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Monday, February 11, 2013

TEASER TUESDAY ~ IF YOU STAY by COURTNEY COLE




Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along, just do as 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.

Make sure to share the title and the author so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR piles.

If You StayGenre: Contemporary New Adult
Publisher: Lakehouse Press
Publication Date: 2/12/13

24-year old Pax Tate is an asshole.
Seriously.

He’s a tattooed, rock-hard bad-boy with a bad attitude to match.

But he’s got his reasons.

His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn’t understand why. What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with more issues than they can count.

As Pax grew up, he tried to be the kid his father always wanted; the perfect golden boy, but it didn’t work. His dad couldn’t overcome his grief long enough to notice and Pax couldn’t keep up the impossible perfect façade.
So he slipped far, far from it.

Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugliness, the black void that he doesn’t want to deal with. If he pretends that the emptiness isn’t there, then it isn’t, right?
Wrong.

And it’s never more apparent than when he meets Mila.
Sweet, beautiful Mila Hill is the fresh air to his hardened frown, the beauty to his ugly heart. He doesn’t know how to not hurt her, but he quickly realizes that he’s got to figure it out because he needs her to breathe.

When memories of his mother’s death resurface from where he’s repressed them for so long, Mila is there to catch him when the guilt starts making sense. Mila is the one…the one who can save him from his broken troubled heart; from his issues, from the emptiness.

But only if he can stop being an asshole long enough to allow it.

He knows that. And he’s working on it.

But is that enough to make her stay?


My Teaser ~


  The night swallows me and I am propelled into the darkness, far above the clouds and into the night sky, sailing through the stars, past the moon. Reaching out, I touch it with a finger.
  I laugh.
  Or I think I laugh.
  It's hard to say at this point. I don't know what's real or not real. And that's just the way I like it.  ~2%



If You Stay releases TODAY! Come check out my stop on the blog tour, which includes a review and giveaway!

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19 comments:

  1. I like this teaser. =) Thanks a lot for sharing. My TT

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  2. Aw, this is sad :( I want to know what you think of this book already :) It seems like a great book!

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  3. Sounds like this person is trying to escape.. This sounds beautiful.. added to GoodReads... :)

    My Teasers

    Happy Reading :)

    Keely @ Realms of an Open Mind

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  4. This book sounds really good but I feel so bad for poor Pax. Great teaser.

    My Teaser

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  5. I would like to know the difference between what is real and what isn't myself. Interesting teaser!
    Here's ours: http://www.ourstack.blogspot.com/2013/02/tuesday-teaser-revolution-19-and-suspect.html

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  6. This one's popular today. :) Sounds like a great read, but your tease is my favorite...it's rather poignant, isn't it? Thanks for sharing! Here's my teaser! Happy Tuesday! :D

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  7. Nice Teaser! I need to add this one to my pile! Here's mine..
    http://winterhavenbooks.blogspot.com/2013/02/teaser-tuesday-15.html

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  8. Oh that is an interesting teaser! Cannot wait to start on this one!

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  9. Great teaser!! Loved this book so much!!

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  10. Great teaser!! The book is on my TBR list for sure!!

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  11. Yes, please. Amazing teaser and I LOVE Courtney! Thanks so much for sharing and for stopping by my Teaser.
    Happy Reading :D

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  12. Great teaser! I have this book on my wishlist.....sounds so good

    Here's My TT

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  13. Interesting teaser! I'm curious to know what the whole scene is. I can't wait to read this one! :)

    ~ Maida
    Literary Love Affair 

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  14. Sounds like a fascinating book!

    http://carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com/2013/02/teaser-tuesdays_12.html

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  15. Oh Pax! Loved him so much. Great teaser.

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  16. Great teaser! I need to add this for sure! Thanks for stopping by my TT

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  17. Nice teaser - we had the same book on our mind today. I loved it.

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