Teaser Tuesday: Benjamin Nicholas & The Golden Key by SC Crovo and Red Hood By Elana K. Arnold

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Purple Booker. Bloggers choose two 

sentences out of our current read to pique others' curiosity.

Benjamin Nicholas & the Golden Key by SC Crovo
 

A Lonely Boy. A Secret Wish. Will a Golden Key Unlock Hidden Magic?
“Dear Santa”…Benjamin Nicholas asks for only one wish in his letter to Santa: to live at the North Pole. His letters haven’t been answered so far, but this could be the year! The letter mysteriously disappears, and Benjamin is ready to give-up until a strange boy joins him in the school lunch room with a plate of ornate sugar cookies.
“Hi, my name is Kalto,” he said clearly despite the cookie remnants in his mouth, “and you’re Benjamin Nicholas.”
Kalto seems to know Benjamin, but how? Lunch gets even stranger when Kalto delivers a message. Benjamin belongs to the Magical Families of Nicholas! His magic is in a key, but Benjamin doesn’t have it. They must travel deep within a mountain to the Nicholas World of Sankelves. On their journey, Benjamin gets his wish and discovers that the North Pole, full of wonders and secrets, is not as he imagined. Will Benjamin find his key, and who else seeks its special magic?
Benjamin Nicholas & The Golden Key is the first book in SC Crovo’s Benjamin Nicholas Children’s Fantasy Series. Cherished legends, magical creatures, young heroes, and dark villains will pull you into the magical worlds of SC Crovo’s series!

Teaser: 

"Here's your first gift Benjamin. Do you know what this is?" Delana asked, letting the key dangle from her hand. "Of course you don't. It's my golden key. Now it's your golden key, Benjamin. I give it to you freely and by my own choice." She placed the chain over her son's head.

 Jenn's:

Red Hood By Elana K. Arnold
 

You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are nearly naked.

And the wolf is angry.

Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old, Bisou Martel has lived a quiet life in a little house in Seattle. She’s kept mostly to herself. She’s been good. But then comes the night of homecoming, when she finds herself running for her life over roots and between trees, a fury of claws and teeth behind her. A wolf attacks. Bisou fights back. A new moon rises. And with it, questions. About the blood in Bisou’s past and on her hands as she stumbles home. About broken boys and vicious wolves. About girls lost in the woods—frightened, but not alone.

Teaser: 
Meme scans the scene- you, thick with blood; Keisha, leg slashed, looking now  like she might pass out; James car, parked in her garage. 
"Did anyone see you?"
Her voice is sharp, but not scared. Not surprised, even. 

Teaser Tuesday: Monsterland by Michael Okon and The Missing Season by Gillian French

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Books and a Beat. Bloggers choose two 

sentences out of our current read to pique others' curiosity.

Monsterland by Michael Okon
 

Welcome to Monsterland, the scariest place on earth.

When world markets are decimated by a crippling plague, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, Vincent Konrad decides to place monsters in a theme park setting to promote education and tolerance. Copper Valley is chosen as the primary site for the park in the United States.

Wyatt Baldwin, a high school senior is dying to go to the opening and when he lands special passes to the park, he and his friends are expecting the experience of a lifetime.

After all, in a theme park where real zombies, werewolves, and vampires are the main attractions, what could possibly go wrong?

Teaser: 

Billy tore through the brush, thorns ripping his fur, and in his adrenaline rush , he didn't feel anything. He glanced backward; the humans were chasing him, one running with a huge camera. Nine other hunters followed, the long barrels of their rifles bearing down on them. 



 Jenn's:

The Missing Season by Gillian French 

 

Whenever another kid goes missing in October, the Pender kids know what is really behind it: a horrific monster out in the marshes they have named the Mumbler.
That’s what Clara’s new crew tells her when she moves to town: Bree and Sage, who take her under their wing; spirited Trace, who has taken the lead on this year’s Halloween prank war; and magnetic Kincaid, whose devil-may-care attitude and air of mystery are impossible for Clara to resist.
Clara doesn’t actually believe in the Mumbler. But as Halloween gets closer and tensions build in the town, it’s hard to shake the feeling that there really is something dark and dangerous in Pender, lurking in the shadows, waiting to bring the stories to life.

Teaser: 

We walk the trail three abreast, hands in our pockets, footsteps crunching. It's dark here, patches of fading daylight showing through branches like cutouts in a black valentine doily. 

Teaser Tuesday: Dead River by Cyn Balog and Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Books and a Beat. Bloggers choose two 

sentences out of our current read to pique others' curiosity.

Dead River by Cyn Balog
 

My friends and I are spending prom weekend at a remote wooded cabin on the Dead. The Dead River.

I thought it was going to be just us.

I was wrong.

Nothing is what it seems in this creepy paranormal thriller by Cyn Balog.

Teaser: 

Have you ever heard of suicide by river? You just wade out deeper and deeper, and before long the current carries you away. And by then there is nothing you can do about it. 

Jenn's:

Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist
 

With a touch, Lexi can sense how and when someone will die. Some say it’s a gift. But to Lexi it’s a curse—one that keeps her friendless and alone. All that changes when Lexi foresees the violent death of a young woman, Jane, outside a club. But Jane doesn’t go to the afterlife quietly. Her ghost remains behind, determined to hunt down her murderer, and she needs Lexi’s help. In life, Jane was everything Lexi is not—outgoing, happy, popular. But in death, all Jane wants is revenge. Lexi will do anything to help Jane, to make up for the fact that she didn’t—couldn’t—save Jane’s life, and to keep this beautiful ghost of a girl by her side for as long as possible.

Teaser: 
"I don't know, " Jane repeats. "I don't have any answers for you, all right? My memory is like Swiss Cheese and I can't stop bleeding." She wipes at her neck angrily. 

Teaser Tuesday: Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger and Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Books and a Beat. Bloggers choose two 

sentences out of our current read to pique others' curiosity.

Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger
 

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.

Teaser: 

Sophronia didn't say anything in response to that. In all her fourteen long years, she had never stayed stationary and uninvolved in anything. Nevertheless, she did end up following her new teacher's orders this once, for the squeak deck became suddenly cover in mechanicals. Sophronia was hard put to find a spot safe from being bumped.

Jenn's:

Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett
 

After an awkward first encounter, Birdie and Daniel are forced to work together in a Seattle hotel where a famous author leads a mysterious and secluded life in this romantic contemporary novel from the author of Alex, Approximately.

Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, she’s cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel.

In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer, and gregarious Daniel Aoki volunteers to be her guide. The hotel’s charismatic young van driver shares the same nocturnal shift and patronizes the waterfront Moonlight Diner where she waits for the early morning ferry after work. Daniel also shares her appetite for intrigue, and he’s stumbled upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writer—never before seen in public—might be secretly meeting someone at the hotel.

To uncover the writer’s puzzling identity, Birdie must come out of her shell…discovering that most confounding mystery of all may be her growing feelings for the elusive riddle that is Daniel

Teaser: 
Okay. Deep breath. Maybe I was confused. This could be someone else who looked liked him. A Twin? 

Teaser Tuesday: Last Girl Lied To by L.E. Flynn and The Raven's Tale by Cat Winters

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Books and a Beat. Bloggers choose two 

sentences out of our current read to pique others' curiosity.

Last Girl Lied to by L.E. Flynn
 

Something made him angry that night.

Something made her cry.

Something made Trixie disappear.

What if it was all the same thing?

Fiona claims she doesn’t remember anything about the night her best friend left a party early and walked into the ocean. But the truth is, she wishes she could forget.

Trixie’s disappearance is ruled a suicide, but Fiona starts to believe that Trixie isn’t really dead. Piecing together the trail of a girl who doesn't want to be found leads her to Jasper, Trixie’s former friend with benefits, and Beau—the boy who turned Fiona down, who loved someone else, who might be happy Trixie is gone.

The closer Fiona gets to finding out what happened, and the closer she gets to Jasper and Beau, the more she realizes that the girl she knew better than anyone may have been a carefully constructed lie—and she might have been waiting to disappear the entire time.

Told in alternating chapters between the past and the present,Last Girl Lied To is a gripping emotional thriller.

Teaser: 

I don't know how long it took us to become best friends. Two weeks, maybe. Two hours. Or maybe it was in the first two minutes after you hopped into my car, when all I felt was this rush of possibility. The funny thing is, I never should have met Trixie Heller. 

Jenn's:

The Raven's Tale by Cat Winters
 

Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster family—the wealthy Allans of Richmond, Virginia. He hungers for his upcoming life as a student at the prestigious new university, almost as much as he longs to marry his beloved Elmira Royster. However, on the brink of his departure, all his plans go awry when a macabre Muse named Lenore appears to him. Muses are frightful creatures that lead Artists down a path of ruin and disgrace, and no respectable person could possibly understand or accept them. But Lenore steps out of the shadows with one request: “Let them see me!”

Teaser: 
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I imagine myself saying from the pulpit in the pink sanctuary of our church. My name is Edgar Poe, and today, for reasons I don't fully understand, I'm obsessed with the seventy-tow bodies buried beneath us.