This week I'm reading a couple of ARCs, and really don't feel good about quoting from books that haven't actually been published yet. So my teaser lines come from a book I'm thinking about reading. One of the groups I follow at Good Reads has chosen Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden as their group read in April, and since I already had it on my TBR list, it's tempting to join in. However, the book is over 500 hundred pages long, in the paperback edition. So I'm still trying to decide if I should take the plunge right now.Since I haven't actually started reading yet, I'm not really certain exactly what's going on here, or who the people are, or how they relate to the story. But this snippet comes very early on, from page 11:
Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in her ear. Transferred the secret he and her mother had kept for seventeen years. . . . Watched as the bottom fell out of her world and the person she had been vanished in an instant.So, should I throw caution to the wind and keep reading, or what?
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Must be a major secret. I think I'd have to keep reading if I were you.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely....you need to find out more! Great tease!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds fairly ominous. And interesting, of course. I'm curious now - you've done your job well! Great teaser.
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Yes! Yes! Yes! This is such a wonderful book. I loved it. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
ReplyDeleteMy TT is from The Seventh Witch and can be found here
This is definitely the best teaser I have come across, it leaves one completely teased. What happened? My TT: http://www.rundpinne.com/2010/04/teaser-tuesdays-in-shadow-of-cypress.html
ReplyDeleteGreat teaser, leaves you wanting much more, thanks!
ReplyDeleteOh yes, keep reading that teaser has me interested.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you will enjoy your book. [My Tuesday Teaser]
ReplyDeleteI WOULD! I've had this one on my shelf forever but haven't been able to find time to get to it! If my April were more open than it is, I would join that group on GoodReads. Great teaser. Mine is at The Crowded Leaf.
ReplyDeleteKeep reading!! Thanks for stopping by my blog! :)
ReplyDeleteI know I'm tempted to pick up that book just by reading that teaser.
ReplyDeleteThat must have been a devastating secret! Keep rading!
ReplyDeleteHere's my Teaser Tuesday.
Wow! Pretty powerful stuff. I think I'll have to add that to my to read list. Thanks for checking out my teaser earlier!
ReplyDeleteOh yes....please keep reading and tell us about it!!
ReplyDeleteInteresting teaser! I'd definitely keep reading if I were you! I'm adding this book to my tbr list right now.
ReplyDeleteSounds like something I would read.
ReplyDeletehere's mine
I wonder how you could stop!!
ReplyDeleteVery tempting to keep reading, I'd say!
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