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.

I am sharing a teaser from my last read as I do not know how much reading will get done between my finishing it and starting my next one. Not enough time where I am comfortable leaving this post blank at least! Lol.

"'I'm not going to undress you at a cemetery. By my dad's grave.'" p 276

TITLE: The Executioners Three
AUTHOR: Susan Dennard
PUBLISHER: Tor Teen
GENRE: YA Mystery
RELEASE DATE: August 26, 2025

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 Villains

*in no particular order
**Ones I love, ones I love to hate, and ones who confound me

THE LOVE TO HATE:

10. ANARA--I'll admit, it's been a super long time since I read these books but this villain was terrible! I hated that they came between our main couple.
9. MALONE--rockin it old school here! He was a dirty you-know-what!
8. PETER PAN--it's always surreal when you end up hating the boy who never grew up and root for Captain Hook, but that's the magic of books! 

MIXED FEELINGS:

7. JARETH--there's a book adaptation of the movie, so it counts! Lol. Jareth is definitely one of those questionable characters. I love him, but then he's scary...but then it's David Bowie too and he was dreamy! Lol.
6. JULIAN--another character who was questionable. Villainous yes, but then there's always that deeper side that you only get glimpses of...

I LOVE THEM, BUT PROBABLY SHOULDN'T:

5. THE DARKLING--need I explain more?
4. AL--he's a demon, he and Rachel had a complicated relationship throughout the series but they sort of landed on friendship with where we are at now!
3. JACKAL--I shouldn't love him, but I do. I wish he could've had his own book!
2. CATH--this was a villain origin story, so you kind of root for her anyway! I've no shame in loving this girl! Lol.

IT'S COMPLICATED:

1. JACKS--sigh...yes, it's complicated. But needless to say I pretty much loved him!