Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat 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 Books and a Beat.

This week my teaser is from Paper and Fire, the second book in The Great Library series by Rachel Caine. I read the first book a few months ago and really enjoyed it so was very excited to get the follow up from the library last week. It’s set in an alternate reality where the great library of Alexandria didn’t burn down but gained more and more power. It’s an easy and enjoyable read with plenty of action and some steampunk elements that I’m loving.

Warning: while the teaser is spoiler free the synopsis includes spoilers for the first book in the series.

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My Teaser

We have been told that paper in a binding, ink on a page, is worth more than the life of any man, woman or child. We have been pressed into the service of this false idol we call Knowledge for far too long; we have forgotten how to be free of it, how to think for ourselves and believe we, in ourselves, are worth the breath we take, the land we walk.

~ Page 211,  Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine

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Synopsis (from GoodReads)

Ink and Bone introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now, the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library—and rewrite history—continues. . . .

With an iron fist, The Great Library controls the knowledge of the world, ruthlessly stamping out all rebellion, forbidding the personal ownership of books in the name of the greater good.

Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to the sinister, seductive world of the Library, but serving in its army is nothing like he envisioned. His life and the lives of those he cares for have been altered forever. His best friend is lost, and Morgan, the girl he loves, is locked away in the Iron Tower and doomed to a life apart.

Embarking on a mission to save one of their own, Jess and his band of allies make one wrong move and suddenly find themselves hunted by the Library’s deadly automata and forced to flee Alexandria, all the way to London.

But Jess’s home isn’t safe anymore. The Welsh army is coming, London is burning, and soon, Jess must choose between his friends, his family, or the Library willing to sacrifice anything and anyone in the search for ultimate control. . . .

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Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat 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 Books and a Beat.

This week I have another teaser is from All is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker. I started reading it last week but got distracted with other books over the weekend and have only just picked it up again. At the moment I can’t decide whether it’s dull or fascinating. The narrator is a psychiatrist, a sort of objective observer of the events and while this gives some interesting insights it seems to distance you from the story and characters. I’ve read reviews which say stick with it so I am.

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My Teaser

We are small, inconsequential beings. It is only our place in the hearts of others that fills us up, that gives us our purpose, our pride and our sense of self. We need our parents to love us without condition, without logic and beyond reason.

~ Location 1183,  All Is Not Forgotten, Wendy Walker (ARC from NetGalley)

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Synopsis (from GoodReads)

In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut everything seems picture perfect.

Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory. Her father, Tom, becomes obsessed with his inability to find her attacker and seek justice while her mother, Charlotte, prefers to pretend this horrific event did not touch her perfect country club world.

As they seek help for their daughter, the fault lines within their marriage and their close-knit community emerge from the shadows where they have been hidden for years, and the relentless quest to find the monster who invaded their town – or perhaps lives among them – drive this psychological thriller to a shocking and unexpected conclusion.

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Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat 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 Books and a Beat.

This week my teaser is from All is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker which I spotted on NetGalley and couldn’t resist requesting. For some reason I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of memory loss and I do love a good psychological thriller so it should be perfect for me. I’ve literally just read the first chapter so it’s very early days but so far so good.

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My Teaser

But the injustice of it all, the anger it provoked in me, and the ability to understand her suffering-all of it led me to a single-minded pursuit. And that was to give back to Jenny Kramer this most horrific nightmare.

~ Location 126,  All Is Not Forgotten, Wendy Walker

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Synopsis (from GoodReads)

In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut everything seems picture perfect.

Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory. Her father, Tom, becomes obsessed with his inability to find her attacker and seek justice while her mother, Charlotte, prefers to pretend this horrific event did not touch her perfect country club world.

As they seek help for their daughter, the fault lines within their marriage and their close-knit community emerge from the shadows where they have been hidden for years, and the relentless quest to find the monster who invaded their town – or perhaps lives among them – drive this psychological thriller to a shocking and unexpected conclusion.

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Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat 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 Books and a Beat.

I’m between books at the moment so it seems like a good excuse to post a teaser from The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey which I read at the weekend. It’s a book that’s been on my want to read list for a while and I have to say it was worth the wait. I should be posting a review with 5 big fat stars soon but in the meantime here’s my teaser.

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My Teaser

And he’s always assumed that by steering into the middle of the channel, he was going to manage not to get wrecked. Now he knows you can get wrecked in clear waters too, and he’s thinking oh please, don’t let me die. I haven’t even lived yet, so it’s not fair to let me die.

~ page 171,  The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey

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Synopsis (from GoodReads)

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her “our little genius.”

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite, but they don’t laugh.

Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children’s cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she’ll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn’t know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.

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Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat 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 Books and a Beat.

This week my teaser comes from Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver which I got from the local library. I’m only about a third of the way through and finding it a little slow but going on some of the reviews I’ve read and my previous experience of this author’s books I still have high hopes for a big finish.

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Synopsis (from GoodReads)

Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara’s beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her sister, before it’s too late.

In this edgy and compelling novel, Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue, loss, and suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves, and each other.

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My Teaser

“It’ll be just like old times,” Parker says, and I feel a hard ache in my chest, a desperate desire for something lost long ago.

Everyone knows you can’t go back.

~ page 52, Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat 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 Books and a Beat.

This week my teaser comes from Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton. This is a book I’ve been looking forward to for a while and although it’s pretty early days I am enjoying it so far. It feels like it’s been far too long since I’ve read this type of book.

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Synopsis (from GoodReads)

She’s more gunpowder than girl—and the fate of the desert lies in her hands.

Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mystical beasts still roam the wild and barren wastes, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinni still practice their magic. But there’s nothing mystical or magical about Dustwalk, the dead-end town that Amani can’t wait to escape from.

Destined to wind up “wed or dead,” Amani’s counting on her sharpshooting skills to get her out of Dustwalk. When she meets Jin, a mysterious and devastatingly handsome foreigner, in a shooting contest, she figures he’s the perfect escape route. But in all her years spent dreaming of leaving home, she never imagined she’d gallop away on a mythical horse, fleeing the murderous Sultan’s army, with a fugitive who’s wanted for treason. And she’d never have predicted she’d fall in love with him… or that he’d help her unlock the powerful truth of who she really is.

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My Teaser

It was damn hard to trust a boy with a smile like that. A smile that made me want to follow him straight to the places he’d told me about and made me sure I shouldn’t at the same time

~ page 68, Rebel of the Sands

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat 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 Books and a Beat.

This week my teaser comes from Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan which I received as an ARC from NetGalley. It’s a mystery/thriller about a kidnapping and, while I’m only about 15% in, I have a really good feeling about it. I’m totally hooked and don’t want to stop reading which is definitely a good sign.

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Synopsis (from GoodReads)

Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all kinds of letters – but none like the one she’s just received:

Dear Amy,
I don’t know where I am. I’ve been kidnapped and am being held prisoner by a strange man. I’m afraid he’ll kill me.
Please help me soon,
Bethan Avery

Bethan Avery has been missing for years. This is surely some cruel hoax. But, as more letters arrive, they contain information that was never made public. How is this happening? Answering this question will cost Margot everything . . .

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My Teaser

Don’t let anyone tell you that the gold standard of feeling old is when the police and doctors seem younger than you. It’s the librarians that will get you every time.

~ location 419, Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat 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 Books and a Beat.

This week I was lucky enough to get my hands on an ARC of Summer Days and Summer Nights from NetGalley. It’s a collection of twelve YA short stories with a bit of a summer romance theme. It’s edited by Stephanie Perkins and includes stories by a few of my favourite authors (Leigh Bardugo, Veronica Roth, Nina LaCour, Cassandra Clare) as well as some authors I haven’t come across. I’m generally not a fan of short stories but I’m really enjoying this collection.

My Teaser

On the Upper West Side, above the bakeries and delicatessens, the Woolworth’s and the Red Apple market, people slept on top of their sheets, sucked on handkerchiefs full of crushed ice, and opened their windows wide, praying for a breeze. That was why, when the Hudson leaped it’s banks and went looking for trouble on a hot July night, the river found Ruth Blonsky’s window wedged open with a dented Candie’s shoe box.

~ location 62, Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail by Leigh Bardugo

Happy reading everyone.