Teaser Tuesday: How Can You NOT Love a Book with People-Dissolving Sea Monsters?

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 & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Ah, Quirk Classics. What would I do without you? You introduced me to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and it was love at first bite. Now, you bring me Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and I am drowned in a sea of beautiful prose, star-crossed lovers ad ichor-dripping sea monsters:

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

(Philadelphia: Quick Books, 2009)
Trade Paperback, 344 Pages, Fiction

ISBN: 9781594744426, US$12.95

My Teaser: “As the party watched in stunned horror, Miss Bellwether was wrapped inside the quavering blanket shape of the beast and consumed; the stomach acids of the enormous jellyfish dissolved her flesh, emitting a sickening sizzling noise, followed by a sort of unholy belch. And then, as quickly as it had come, the creature dragged itself back into the sea; the tide withdrew; and all that was left of Miss Bellwether was a pile of corroded bones, a lump of hair, and a whalebone corset” (62).