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!
Wally was adopted from a Russian orphanage as a child and grew up in a wealthy New York City family. At fifteen, her obsessive need to rebel led her to life on the streets.
Now the sixteen-year-old is beautiful and hardened, and she’s just stumbled across the possibility of discovering who she really is. She’ll stop at nothing to find her birth mother before Klesko – her darkeyed father – finds her. Because Klesko will stop at nothing to reclaim the fortune Wally’s mother stole from him long ago. Even if that means murdering his own blood. But Wally’s had her own killer training, and she’s hungry for justice.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for teens, this debut thriller introduces our next big series heroine!
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“Was it possible, Wally wondered, to want something your entire life — desperately — without consciously knowing it? That was how she felt when she first read the line in her mother’s note: My greatest hope has been that you and I would one day embrace as mother and daughter. Wally shared that furious need for completeness, now more than ever.
~ p. 71, Dark Eyes by William Richter
(from the uncorrected proof copy)
What are you reading this week?
Wow, what a great teaser! It’s so haunting and hopeful and depressing at the same time! This is definitely going on my TBR shelf!
Kelly
Teaser Tuesday @ Radiant Shadows
ooh good teaser. I haven’t heard of this book yet. thanks for stoppig by the blog today
Oh, that sounds like a GOOD book! Awesome teaser!
Cool teaser – even though this wasn’t one of my favorites of last year’s reads.
Long time no talk! Well, that’s mostly my fault because I’ve been neglecting my blog work in favor of writing :p
http://watercolormoods.blogspot.com/2012/01/teaser-tuesday-pure-by-julianna-baggott.html
Great teaser!
I’ve been curious about this book. Thanks for sharing!
My TT: http://bibliophilesthoughtsonbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/teaser-tuesday-8-beautiful-dark.html
Sad and beautiful quote. I hope she works things out with her mother. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Wow, what a teaser. Great quote, it’s sad yet beautiful! I’m definitely adding this to my TBR list!