Tuesday Teasers 6th October 2015

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea where bloggers share the first paragraph or two of the book they are currently reading/thinking about reading soon. Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. 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!

Ann:

Tuesday Intro

"I think it was only at the very end of the Lavender Lodge job, when we were fighting for our lives in that unholy guest-house that I glimpsed Lockwood & Co. working together perfectly for the first time. It was just the briefest flash, but every detail remains etched into my memory: those moments of sweet precision when we truly acted as a team." 

Teaser Tuesday 

"My skin crawled. I couldn't take my eyes off the smiling apparition in the chair." 

I love the Lockwood books and these quotes represent the book perfectly. It has a lot of energetic fight scenes but is also kind of funny in some places. I really like this intro because I love how it jumps straight into the action which I really like. 

Clare:

Tuesday Intro:

"The Metropolitan Theater simmered with the heat of more than a thousand bodies packed together in red velvet chairs. My nose itched from the lingering scent of cigarette smoke wafting off the gentleman's coats - a burning odor that added to the sensation that we were all seated inside a beautiful oven, waiting to be broiled. Even the cloud of warring perfumes hanging over the audience smelled overcooked, like toast gone crisp and black."

 Teaser Tuesday:

"Come along. Let's get out of here and go toast to youth and vampires and rebellion."

I love how great Cat Winters is at setting a scene, I almost feel hot after reading that opening! It also sounds so beautiful yet distasteful which is a great combination. And that teaser is just a brilliant quote I think. 

You can also find us on Goodreads (Ann and Clare) to keep up with what we are reading

Tuesday Teasers 29th September 2015

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea where bloggers share the first paragraph or two of the book they are currently reading/thinking about reading soon. Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. 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!

Ann:

Tuesday Intro:

"On the day we're the last people to see indie kid Finn alive, we're all sprawled together in the Field, talking about love and stomachs.

Teaser Tuesday:

“Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for it's consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But Michael, you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumour.” 

Clare:

Tuesday Intro:

"Joost had two problems: the moon and his moustache.He was supposed to be making his rounds at the Hoede house, but for the last fifteen minutes, he'd been hovering around the south-east wall of the gardens, trying to think of something clever and romantic to say to Anya."

Teaser Tuesday: 

"“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?" 
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej. "Gun to the back?" said Jesper. 
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina. 
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”"

This just arrived and I am just so genuinely excited. I am already half in love with this book and those quotes are both so good! I am going to be really anti-social until I've finished this!

You can also find us on Goodreads (Ann and Clare) and on Twitter (Ann and Clare) to keep up with what we are reading 

Tuesday Intro and Teaser Tuesday 22nd September 2015

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea where bloggers share the first paragraph or two of the book they are currently reading/thinking about reading soon. Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. 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!

Ann:

Tuesday Intro:

"The music practically floats out the speakers; it fills up the fenced yard, flies over the swing set, and spins into eddies under the deck. Peter Gabriel's voice is gruff and soft in all the best ways, but my arms are already tired and I've been holding this speaker dock over my head for less than a minute. How did John Cusack do it with a boom box three times this size?"

Teaser Tuesday:

"Sir Tristram had risen and gone over to the fire to replace the smoking log. He did not answer until he had done so, and then he said in his cool, disinterested voice: "You wrote that you had arranged a marriage for me with your grand-daughter." 

Clare:

Tuesday Intro: 

"There was a dead tax attorney in my closet, sobbing uncontrollably into the hem of her blouse. She'd been there a few days now. It made getting dressed in the morning awkward."

I always love the humour in Darynda Jones's books. This is the eighth book in the Charley Davidson series and I highly recommend the series as a whole! 

 

Teaser Tuesday:

"Her words were so soft. Her teeth were so sharp. "I burnt his ancestral home to the ground. I killed his parents and his sister. I hunted him down, played games with him, toyed with him, butchered him and ate his heart."

"Do you think that was perhaps an over-reaction?" I said stupefied."

This is, without a doubt, one of the weirdest books I have ever read. Everyone in it has such a weird moral stance on murder as well. But, oddly, I am really enjoying it.  

You can also find us on Goodreads (Ann and Clare) and on Twitter (Ann and Clare) to keep up with what we are reading

Tuesday Intro and Teaser Tuesday 15th September

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea where bloggers share the first paragraph or two of the book they are currently reading/thinking about reading soon. Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. 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!

Ann:

Tuesday Intro:

"Sir Tristram Shield, arriving at Lavenham Court in the wintry dusk, was informed at the door that his great-uncle was very weak, not expected to live many more days out. He received these tidings without comment, but as the butler helped him to take off his heavy-caped driving-coat, he inquired in an unemotional voice: "Is Mr Lavenham here?""

This isn't the most exciting of openings but it sets a stage and an atmosphere. Also I've always wanted a butler.

Teaser Tuesday:

"Only his eyes were very much alive, startlingly dark in his waxen face."

This is such good imagery and also really quite creepy.

Clare:

Tuesday Intro:

"Josephine Montfort stared at the newly mounded grave in front of her and at the wooden cross marking it."

The first chapter seems to be a scene from later on in the book so it's quite mysterious. I received an e-arc from Netgalley of this book and it's due for release 27th October. I will have my review up closer to that date.

Teaser Tuesday:

"But dreams can't be contained for long. Their natural trajectory is forward. Out. Up. Away. Past all barriers and borders. Into the world. This is true of nightmares, too." 

This actually sounds kind of nice out of context but it's quite sinister in the book. I have just finished Lair of Dreams and I loved it, I have posted my review and you can find it here if you are interested, but basically it was incredibly well written and the creepy elements were very creepy (although not quite as creepy as the first book). 

You can also find us on Goodreads (Ann and Clare) and on Twitter (Ann and Clare) to keep up with what we are reading

Tuesday Intros and Teaser Tuesdays

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea where bloggers share the first paragraph or two of the book they are currently reading/thinking about reading soon. Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. 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!

Ann:

Tuesday Intro:

"I do not require life to be neat and orderly. Anyone who doubts that should dig around in my backpack, where you will likely find a half-eaten candy bar that has been there since Iowa - a state we moved from nearly a year ago."

I love this intro mainly because of the first sentence.

Teaser Tuesday:

"I could feel my eyebrow beginning to arch upward, but I tried to keep my expression neutral." - Page 25

I really like this quote!

Clare: 

Tuesday Intro:

"The man who sat before me at seven o'clock on a Tuesday evening was lying.He'd come with an impeccable reference from a barrister client of mine, and though he was barely thirty-five, the tailoring of his three-piece suit and the glint of his watch chain spoke of success. He wore power easily in his posture and the set of his shoulders, like a man accustomed to it, and yet the problem he set me was not only trifling; it was false."

I love this intro because it goes straight in and makes me feel like I am there and desperate to know what he's lying about and why! 

Teaser Tuesday:

"The back of my neck prickled when I rounded the corner down the way, and I feared that if I turned my head, I'd find the shine of Lucas's spectacles in the lamplight. Or the face of the deceased Albrecht Schendel." - Page 60

I just finished this book and I can tell you that it's wonderful and haunting and that I am now desperate to read everything else she has written. I really wanted to use this book for a teaser and then discovered how hard that was to do without spoilers but I managed! Seriously, I loved basically every line in this book.  

You can also find us on Goodreads (Ann and Clare) and on Twitter (Ann and Clare) to keep up with what we are reading

Tuesday Intros and Teaser Tuesdays

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea where bloggers share the first paragraph or two of the book they are currently reading/thinking about reading soon. Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. 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!

Because this is our first Tuesday Intro/Teaser Tuesday of the month we will also be including an excerpt from our Classics for this month.

Ann:

Tuesday Intro:

""Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress."I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy with an injured sniff."

Teaser Tuesday:

"It was a moist, pleasantly odorous night in early spring."

I liked this quote because I always love the descriptions in these books and this was one I picked out of many options.

Clare:

Tuesday Intro:

"There was a thing waiting in the darkness.It was ancient and cruel, and paced in the shadows leashing his mind. It was not of his world, and had been brought here to fill him with its primordial cold. Some invisible barrier still separated them, but the wall crumbled a little more every time the thing stalked along it's length, testing its strength.He could not remember his name."

I am not going to do a teaser for this one because I don't want to spoil myself when I am just starting it. But isn't that intro good? It's so atmospheric and I love the first sentence. I want to keep reading straight away!

 

Teaser:

"She tried to be sad so as not to be angry, but it made her angry that she couldn't be sad."

Aww poor Kate. This is from the second page since I have only started this today. But I kind of like her at the moment. I am not sure if that will last, I am always wary with Henry James because he can take characters I thought I loved and make me despise them and vice versa. But so far - I like her. I also like this sentence because I know that feeling. 

You can also find us on Goodreads (Ann and Clare) and on Twitter (Ann and Clare) to keep up with what we are reading

Tuesday Intros and Teaser Tuesdays

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros is hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea where bloggers share the first paragraph or two of the book they are currently reading/thinking about reading soon. Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. 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!

Ann: 

Tuesday Intro: 

"Stupid Princes," I muttered as I stalked down the green flecked quartz and marble hallway. "Why is it that when I don't want them, they're practically popping out of the closets? But the one time, the one time I actually need a knight in overpriced armor, they're nowhere to be found?"

Teaser:

"Everything was pitch-black; the only light came from my flaming hair."

The intro makes the main character seem like more than just an ordinary princess who only cares about princes. The teaser doesn't give much away but it does make the book sound really interesting and I cannot wait to read more.

 Clare: 

Tuesday Intro: 

"Bog bodies."

Teaser: 

""Why is there blue stuff on your face?"

Clare took a deep breath and counted to ten before she opened her eyes. "I was partying with Smurfs. I wanted to fit in."

I feel a bit mean with the first quote but it's so much more intriguing as one sentence, I haven't started reading this so I didn't want any explanation for such a ridiculous sentence.

I love the second quote because it just sounds so sarcastic and I love sarcasm in characters!