Teaser Tuesday 1/12/10

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's what you do...

• Grab your current read
• flip to a random page
• select a few sentences from anywhere on the page
• try not to include any SPOILERS!
• make sure you tell the name of book and the author so we can add the book to our TBR pile!

Please feel free to add your link below so it's easy for others to check out your posts!


The drivers side window rolled down and revealed a young man whom fathers of teenage daughters would shoot on sight. He had pale skin and deep gray eyes. His dark slightly curly hair was long enough to declare casual rebellion and tousled to careless perfection. He faced straight ahead so I saw only his profile but I felt confident that he was smirking on the other side of his face too.
"Thomas" I said. "A lesser man than me would hate you."

He grinned. "There's someone lesser than you?"

Small Favor, Jim Butcher p. 82







Was it possible? Was the child actually changing, his face shifting so that his features softened? It was as if seeing the horror in the gentleman's eyes the toddler willed himself to change his appearance into something more attractive. Was it a flickering of the gas light? No, the boys face was indeed altered.


The Hunchback Assignments, Arthur Slade p. 13





" Is that such a good idea? Maybe you should wait a day or two. See what happens." I said.

She laughed. "And join your band of superheroes? Sorry but I'm allergic to spandex."


The Awakening, Kelly Armstrong p. 106