Showing posts with label Teaser Tuesdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaser Tuesdays. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Teaser Tuesday: Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Hey Remarkable Readers!  This week's teaser is from Insurgent by Veronica Roth.  Well, What are we waiting for?  Let's get to it!
One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian Divergent series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.

THE TEASER 

     "I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation.  Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes.  There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.  
     I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.  Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life.  And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it. 
    So I sob into my hands instead." (Page 341, Hardcover)

I'm not sure why but, I really like this quote.  It's really interesting and it gives a lot of insight into what Tris is thinking. 

What's your teaser?

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Teaser Tuesday

Hey Remarkable Readers!
It's time for Teaser Tuesday once again!  This week, I'm reading Incarnate by Jodi Meadows.  I'm almost done!  I'm not going to pick a teaser from the page I'm on, though.  The writing in Incarnate is so beautiful and descriptive!  I'm going to share one of my favorite passages!


Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
Incarnate (Newsoul, #1)


NEWSOUL 
Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why. 

NOSOUL 
Even Ana’s own mother thinks she’s a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she’ll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are suspicious and afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame? 

HEART 
Sam believes Ana’s new soul is good and worthwhile. When he stands up for her, their relationship blooms. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana’s enemies—human and creature alike—let them be together? Ana needs to uncover the mistake that gave her someone else’s life, but will her quest threaten the peace of Heart and destroy the promise of reincarnation for all? 

Jodi Meadows expertly weaves soul-deep romance, fantasy, and danger into an extraordinary tale of new life.


"I'll be around my whole life," I whispered, not quite under the breeze in the forest, the pounding of heart and the beating of my invisible and incorporeal wings.  "That's a long time to me."-Page 71, ARC
 I did have some other favorite passages and I couldn't find my favorite but, I really like this quote.  What do you think?


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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Teaser Tuesday: Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi


Under the Never Sky

Aria is a teenager in the enclosed city of Reverie. Like all Dwellers, she spends her time with friends in virtual environments, called Realms, accessed through an eyepiece called a Smarteye. Aria enjoys the Realms and the easy life in Reverie. When she is forced out of the pod for a crime she did not commit, she believes her death is imminent. The outside world is known as The Death Shop, with danger in every direction. 

As an Outsider, Perry has always known hunger, vicious predators, and violent energy storms from the swirling electrified atmosphere called the Aether. A bit of an outcast even among his hunting tribe, Perry withstands these daily tests with his exceptional abilities, as he is gifted with powerful senses that enable him to scent danger, food and even human emotions. 

They come together reluctantly, for Aria must depend on Perry, whom she considers a barbarian, to help her get back to Reverie, while Perry needs Aria to help unravel the mystery of his beloved nephew’s abduction by the Dwellers. Together they embark on a journey challenged as much by their prejudices as by encounters with cannibals and wolves. But to their surprise, Aria and Perry forge an unlikely love - one that will forever change the fate of all who live UNDER THE NEVER SKY.
She hated everything about it.  The overblown sense of drama.  The violence and lewdness.  No one had ever died of heartbreak in Reverie.  Betrayal never led to murder.  Those things didn't happen anymore.  They had the Realms now.  They could experience anything without taking risks.  Now, life was Better than Real.- Page 79 (ARC)

What do you think?  Did that make you want to read the book or not?  Let me know in the comments! :)
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Teaser Tuesday



Bethany and Xavier are even closer since battling Jake Thorn and his evil influence (in Halo) and Beth and her angel siblings must still protect Venus Cove from the Dark Forces. 

When a party game – a séance – inadvertently releases Jake from the Underworld, he disguises himself and tricks Beth into taking a ride on his motorcycle. When the highway opens up and swallows them, Beth learns too late that she’s now a prisoner in hell. What happens to angels there? As her archangel brother, Gabriel, her sister Ivy, Xavier, and her best friend, Molly search for her, Beth must weigh Jake’s bargaining for her freedom: one night with him, and she will be released back to Earth. 
Can Jake be trusted in this wager? And is he also using Beth to engineer the fall of the archangel Gabriel? Xavier has already lost one love – when Jake tricks him into thinking that Bethany is dead, his grief and anger result in a betrayal that will leave Bethany – and readers – wondering if he is so good after all. 

It will be up to Beth to use everything she’s learned about her powers as an angel – and about love – to free herself and those she loves from the clutches of Hades.
"Bethany's friend or not, this girl could make a preacher curse."-Ivy, Page 177


 I know that's not a lot, but if I posted more, it would give the story away!  The book is great and around 170 and on, there are some pretty funny lines.  I'm really enjoying Hades!

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays

On a Side Note:  Please take note of the fact that no review will be posted today.  The reason:  The Review I will be posting is for a book that is released tomorrow, so it will be posted tomorrow.  Thank you.


And now its time for Teaser Tuesday!!!

Dark Parties
Current Read:  Dark Parties by Sara Grant


Sixteen-year-old Neva has been trapped since birth. She was born and raised under the Protectosphere, in an isolated nation ruled by fear, lies, and xenophobia. A shield "protects" them from the outside world, but also locks the citizens inside. But there's nothing left on the outside, ever since the world collapsed from violent warfare. Or so the government says...
Neva and her best friend Sanna believe the government is lying and stage a "dark party" to recruit members for their underground rebellion. But as Neva begins to uncover the truth, she realizes she must question everything she's ever known, including the people she loves the most.
"How do you know we can trust her?" he asks, his pace slowing.  "Just trust me."  I take his hand and pull him forward.- page 216 (Please note that this was from an ARC copy.)

 

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays

This weeks Teaser Tuesday: Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma 


Imaginary Girls



Chloe's older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured or caged. When a night with Ruby's friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the dead body of her classmate London Hayes left floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away from town and away from Ruby.

But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when Chloe returns to town two years later, deadly surprises await. As Chloe flirts with the truth that Ruby has hidden deeply away, the fragile line between life and death is redrawn by the complex bonds of sisterhood.

With palpable drama and delicious craft, Nova Ren Suma bursts onto the YA scene with the story that everyone will be talking about.

Page 274:  Now he was tilting his head, a hand over his eyes, squinting.  People did that when they were making an effort to see a hint of her in me.  Boys did.  Boys did it all the time.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Teaser Tuesday

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!



So here's our first Teaser Tuesday:

"Ginny took her sheet sack up the stairs and went to the room at the end of the hall, as she'd been directed.  The door was open just a crack, and she pushed it wide to reveal a very large room with a skinny, military-style-looking bunks."  -Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson