Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday: 29th August 2017

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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by The Purple Booker. If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of The Purple Booker.


This week my teaser comes from A Semi Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland which I was lucky enough to win in a Readers First Giveaway. It’s quite a quirky story about a girl who suffers from anxiety about just about everything. There was so much about this book I could relate to and despite it’s general strangeness I found it a bit of an emotional read.

My Teaser

“How dare you,” she said sarcastically, panting as she came back to herself. “I am a special snowflake”.

“You really wanna let M Night Shyamalan do this to you? That’s like crying to a Nickelback Song. Have some self-respect.”

~ pg174 A Semi Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland

BlurbA Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

From the author of Our Chemical Hearts comes the hilarious, reality-bending tale of two outsiders facing their greatest fears about life and love one debilitating phobia at a time.

Ever since Esther Solar’s grandfather was cursed by Death, everyone in her family has been doomed to suffer one great fear in their lifetime. Esther’s father is agoraphobic and hasn’t left the basement in six years, her twin brother can’t be in the dark without a light on, and her mother is terrified of bad luck.

The Solars are consumed by their fears and, according to the legend of the curse, destined to die from them.

Esther doesn’t know what her great fear is yet (nor does she want to), a feat achieved by avoiding pretty much everything. Elevators, small spaces, and crowds are all off-limits. So are haircuts, spiders, dolls, mirrors and three dozen other phobias she keeps a record of in her semi-definitive list of worst nightmares.

Then Esther is pickpocketed by Jonah Smallwood, an old elementary school classmate. Along with her phone, money and a fruit roll-up she’d been saving, Jonah also steals her list of fears. Despite the theft, Esther and Jonah become friends, and he sets a challenge for them: in an effort to break the curse that has crippled her family, they will meet every Sunday of senior year to work their way through the list, facing one terrifying fear at a time, including one that Esther hadn’t counted on: love.

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