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 teaser comes from The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman.

It was just easier to believe in the boogeyman than to acknowledge that there were so many evil people in the world.

I’m going with just one sentence, short and simple, because it just hits hard, especially these days. Also, this book is unbelievable. It’s the book club pick for this month and I can’t WAIT for the meeting. I’m almost done with it and I have no idea how this is going to wrap up – but I’m suspicious of everyone right now!

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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 (or Five) Books I Did Not Finish (DNFed)

The problem with this one is that even if a book is bad, I tend to try and finish it. I don’t know why – I guess maybe I try to give the author the benefit of the doubt, even if the writing is bad? I’m hoping it will get better until they run out of pages? Maybe. In any case, because of this, I am going with books that I ALMOST didn’t finish. I wanted to quit, kept going, and was still disappointed.

1. Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn: I felt bad for not liking this one, since I know a lot of people like this author. It just felt too confusing.
2. Zone One by Colson Whitehead: I may have actually DNFed this one. To me, it felt like it was rambling so much and I couldn’t get a good grasp of the story.
3. Girl of Myth and Legend by Giselle Simlett: The main character in this book is an ungrateful, whiny brat and stays that way throughout the entire story. She got on my nerves so bad.
4. The Dysasters by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: I have enjoyed books by the Casts before, but this one was a miss. There were too many things that were predictable and the characters were too bland to overlook that.
5. The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth: I read this because it was the inspiration for the musical Love Never Dies (a sequel of sorts to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera). The musical itself was just okay, and the book was not what I was expecting or wanted at all.

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Please leave your teasers and top tens in comments!

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