Teaser Tuesday: 24th July

Teaser Tuesday is a meme hosted by Miz of Should Be Reading. This is managed by Brittany every week (starting from today). All you have to do to join in is: 
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share a few 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!

The Forsaken (The Forsaken #1) by Lisa M. Stasse

On Goodreads

A thought-provoking and exciting start to a riveting new dystopian trilogy.

As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet—having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up.

The life expectancy of prisoners on The Wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. Desperate, she and the other prisoners concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway.

From pg 22 (this could differ on different copies, e-readers and what-not):

"Someone with a shaved head and blackened teeth, with curved talons for fingers. Carrying a blood splattered weapon. Instead, I see a remarkably good-looking teenage boy staring defiantly into the camera lens."