Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays

 

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker. 

Here are the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a page
3. Pick out 2 lines that are SPOILER FREE
4. Name the title, author, etc.

So yeah, here I am giving another teaser from my last read! I ended up finishing this one late Friday night and then was busy so I haven't started my next read as of writing this post, so here's a teaser from my last read again! Lol. I never saw this movie the teaser is mimicking, but know of it and it just made me laugh.

"Max leans over from the driver's seat. 'Get in, losers, we're going sleuthing.'" p 190

TITLE: That's Not My Name
AUTHOR: Megan Lally
PUBLISHER: Sourcefire Books
GENRE: YA Thriller
RELEASE DATE: December 26, 2023

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and The Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. 

This week's topic is: Top Ten Authors Who Live in Missouri OR Books That Mention St. Louis! (submitted by Jennifer @ Funk-N-Fiction)

*in no particular order
**kind of twisted the second half, as apparently, not many of the authors I read live in my state, which totally makes sense as they so rarely come here...either I get them once or maybe twice, and other times I go to them!

AUTHORS WITH MO CONNECTIONS:

10. PAULA STOKES--so this is a twofer! Not only did Paula live in St. Louis for a time, but this book takes place in St. Louis as you can see by the Arch!
9. TIFFANY D. JACKSON--Tiffany, I read, has connections to the Midwest area by being the Executive Director of the Gateway EITC Community Coalition. I totally forgot what this was, but it came up when I was trying to search for MO authors that I've read!
8. SABRINA BLACKBURRY--she lives in more southern MO if I recall! She's come up to the St. Charles area for her last two books at least! Here's hoping she comes for the next book...though I still need to read the second book!

BOOKS THAT MENTION ST. LOUIS/MO:

7. THE DEVIL'S THIEF by Lisa Maxwell--I still need to read this series, but this second book mentioned St. Louis in the blurb, so stuff happens there! Lol.
6. BLOOD MAGIC by Tessa Gratton--in my review from long ago--don't read it. It's from my early blogging days and might be scary. I can't vouch for my early stuff.--I mentioned that this book name drops St. Louis! I don't remember in what context, but it's there! I can't remember if Tessa was from MO or not, her bio mentions Kansas prairies so she could be near the border?
5. DYING BITES by D.D. Barant--I saw I mentioned in my review--another early one, read at your own risk--that St. Louis was name-dropped again! I think it was a bureau location or something like that. A HQ or something was in St. Louis, though the characters never go there.

4. THUNDERHEAD by Neal Shusterman--checking my review of this one, I recalled that the characters visited the long ago city named St. Louis! So that was fun! What they saw or happened there I cannot say, for I do not remember. Lol.
3. THE INDIGO SPELL by Richelle Mead--you know I was doing a search all over my blog for this post! But yes, Sydney actually goes to St. Louis in this one! 
2. FIRST DROP OF CRIMSON by Jeaniene Frost--now this one, I vaguely remember, but Spade LIVED in St. Louis, or had a house here at least! 

1. PALE DEMON by Kim Harrison--this is probably my favorite instance of St. Louis being mentioned in a book for Rachel and her friends were on a road trip of sorts going cross-country pretty much and they have a stop in St. Louis...where they knock over the Arch!