Teaser Tuesday: Such a Rush
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
·Grab your current read ·Open to a random page
·Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
·Be careful not to include any spoilers so as not to ruin the book for others.
Publication Date: July 10, 2012
Publisher: MTV Books
Pages: 336
Genre: YA, Contemporary
Description from Goodreads:
Heaven Beach, South Carolina, is anything but, if you live at the low-rent end of town. All her life, Leah Jones has been the grown-up in her family, while her mother moves from boyfriend to boyfriend, letting any available money slip out of her hands. At school, they may diss Leah as trash, but she’s the one who negotiates with the landlord when the rent’s not paid. At fourteen, she’s the one who gets a job at the nearby airstrip.
But there’s one way Leah can escape reality. Saving every penny she can, she begs quiet Mr. Hall, who runs an aerial banner-advertising business at the airstrip and also offers flight lessons, to take her up just once. Leaving the trailer park far beneath her and swooping out over the sea is a rush greater than anything she’s ever experienced, and when Mr. Hall offers to give her cut-rate flight lessons, she feels ready to touch the sky.
By the time she’s a high school senior, Leah has become a good enough pilot that Mr. Hall offers her a job flying a banner plane. It seems like a dream come true . . . but turns out to be just as fleeting as any dream. Mr. Hall dies suddenly, leaving everything he owned in the hands of his teenage sons: golden boy Alec and adrenaline junkie Grayson. And they’re determined to keep the banner planes flying.
Though Leah has crushed on Grayson for years, she’s leery of getting involved in what now seems like a doomed business—until Grayson betrays her by digging up her most damning secret. Holding it over her head, he forces her to fly for secret reasons of his own, reasons involving Alec. Now Leah finds herself drawn into a battle between brothers—and the consequences could be deadly.
Teaser:
" As the door was opening, I couldn't see them, but I recognized Alec's voice. "Do you think he's doing her?"
"Good God, no," Jake said.
"Of course he is," Grayson said. "Why else would that stingy bastard give away flying lessons for free?" " (pg. 33)
I didn't get too far into this, but as soon as I hit that line my jaw dropped and I knew it had to be my teaser! What's your teaser this week? Leave me a link in the comments and I'll be sure to stop by!
Wow! Such a fantastic teaser! I just love when you're reading along and find the perfect teaser. :)
ReplyDeleteHere's my TT.
It was the perfect one! And it plays into the whole thing later too! It was awesome :D
DeleteLoved this book! I can't believe the brothers said that about Leah and their father. So mean!
ReplyDeleteMy TT
I Finished it yesterday, I LOVE IT soooo soo much! I couldn't believe it either, but I could see where they were coming from.
DeleteLove this teaser!
ReplyDeleteHere’s mine: http://duckduckcow.blogspot.com/2012/09/teaser-tuesday-abandon.html