Today’s Teaser Tuesday is part of the Quarantine: The Loners Blog Tour! I am so honored to be a part of this tour. I read this book back in July and LOVED it! (MY REVIEW) It is one crazy ride that I could not put down and I hope you will give it a shot! But for now, check out this teaser!
Quarantine: The Loners by Lex Thomas
Published: July 10th 2012 by EgmontUSA
It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High—until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And that was just the beginning.
A year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. The school is under military quarantine. The teachers are gone. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques. Without a gang, you’re as good as dead. And David has no gang. It’s just him and his little brother, Will, against the whole school.
In this frighteningly dark and captivating novel, Lex Thomas locks readers inside a school where kids don’t fight to be popular, they fight to stay alive.
The Teaser:
“McKinley High School crested over the horizon and stared back at them with its countless, tinted eyes, baring its white column teeth.”
I love this teaser because it is some serious foreshadowing for what is to come in the novel! I’m sure a lot of teens feel this way when they look at the school on the first day but wow, aren’t these kids in for a treat when they step through those doors! What do you guys think? Did you ever imagine your school in such a way?
Now onto the giveaway! Two lucky winners will have the chance to win a personalized, autographed copy of Quarantine! Just enter the rafflecopter below! (Terms and Conditions are located at the bottom of the rafflecopter.)
Check out the Blog Tour Schedule:
Monday, September 10th – Wastepaper Prose
Tuesday, September 11th – Bewitched Bookworms
Wednesday, September 12th – Novel Novice
Thursday, September 13th – The Bookish Brunette
Friday, September 14th – The PageTurners
Monday, September 17th – MundieMoms
Tuesday, September 18th – Forever 17 Books
Wednesday, September 19th – Evie Bookish
Thursday, September 20th – Once upon a Prologue
Friday, September 21st – The Bookswarm
Monday, September 24th – Reading Angel
Tuesday, September 25th – Fire and Ice
Wednesday, September 26th – Emily’s Reading Room
Thursday, September 27th – Fiktshun
Friday, September 28th – Hypable
About Lex Thomas:
Lex Thomas is the pen name for the writing team of Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies. Their first novel, QUARANTINE: THE LONERS, earned a starred review from Booklist, and Huffington Post Books called it “one of the best books that I have ever read.”
Lex received a BA in Drama and English from the University of Virginia and has worked as an actor, director and writer. Thomas graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, and now writes, and exhibits his realist oil paintings in Los Angeles.
Lex and Thomas met in a writers’ group in Los Angeles. Their friendship developed as they tried to blow each other’s minds with clips from bizarre movies. In 2005, they became a screenwriting team, and found that writing with a friend is much more fun than doing it alone. Visit them at www.lex-thomas.com.
*Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
Jennifer
I have a copy of this one, but truthfully, it doesn’t look like my thing.
Good teaser though!
Thanks for stopping by my TT at YA Sisterhood.
Sam
Interesting teaser! I haven’t heard much about this book, but I do like the sound of it. I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Valerie StuckInBooks
Wow, this book looks interesting. Great teaser.
Valerie
StuckInBooks.com
Jen Ryland/YA Romantics
Wow — this does sound really dark. I’ll have to decide if I can handle it…
Nereyda @Mostly YA Book Obsessed
I have been seeing this book EVERYWHERE! I’m really into contemporary books right now so I might have to visit it again later when I go to my next phase.
Wrighty
Great teaser! I have to read this now! I’ll have to check out the rest of the tour too. Thanks for the info!
Wrighty
Sorry, I made a mistake on the Rafflecopter form. I didn’t get all my mailing info in and can’t fix it. I can email it if you’d like.
sarabara081 @ Forever 17 Books
I sent an email to Kismet Book Touring, who is hosting the giveaway, to let them know!
Heather
Hi, Wrighty! If you’d like to email me at heatherbannon@kismetbt.com, I can update that information for you. Thanks so much for participating and good luck!!!!
Sierra
This was the first time I had heard about this book, but now I want to read it as it sounds so interesting! And the cover is pretty cool too 😀 Sierra
Keep growing beautiful!
Erika
This looks like a great book! Thanks for the chance to win!
Seyma Bennett Shabbir
Perfect for me! I love horror – esp zombie. Even if there are none it sounds like the same arena.
seyma_bennett@hotmail.com
Ellen
This book sounds great, and I love the teaser. Thanks for the giveaway also.
Elizabeth
New Follower…Love your tiger.
Nice teaser.
Here is my teaser from MURDER TAKES TIME by Giacomo Giammatteo. It was GOOD…just finished it yesterday.
http://silversolara.blogspot.com/2012/09/teaser-tuesday-925.html