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!
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
“I always wonder about raindrops.
I wonder about how they’re always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. It’s like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn’t seem to care where the contents fall, doesn’t seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on their doors.
I am a raindrop.”
~ 4%, Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
“He’s always believed in me. Even soundlessly, silently, he fought for me. Always.”
~ 52%, Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Everyone knows how all those fairy tales go. The princess gets beautiful, nabs her prince, falls instantly in love, lives happily ever after and leaves her evil stepsisters in the dust. But what happens when you’re the ugly stepsister and your obnoxiously perfect—read pretty, smart, and, worst of all, sickeningly nice—stepsister is dating the charming, tall, devastatingly handsome guy you’ve had a thing for since you were nine years old? Quirky, artistic and snarky Mattie Lowe does not lead a charmed life. Her mother is constantly belittling her on Skype. Mercedes, the school mean girl, has made it her personal mission to torment Mattie. But worst of all? Her stepsister Ella is the most beautiful, popular girl in school and is dating Mattie’s secret longtime crush, Jake Kingston. Tired of being left out and done with waiting for her own stupid fairy godmother to show up, Mattie decides to change her life. She’ll start by running for senior class president against wildly popular Jake. Ella can keep her Prince Annoying. Mattie’s going to rule the school. And no one, not even a cute and suddenly flirty Jake, is going to stop her.
It all felt unfair. It wasn’t my fault that Ms. Aprils was singularly obsessed with the idea that Mark Twain was some sort of literary superhero who could do no wrong. She couldn’t fathom that other people didn’t worship him. I disliked him just for what he’d said about digging Jane Austen up and beating her to death with her own shinbone. Because Jane Austen was all sorts of awesome.
~p. 10, The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back by Sariah Wilson
Sometimes stuff just came out of my mouth even when I didn’t want it to. I had a low threshold for stupidity.
~p. 10, The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back by Sariah Wilson
“Your theory is deeply flawed.”
“Says the girl with ten Justin Bieber songs on her phone.”
“There is no need to take the name of The Biebs in vain. You leave him out of this.”
~p. 49, The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back by Sariah Wilson
What are you reading this week?
I love these extracts – both these books are going on my goodreads wishlist!!! Thank you!
Yay! So glad you liked them! =)
Great teasers! I love Shatter Me so much and I can’t wait for the third book!
Both these books sound pretty good! Great choices!
Awesome! Thanks so much!
LOL! Love these teasers! I’ve read Shatter Me, but hadn’t heard of Ugly Stepsister. I really have to read that one! Thanks!
Here’s my teaser!
http://mytime2read.blogspot.com/2013/07/teaser-tuesday-july-9.html
It is SOOOO fun. Hope you love it!
I wasn’t a fan of Shatter Me, but I hope you like it
http://carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com/2013/07/teaser-tuesdays_9.html
Thanks! =)
I’m not so sure but I think I’ve seen the picture used in the cover of Shatter Me from one of my favorite modern artists. If it is hers, I’m happy for her! 😀 Yay!
Andrea K. @ Books and Bindings
Teaser Tuesdays
I was looking through the cover credits and it looks like it was inspired by this photo-manipulation: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareedavenport/4301980436/ Pretty cool
That was it exactly! I love that artist’s work!
I love love love Shatter Me! Tahereh Mafi’s writing is absurdly awesome.
I’ve not read The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back, but it sounds so fun and cute!! I’m definitely going to have to get a copy.
Here’s my teaser!
Agreed. Absurdly awesome. And TUSSB is totes adorbs, I hope you pick it up!
Tahereh is absurdly awesome! Totally agree! TUSSB was super adorable and awesome! Hope you love it!
I really really wanted to like Shatter Me, but I just didn’t
Here’s my Teaser Tuesday 3 Fun Redhead Books
Mei @ Diary of a Fair Weather Diver
Yeah, I enjoyed Shatter Me, but I didn’t find it as amazing as some. The writing was gorgeous, but there were some developmental issues I couldn’t get past. 😛 Thanks for stopping by!
That’s ok, it’s not for everyone! =)
Thank you greatly for the teasers! I do want to get to Shatter Me one day, and the other new new.
Thank you for visiting my blog today.
You’re welcome! Hope you love these two as much as we did!
I am so glad I bought Shatter Me :D! These teasers sound good. I hope I can get the chance to read it this summer.
Here’s mine:
http://kassiesthoughts30.blogspot.com/2013/07/teaser-tuesday-10-heartbeat-by-faith.html
I hope you can too! Have fun!
Ahhhh!!! I loved loved LOVED Shatter me!!!
The Ugly Stepsister sounds fun. Thanks for sharing! 
We LOVED Shatter Me too! And TUSSB was SOOOO fun! =) Thanks for visiting!
I have Shatter Me on my shelf and now I want to read it immediately! I hadn’t heard of the second one, but I will definitely be checking it out… I loved the teasers.
Thanks for stopping by my TT.
Brandy @ A LIttle of the Book Life
You’re welcome! And yes, Shatter Me is totally awesome and you should read it right away! TUSSB is so fun. Quick, easy read that is just full of LOL moments. =)
These both sound great, but ugly step sisters are right up my alley. 😉 I have to check that one out!
Yay! It was adorably awesome and wonderful! Speaking of adorably awesome and wonderful…I read Secondary Characters yesterday, and I loved it! Lance was incredibly well done! I look forward to reading more of your work someday.
Oh wow, I loved Shatter Me and Destroy Me and Unravel Me.. The writing gives me chills!
Right? She is all sorts of ridiculously talented!