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 Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia, a book that seems to have been on my wishlist forever and I finally managed to get from Overdrive. I pretty much finished this at the weekend but it is such a great book I had to use it for this week’s teaser. I found this such an emotional read, something I didn’t expect, I couldn’t help but love it.

My Teaser

Broken people don’t hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.

~ 82% Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Blurb

Her story is a phenomenon. Her life is a disaster.

In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she’s LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try.

Then Wallace Warland, Monstrous Sea’s biggest fanfiction writer, transfers to her school. Wallace thinks Eliza is just another fan, and as he draws her out of her shell, she begins to wonder if a life offline might be worthwhile.

But when Eliza’s secret is accidentally shared with the world, everything she’s built—her story, her relationship with Wallace, and even her sanity—begins to fall apart.