Teaser Tuesday – Girl of Nightmares

Teaser Tuesdays 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 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 week, my teaser comes from Girl of Nightmares. I’ll try to make this non-spoilery for people who haven’t read Anna Dressed in Blood.

Girl of Nightmares, by Kendare Blake

From Girl of Nightmares, by Kendare Blake

“I tell myself every time that we’re crazy for doing this,” Carmel mutters. “Every time, I think that I’ll just wait in the car.”

“It’s not like you to stay on the sidelines,” Thomas whispers, and on my other side, I sense Carmel’s smile.

“Get a room,” I mutter, and reach forward to pull open the door.
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Scented smoke curls up in the light gray spirals. He takes a deep breath.

“One more thing,” he says, picking up the drumstick. “Don’t leave the circle until it’s over.” He’s got this “here goes nothing” expression, and I’d like to tell him to be careful, but my whole face feels paralyzed. Just blinking is a challenge.

He rolls his wrist and the drum starts…