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 Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco, book #2 in The Bone Witch series.
She wore the corpses for show. They trailed behind her, grotesque fabrics of writhing flesh and bone, spreading across the plain for miles around us. Those bereft of legs and feet used hands and elbows; those lacking jaws and tongues moaned from the hollows of their throats. Those onlookers who drew close grasped at the train of her gown until I was no longer certain where her dress ended and they began.
“Intimidation,” she told me, amused by my repulsion. “Men abandon battle when they see their own fates in these ruined faces.”
Pretty gruesome beginning. I love it!
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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 Favorite Books of 2023
I read so many good ones last year and found so many new authors to follow. In no particular order, here are the books that I enjoyed the most in 2023.
- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel
- Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by Myeongseok Kang et al.
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Please leave your teasers and top tens in comments!
Categories: Teaser Tuesday, Top Ten Tuesdays
Life With No Plot 
Fourth Wing has been on so many lists this week!
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
I can imagine. It seemed like it was everywhere for a while!
Love the blog look!!! There’s a lot of great reads on there. I definitely love the Truly Devious series!
Thanks! Yes, I really enjoyed that series a lot, although I have to admit, I felt like the first book was the best of the bunch. Once they got away from the school, it wasn’t as much fun for me. Still fun, just not as much.
Yeah, I totally agree with that. The first book was the best. The latest book that came out last year was my least favorite.
I also loved Fourth Wing. Happy 2024!
Fourth Wing was everywhere for a while, wasn’t it! Have you read Iron Flame yet? I just finished it about a week ago and whoa! So much going on!
I have! I enjoyed it! The end shocked me.
Me too! Did not see that coming!
I have put THE FOURTH WING on hold at my library because I’ve see it on so many lists. I almost read TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW this year, but I didn’t get to it. Maybe this year, lol. Happy 2024!
https://jennielyse.com/top-ten-tuesday-43/
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was wonderful. I think it was one of the first books I read in the year and it stuck with me ever since.
If I had made a list of my top 10 re-reads of 2023, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle would definitely have been near the top. I read it for the first time 4 years ago and had some issues with it, but when I re-read it this past year, I was able to overlook those issues and just enjoy the twisty story. Great book!
It’s so wonderfully twisted!
I love the whole Truly Devious series. It’s so clever and fun! I’m glad you loved it and all these others.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
It was so good!
Am I the onlp oerson who hasn’t read Fourth Wing. I will have to get a copy and read it as it has appeared on so many lists. My top ten are here https://somanygoodbooks.edublogs.org/2024/01/02/my-top-ten-of-2023/
It’s a really engaging read. If you like fantasy and dragons with a sarcastic streak, you’ll love it.
Nice teaser! That’s a new to me read but the author is familiar.
Great top 10 too! I still need to start Maureen’s series! So behind! I keep meaning to pick it up but then other books get in the way! Fourth Wing is definitely making a lot of lists this week!
Thanks for visiting my TTT!
Yeah, I’m seeing Fourth Wing everywhere! And yes, do read the Truly Devious series. It’s really good, although the first book was the best of the bunch, in my opinion. Not that the others were bad, they were just . . . lacking something.
Firekeeper’s Daughter is one I’m excited to read. The library waitlist is so long!
It’s worth it!
Very creepy excerpt! I love it too!
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle didn’t make my top ten list but it was my favorite mysterious book of the year. I read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel and really enjoyed it but haven’t gotten around to listening to any of her other books yet.