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 Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson, book #4 in the Truly Devious series.
Sabrina Abbott was doing something illegal.
Impossible.
Sabrina had never done anything illegal. She was Barlow Corners’ paragon of virtue. The valedictorian. The library volunteer who read to children. The person who hyperventilated for ten minutes when she accidentally skipped a class because she was too deep in her research at the school library. The one who every parent of a younger student pointed to and said, “Be like Sabrina when you get to high school.”
This is the very beginning of the book and I can’t wait to see what this character is up to!
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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 Secondary/Minor Characters Who Deserve Their Own Book
I love this topic so much. Onwards!
- Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling: The amount of fan fictions I have read about this character is probably a bit embarrassing. He’s one of my favorite characters from that series because he is so flawed and messed up (and played by one of my all-time favorite actors in the movies, RIP Alan Rickman). I would love a novel about Snape so much.
- Germaine Batt from the Truly Devious series by Maureen Johnson: This is a brand new series that I am still in the middle of, and I already want a story about Germaine. She is a character who seems to know a lot about things that she shouldn’t and always ends up in places you don’t expect her to be. I want to know how she does that!
- Ximena from the Girl of Fire and Thorns series by Rae Carson. We already know there is so much more to Ximena than meets the eye. She’s a nurse and servant to Elisa, but find out later that she is also a guardian sent to protect Elisa as someone who bears a godstone. You know she has a good story!
- Jem Carstairs from the Infernal Devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare: Honestly, I could pick any of Cassie Clare’s characters and want their full backstory. Jem is such a tragic and beautiful character. I want to see more of his life before he met Will and Tessa.
- Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins: This might be a weird choice, but Effie is a weird character. I love how just out there and clueless she is. I think it would be interesting to see what her life is like in the Capitol, being a mentor to so many doomed tributes and still having a somewhat sunny, if vague, disposition.
- Legend from the Caraval series by Stephanie Garber: He’s such a mysterious guy, but so absolutely captivating. I want to learn even more about him, and see exactly how the Caraval came to be from his perspective.
- Margo Roth Speigleman from Paper Towns by John Green: We will never get this because a large part of the story has to do with the mystery that is Margo, but I would absolutely love to not only get that story from Margo’s point of view, but also follow her once she leaves and see what she gets up to.
- Alice Quinn from the Magicians series by Lev Grossman: Honestly, I would love to have this story from anyone’s point of view other than the main character, Quentin. I absolutely can’t stand him. Alice, on the other hand, is a very interesting person who we don’t get to spend a ton of time with in the books, and I would love to see her story.
- Azriel, Morrigan or Amren from the A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas: There were so many characters that could have had more story told about them in this series, but I will narrow it down to these three. I want to know more!
- Devin from the Shadow World series by Dianne Sylvan: He’s one of the oldest vampires still alive, was not fully human even before he was turned, and is one of the ones chosen to help save the world. He is snarky and sarcastic, fabulously gay while also being an absolute badass warrior. One of my favorites in this series for sure.
Please leave your teasers and top tens in comments!
Categories: Teaser Tuesday, Top Ten Tuesdays
Life With No Plot 
I find Snape both fascinating and disturbing. I totally get that he was neglected and mistreated as a child, but his actions toward a number of his students (not just Harry) are cruel and bullying. Some of that may be due to the double-agent role he has to play, but some of it seems to be his personality; I never get the sense that he regrets his treatment of Harry or any of the others. Yet in year 7, as Headmaster, he does attempt to protect the students (without appearing to do so.) He may have been incredibly brave, but even within the Order, he clearly still loathes Sirius and Lupin, and apparently can’t see past Harry’s resemblance to James. Snape is definitely complex, and it would be interesting to understand him better, but he’s deeply unpleasant, and I’m not really sure I would want to spend a whole book in his head (even from a third person POV.)
Maybe not a full book – maybe more of a collection of short stories? He’s definitely not a “good” person, despite his work with the Order, but I still find him fascinating. I just want to see what makes him tick!
Short stories might be a good approach, I agree. It would be easier to take his POV in smaller bites.
Effie would be really cool to get a book for.
I think it would be really funny, since she has such an outlandish personality, but also really tragic, given her time spent with the doomed tributes. I would absolutely love it!
Yes, a book for Severus Snape! I’d read it in a heartbeat!!
Right! He’s such a morally ambiguous character, I think it would be so interesting!
I would love to know more about the magical world as present in the Harry Potter series.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
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There are so many characters that we don’t get to spend enough time with – I could have made a top ten list just with them!