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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Miz B at ShouldBeReading where you randomly take two lines from your current read and highlight them in a post. Our choice this week is from Meg Cabot's latest YA novel, Abandon . He'd destroyed the gates to the cemetery. He'd crushed the lock with a single vicious kick from one of those heavy black boots. Then, when the gates crashed violently open, he'd pushed me through them. "Get out," he'd warned in his devil-deep voice. What's everyone reading this week? 

Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 318 pages Publisher: Penguin Group; Original edition (June 9, 2011) Book blurb: Willow has spent most of her life as her mother's sidekick in a popular Las Vegas hypnotism show. So when she and her mom move back to their sleepy southern hometown to start over, she thinks she's in for a life of quiet normalcy. Except that her new life turns out to be anything but, when she kinda sorta hypnotizes Quinton, the hottest guy on the football team, to fall madly, deeply, head over heels in love with her. But what started out as an innocent way to make her best friend, Max, jealous soon gets way out of hand, and Willow begins to wonder if the mind - and more importantly, the heart - is something you can really control. For more on Crush Control : Goodreads    Amazon Barnes & Noble Guest Post by Jennifer Jabalay When people find out that CRUSH CONTROL is about hypnosis, the first thing people ask is, "How did you come ...

The Midsummer's Eve Giveaway Hop, hosted by Inspired Kathy at I am a Reader, Not a Writer , is now underway. There are over 270 blogs participating and the hop ends on Friday at midnight. Our giveaway is one ARC of Chime , a YA novel by Franny Billingsley. Book blurb: Before Briony's stepmother died, she made sure Briony blamed herself for all the family's hardships. Now Briony has worn her guilt for so long it's become a second skin. She often escapes to the swamp, where she tells stories to the Old Ones, the spirits who haunt the marshes. But only witches can see the Old Ones, and in her village, witches are sentenced to death. Briony lives in fear her secret will be found out, even as she believes she deserves the worst kind of punishment. Then Eldric comes along with his golden lion eyes and mane of tawny hair. He's as natural as the sun, and treats her as if she's extraordinary. And everything starts to change. As many secrets as Briony has been holdi...