Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Here are the rules if you want to play along:

• 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!

This week’s teaser comes from The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud, book #1 in the Bartimaeus trilogy.

The temperature of the room dropped fast. Ice formed on the curtains and crusted thickly around the lights in the ceiling. The glowing filaments in each bulb shrank and dimmed, while the candles that sprang from every available surface like a colony of toadstools had their wicks snuffed out. The darkened room filled with a yellow, choking cloud of brimstone, in which indistinct black shadows writhed and roiled. From far away came the sound of many voices screaming. Pressure was suddenly applied to the door that led to the landing. It bulged inward, the timbers groaning. Footsteps from invisible feet came pattering across the floorboards and invisible mouths whispered wicked things from behind the bed and under the desk.

Looks like someone decided summoning demons was a good idea!

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is:

Ten Books On My Summer TBR

I love topics like this because it lets me plan ahead somewhat. For this list, I’m going to count my current read (see the above teaser) because I only just started it today.

1. The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
2. The Golem’s Eye by Jonathan Stroud
3. Ptolemy’s Gate by Jonathan Stroud
4. The Glow by Aubrey Hadley
5. Hello, Cruel Heart by Maureen Johnson
6. Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
7. Arrow’s Flight by Mercedes Lackey
8. Arrow’s Fall by Mercedes Lackey
9. The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare et al.
10. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Working through a few of my reading challenges while also reading a couple of Netgalley ARC’s that I found that I had been approved for a long time ago. I’d really like to get back to 100% again. Another book on that list is going to be part of a secret project that I am working on with one of my favorite partners in crime. More on that later. 😉

Please leave your teasers and top tens in comments!

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