[Teaser Tuesdays]: December 9

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by 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!

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First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea. It lets us share the first paragraph or (a few) of a book we are reading or thinking about reading soon. 

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I love holiday! I got to read lots of great books and there are still pile of them, so I wouldn't need to fret of having none. One of the picks for this week is Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. Despite the humor genre, I still think it's a great one so far. Bray tried to deliver lots of good messages in the book.

Below are the first paragraph and teaser.

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First paragraph:

From the prologue:

This book begins with a plane crash. We do not want you to worry about this. According to the U.S. Department of Unnecessary Statistics, your chances of dying in a plane crash are one in half a million. Whereas your chances of losing your bathing suit bottoms to a strong tide are two to one. So, all in all, it's safer to fly than to go to the beach. As we said, this book begins with a plane crash. They are all beauty queen contestants. You do not need to know their names here. But you will get to know them. They are all such nice girls. Yes, the are nice, happy, shining, patriotic girls who happen to have interests in baton twirling, sign language, AIDS prevention in the animal population, the ancient preparation of popadam, feminine firearms, interpretive dance, and sequins. Such a happy story. And shiny, too.

From the first chapter:

"Are you all right?" 

The voice was tinny in Adina's ears. Her head ached, and she was wet. She remembered the plane pitching and falling, the smoke and screams, the panic, and then nothing. 

"Am I dead?" she asked the face looming over hers. The face had apple cheeks and was framed by a halo of glossy black curls. 

"No." 

 

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Random teaser:

"When they come to rescue us, they will find us with clean, jungle-forward, fashionable huts and a self-sustaining ecosystem. We will be the Miss Teen Dreamers they write about in history books," Taylor said. 

"Nobody writes about Miss Teen Dreamers in history books," Adina scoffed.

~p. 104, "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray.