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!
Fields’ Rule #1: Don’t fall for the enemy.
Berry Fields is not looking for a boyfriend. She’s busy trailing cheaters and liars in her job as a private investigator, collecting evidence of the affairs she’s sure all men commit. And thanks to a pepper spray incident during an eighth grade game of spin the bottle, the guys at her school are not exactly lining up to date her, either.
So when arrogant—and gorgeous—Tanner Halston rolls into town and calls her “nothing amazing,” it’s no loss for Berry. She’ll forget him in no time. She’s more concerned with the questions surfacing about her mother’s death.
But why does Tanner seem to pop up everywhere in her investigation, always getting in her way? Is he trying to stop her from discovering the truth, or protecting her from an unknown threat? And why can’t Berry remember to hate him when he looks into her eyes?
With a playful nod to Jane Austen, Spies and Prejudice will captivate readers as love and espionage collide.
“I’m Berry,” I say, deliberately withholding my full name.
He flashes that smile again. “I’m Berry pleased to meet you.”
Drop dead good-looking?
Check.
Squee-inducing grin?
Check.
Razor-sharp wit?
Not even close.
~ p.8, Spies and Prejudice by Talia Vance
It’s been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.
Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot’s estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth–an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.
But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret–one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she’s faced with a choice: cling to what she’s been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she’s ever loved, even if she’s lost him forever.
Inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.
“Hello, Elliot!” she warbled, though her expression remained sly. “Have you come to see the new racetrack?”
“Elliot ignored her and faced her father. “What’s going on here?”
Only now did her father turn, but his placid countenance betrayed nothing. “Ah Elliot. Good to see you. You should have a talk with that COR foreman.” He gestured vaguely toward Dee. “She was a full ten minutes moving over the laborers this morning. Is she too far along in her pregnancy to be of any use to us?”
~3%, For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
What are you reading this week?
Hahaha, love that teaser from Spies and Prejudice! I’m such a dork because I thought that bad pun was hilarious. But if Berry were my name, I would probably react the same way. xD
hehe. Glad you enjoyed! =)
Ahahaha that’s a great quote from Spies and Prejudice! LOL and I really ended up enjoying For Darkness Shows the Stars, even though it was a bit slow at first. how are you liking it??
I absolutely LOVED Persuasion so I’m liking it so far. =)
Love the teaser from Spies and Prejudice
Here is mine http://elliereadsfiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/teaser-tuesday-07.html
Lol, that first teaser made me laugh. The second one is intriguing as well.
My teaser is from THE APOTHECARY’S DAUGHTER by Julie Klassen.