Teaser Tuesday: The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

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. 

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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!

...The crimp in our...supposedly glorious future had nothing do with the kids who died. Buried underground or burned into ash, they couldn't do anything but haunt the memories of the people who had loved them. They were gone. Forever.

And that symptoms list, the one that was sent home folded and stapled by teachers, which was aired a hundred times over on the news as the faces of the dead scrolled along the bottom of the screen? They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind.

They were afraid of us - the ones who lived.

The Darkest Minds

 Alexandra Bracken

When Ruby wakes up on her tenth birthday, something about her has changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that's killed most of America's children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control. 

Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones. 

When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she's on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her--East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can't risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents. 

When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.

Available from Disney*Hyperion December 2012

Teaser Tuesday: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

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He was so real. When it finally happened, when she finally saw him, it didn't feel like magic at all. It felt like looking into the grave and seeing it look back at her.

"Neeve," Blue said. "Neeve, he's - dying."


"Not yet."


"Why - why can I see him?"


"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve, Blue. Either you're his true love, or you killed him."

The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle, #1)

 Maggie Stiefvater

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

Available from Scholastic Press September 2012

Teaser Tuesday: Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham

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Alice carefully typed in the numbers on her mom's Visa. At the bottom of the screen, an ominous line of text read: "By clicking continue, you agree that your credit card will be charged and your nonrefundable ticket(s) will be processed." If she didn't buy the tickets now, there would be no other chance.

Well, if you guys can get back together...why can't we?


Now, she just needed to convince her ex-best friends to join her.

Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham:


1 Concert
2000 Miles
3 Ex-Best Friends

Alice, Summer, and Tiernan are ex-best friends.

Back in middle school, the three girls were inseparable. They were also the number one fans of the rock band Level3.

But when the band broke up, so did their friendship. Summer ran with the popular crowd, Tiernan was a rebellious wild-child, and Alice spent high school with her nose buried in books.

Now, just as the girls are about to graduate, Level3 announces a one-time-only reunion show.

Even though the concert’s 2000 miles away, Alice buys three tickets on impulse. And as it turns out, Summer and Tiernan have their own reasons for wanting to get out of town. Good thing Alice’s graduation gift (a pea-green 1976 VW camper van known as the Pea Pod) is just the vehicle to get them there.

But on the long drive cross-country, the girls hit more than a few bumps in the road. Will their friendship get an encore or is the show really over?

Teaser Tuesday: Innocent Darkness (The Aether Chronicles, #1) by Suzanne Lazear

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The Pixy flew. Even V said she couldn't make it fly - and she had.

V bit his lip..."We know it can get airborne. Let's take her down. Give me a land lesson in how to fly and I'll take you for a ride tomorrow."

"What did you say?" With a grin, she pressed the thrust, going even faster. "I can't hear you!" Laughing, she zoomed through the air. 

Innocent Darkness (The Aether Chronicles, #1) by Suzanne Lazear:


Wish. Love. Desire. Live.

Sixteen-year-old Noli Braddock's hoyden ways land her in an abusive reform school far from home. On mid-summer's eve she wishes to be anyplace but that dreadful school. A mysterious man from the Realm of Faerie rescues her and brings her to the Otherworld, only to reveal that she must be sacrificed; otherwise, the entire Otherworld civilization will perish.

Teaser Tuesday: Unwind by Neal Shusterman

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..."Change," repeated the social worker, "that's all. The way ice becomes water, the way water becomes clouds. You will live, Risa. Only in a different form."

"Don't I have a choice in this?" But when she looks behind her, the answer is clear...And as they lead her away, she thinks of Mr. Durkin....He may get his wish after all. Someday he may see her hands playing in Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, the rest of Risa won't be there. 

Unwind (Unwind, #1) by Neal Shusterman

Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.

The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.

Teaser Tuesday: Pure by Julianna Baggott

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...All the people in the room look older than she is. Is this the underground? Is the boy with the birds in his back the head of it? And what do they see when they look at her? She tucks her head to her chest...and she pulls her sweater sleeve down over the doll head...She doesn't know who these people are. This is a mistake. She knows it now, clearly.

About Pure by Julianna Baggott: 

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . 

Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.

Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .

There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her.

When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.

Teaser Tuesday: In the Forests of the Night by Kersten Hamilton

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"So, just dating?"

"I intend a good deal more than that," Finn said. Mr. Wylltson's eyebrows lifted again, and Finn turned completely red.

"I mean to say I'm a marrying man...I know what you're thinking, and you're right. I'm eighteen years old. But I'm the man who can keep her alive when the goblins come hunting." 

Okay, so I might have fudged the rules a little this week for the teaser. But honestly, it's Finn. I needed to do him justice. What eighteen-year-old boy fights goblins, wields duct tape like a master, and is also a chivalrous, honorable marrying man? (Forget Edward Cullen. Finn is another reason to be Team Human.)

About In the Forests of the Night (The Goblin Wars, #2) by Kersten Hamilton:


The battle against goblinkind continues . . . but which side will Teagan be on?

Teagan, Finn, and Aiden have made it out of Mag Mell alive, but the Dark Man’s forces are hot on their heels. Back in Chicago, Tea’s goblin cousins show up at her school, sure she will come back to Mag Mell, as goblin blood is never passive once awoken. Soon she will belong to Fear Doirich and join them. In the meantime, they are happy to entertain themselves by trying to seduce, kidnap, or kill Tea’s family and friends. 

Tea knows she doesn’t have much time left, and she refuses to leave Finn or her family to be tortured and killed. A wild Stormrider, born to rule and reign, is growing stronger inside her. But as long as she can hold on, she’s still Teagan Wylltson, who plans to be a veterinarian and who heals the sick and hurting. The disease that’s destroying her—that’s destroying them all—has a name: Fear Doirich. And Teagan Wylltson is not going to let him win.

Teaser Tuesday: Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber

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 "Your band is playing here tonight," she said. "It is a good cover for us until things cool off."

"Wait," I said. "You're using my gig as your hideout?"

"What is the matter, Perry? Do you feel exploited?"

"I liked you better when you were this quiet geeky exchange student."

About Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber:

It’s prom night—and Perry just wants to stick to his own plan and finally play a much anticipated
gig with his band in the Big Apple. But when his mother makes him take Gobija Zaksauskas—their quiet, geeky Lithuanian exchange student—to the prom, he never expects that his ordinary high school guy life will soon turn on its head. 

Perry finds that Gobi is on a mission, and Perry has no other choice but to go along for a reckless ride through Manhattan’s concrete grid with a trained assassin in Dad’s red Jag. 

Infused with capers, car chases, heists, hits, henchmen, and even a bear fight, this story mixes romance, comedy, and tragedy in a true teen coming-of-age adventure—and it’s not over until it’s “au revoir.”

Teaser Tuesday: Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey

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...Seeing the teeth marks and deep gashes down my arm, he pulled off my left glove to view my wounds further. The glove dropped with the soft sound of a dead leaf. The woods went still all around us as Kye looked at my bloody hand and my naked claw.

About Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey:
   Far away on Wilde Island, Princess Rosalind is born with a dragon claw where her ring finger should be. To hide the secret, the Queen forces her to wear gloves at all times until a cure can be found, so Rosalind can fulfill the prophecy to restore the family to their rightful throne.
   
But Rosalind’s flaw cannot be separated from her fate. When she is carried off by the dragon, everything she thought she knew falls apart. The dragon sees beauty in her talon where her mother saw only shame, and Rosalind finally understands what her mother has truly denied her.
   
Carey has written a stunning portrayal of the complex relationship between a mother and daughter in a lyrical novel sure to thrill readers who love fantasy—and those who don’t.

Teaser Tuesday {2}

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The Vespertine

Saundra Mitchell

March 7, 2011, Harcourt Children's Books

"What sort of schoolmaster did you have, who failed to beat you into using your proper hand, Mr. Witherspoon?"

His brow twitched, lips curled to keep a smile from coming on them too broadly. "If I said a blind one, would you blush?"

Heat flashed across my face, so it seemed the answer was yes. 

Yes, I know that was more than two sentences, but I couldn't resist this week. So far, I'm really enjoying how Ms. Mitchell writes in such an old-fashioned, appropriate way. And, of course, I want to see more of this Nathaniel Witherspoon.

(Nathaniel. I've always had a fondness for that name.)

Teaser Tuesday {1}

Teaser Tuesdays are hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. 

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Lips Touch 
Laini Taylor and Jim Di Bartolo
October 1, 2009, Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic, Inc.)

Kizzy had always been fascinated by her - truth be told, she had always identified more with that wild girl who almost sold her soul for the taste of figs than with her grandmother who kept her lips tight shut and never hungered for forbidden things. But though she stared at that photo, and even saw the shape of her own eyes and lips mirrored back at her, Kizzy just couldn't see herself in that long-ago girl, ripe and thrilling and flush with a weird species of beauty the young have no vocabulary for.

 
This book is just lovely, in that old, a bit dark, fairy-tale sort of way. I wish I could give a teaser of Mr. Di Bartolo's illustrations, because they are simply amazing and go so well with the plot.

As it is, it was pretty hard to pick a good teaser without giving it all away.