city. Stubby cypress trees poked out of watery groves, half submerged by the rain-whipped waters, flecked with snowy herons. |
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!
Vacation Reads Reading Challenge!
The summer reading season is here! Don’t forget to sign up for the Vacation Reads Reading Challenge, which I am co-hosting with Ruby from Ruby’s Reads. You can win some awesome prizes, for something that you are going to do anyway! Click here and here for more information.
Look! I think I have settled down from my summer flightiness! I am trying to read one book at a time this week! I don’t think that will last long, but I do want to finish up this book before I head out to vacation next week.
I have high hopes for Island’s End by Padma Venkatraman because I enjoy reading about cultures and places different from my own.
| "The spirits have chosen you to be their messenger because your own spirit has the power to travel deep into the Otherworld. Perhaps you will become the next oko-jumu. Would you like to be the tribe’s spiritual guide one day? Do you wish to become my apprentice?” |
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!
Vacation Reads Reading Challenge!
The summer reading season is here! Don’t forget to sign up for the Vacation Reads Reading Challenge, which I am co-hosting with Ruby from Ruby’s Reads. You can win some awesome prizes, for something that you are going to do anyway! Click here and here for more information.
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Hi Laura. Such an endeavor should take a long time. As you said, it spans many generations. Happy Birthday to your father! Hug him with the strength of ninety!
Hey there Laura
You know, you’re right! Up until I read your comment, I’ve always felt like I should have gotten this story figured out by now. *breathes a sigh of relief* Some stories take longer than others and that’s okay! Thanks so much for stopping by today and for your words of wisdom. I sure did hug Dad–and you know what’s cool? He was in such great spirits. Happy and talkative and full of energy, more energy than I’ve seen him have in years! You know what he says is making him feel so good? Seaweed:D And he’s making sure that I take some. I’m like ABSOLUTELY! I’ll have some of what he’s having. LOL! ((hugs))
I take bee pollen and vitamin E. Helps with restless legs, leg cramps, and those oh so wonderful hot flashes! Have to check into seaweed:)