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!
Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. And Julie Seagle, college freshman, small-town Ohio transplant, and the newest resident of this Boston house, is determined to get to the bottom of it. When Julie’s off-campus housing falls through, her mother’s old college roommate, Erin Watkins, invites her to move in. The parents, Erin and Roger, are welcoming, but emotionally distant and academically driven to eccentric extremes. The middle child, Matt, is an MIT tech geek with a sweet side … and the social skills of a spool of USB cable. The youngest, Celeste, is a frighteningly bright but freakishly fastidious 13-year-old who hauls around a life-sized cardboard cutout of her oldest brother almost everywhere she goes. And there’s that oldest brother, Finn: funny, gorgeous, smart, sensitive, almost emotionally available. Geographically? Definitely unavailable. That’s because Finn is traveling the world and surfacing only for random Facebook chats, e-mails, and status updates. Before long, through late-night exchanges of disembodied text, he begins to stir something tender and silly and maybe even a little bit sexy in Julie’s suddenly lonesome soul. To Julie, the emotionally scrambled members of the Watkins family add up to something that … well … doesn’t quite add up. Not until she forces a buried secret to the surface, eliciting a dramatic confrontation that threatens to tear the fragile Watkins family apart, does she get her answer. Flat-Out Love comes complete with emails, Facebook status updates, and instant messages. . He looked at the plate in front of him. “What is this?” “It’s a gastronomical representation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Julie put her hands on her hips. “Don’t you see it? The clear depiction of the struggle for sexual identity as evidenced by the two phallic shapes?” Matt looked at her. “What are you talking about?” “What are you talking about? It’s manicotti, you nut. What do you think it is?” . ~20%, Flat-Out-Love by Jessica Park . . . There were no surprises in Gatlin County. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything. . . “His eyes softened. I thought maybe he pitied me, but it was something else. “Ultimately, it will be your burden to bear. It’s always the Mortal who bears it. Trust me, I know.” “I don’t trust you and you’re wrong. We aren’t too different.” “Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.” He was talking to me, but it didn’t feel like he was talking about me anymore. “I apologize for the intrusion. I’ll leave you to your sleep.” . ~75%, Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl . . . It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel. Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels’ stronghold in San Francisco where she’ll risk everything to rescue her sister and he’ll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again. The snowy angel rolls painfully off the crushed car. Despite his injuries, he lands in a half crouch, ready for an attack. His athletic grace reminds me of a puma I once saw on TV. ~p. 10, Angelfall by Susan Ee . . . What are you reading this week? 
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that’s what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn’t have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
Being a foodie, the first teaser is my favorite.
I just finished Flat-Out-Love yesterday and it is fantastic! Totally loved it!
These are ALL awesome teasers! My favorite is the one from Flat Out Love…too funny. But my favorite book is Angelfall…I think I’m due for a re-read. Love that one. And I just DL’d the audio for Beautiful Creatures so I can prep for the movie. 😉
Thanks for sharing & stopping by my teaser from The Darkest Minds. Happy Tuesday! 😀
Flat-Out-Love is awesome!
I listened to Beautiful Creatures last week and really enjoyed it. Listening to Beautiful Darkness now and I’m intrigued to see where the series is going. =)
Awesome teases!! Haven’t read any of these but Angelfall has been on my kindle for months now! So hard to choose the next read these days!!
Thanks for visiting my teaser!
I know what you mean! I always have to read the first chapter of a few to see what grabs me. =) Thanks for returning the visit!
The Flat Out Love teaser made me laugh! I really liked Beautiful Creatures and loved Angelfall! The Angelfall teasers make me want to reread! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for visiting! Flat-Out-Love was awesome! Absolutely loved it.
Great teasers!! The first one had me “LOL’ing” for quite a while…
It was a great book! Totally worth a read! =)
Good teasers, enjoyed them.
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Great teasers girls! I really loved the teaser for Beautiful Creatures! Reminds me that I really need to read the last two books in the series!
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-Brittani
Yay! Yes, I’m almost done with Beautiful Darkness now. I’m super curious where the series is going. A little nervous!
Great teasers! I really like the sounds of Flat Out Love.
It’s really good! Especially for a self-pub…I didn’t even realize it was self-pubbed until after I read it. Absolutely gorgeously done.
Yey Angelfall!! Loved it; just need to pick up my hard copy now 😀
Fantastic! Enjoy!