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 Last Orphans by N. W. Harris.

So exhausted he feared he’d fall asleep on his feet if he didn’t keep moving, Shane made his way to the metal door through which Tracy and Aaron exited. He refused to lie down until they returned safely, wishing he’d gone with Tracy instead of Aaron. But he recalled a game last year when he’d chosen not to pass to an open receiver and ran the ball into the in-zone himself. In spite of the points Shane earned making the play, Coach scolded him for rushing the ball and not using his team. A true leader was not afraid to have faith in his team, Coach said. Shane had to trust Aaron and Tracy would be safe, and he was better off here, protecting the kids.

This is a book that I got for free from BookBub years ago. Very post-apocalyptic. Very gruesome. I’m enjoying it so far!

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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 I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn’t Get To

There were several books I wanted to get to in 2023 – a.k.a. my Beat the Backlist challenge. While I did pretty well whittling away at my backlog of a TBR, there is always room for improvement. Here are ten books that I would have liked to have read last year, but just didn’t quite make the cut.

1. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
2. Pretty Girl-13 by Liz Coley
3. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
4. The Dysasters by P.C.Cast & Kristin Cast
5. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
6. The Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter
7. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
8. The Iron Trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare
9. The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
10. The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shephard

Please leave your teasers and top tens in comments!

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