I honestly can’t
stand books that start off slow because I can’t get myself to really dive into
it and wait out the long beginning. So that being said I chose a quote from the
beginning of the book (actually it’s the first sentence) that I found “hooking”
because it really gave me the sense that I wouldn’t have to wait for the real
story to begin. The quote I chose was “The week before I left my family and Florida
and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother
insisted on throwing me a going-away party.” This sentence showed me that A)
there’s only a week until the main part of the story begins, B) He’s traveling
to a whole new state and lifestyle which should be interesting, and C) That
this main character who I presumed was telling the story had a bit of an
attitude and kind of showed his opinion right off the bat by using the word insisted
instead of decided or another word like that. Now, usually I don’t get hooked
right away in a book and it takes a while but in this book I knew I would like
it right from the start and I felt the same way the whole time I read this
book.
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