Teaser Tuesday - The Lie

Today I'm featuring a teaser from The Lie, an edgy young adult novel written by Lori Pollard-Johnson. (I featured her book Toxic Torte last week.)

Saturday morning I woke up wondering if no lecture was worse than sitting through an hour of Mom and Dad’s tag team ranting. On the one hand, it was a pain in the ass hearing them using the future as a weapon to get me to change. On the other hand, without a lecture I could only conclude one thing: They’d given up on me. (approx pg 25)


I LOVED THIS BOOK !!!!


Here's the synopsis from Amazon:
Seventeen-year-old Jace Thaden aches to become a man, but not if it means becoming his overbearing father. So when his girlfriend Hayley announces that she’s pregnant on the same day he flunks his chemistry mid-term and is suspended from the baseball team, he sees only one way to escape his dad's lectures and disapproving eyes of his small hometown...and make money to support Hayley and the baby: the army. Unfortunately, he’s underage. So he lies. He enlists under his brother’s name and enters a dangerous world of true belonging and unforgiving challenge. 

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of 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 and author too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers.