Monday’s First Sentence ~ The Buried by Melissa Grey
“What the light gives… the light can also take away.”
Weekly Quote for Week-45 2021 ~ Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
“I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia.”
Review for Dead Day
Blog Tour ~ The Ballad of Ami Miles by Kristy Dallas Alley ~ Excerpt
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Agnes at the End of the World
Once, a girl lived in a double-wide trailer on ranchland, beneath a wide white sky tumbled with clouds. The Prophet, a scowling crow of a man, presided over everyone and everything. When the girl wasn’t praying or busy with chores, she’d spin in meadows dancing with bees and dandelions, until Father called her name from the porch: “Agnes, back in the house.”
Run.
Review for The Prophet Calls
Friday’s Page 69 ~ The Prophet Calls
Unfamiliar shouts outside our bedroom door awaken me to the darkness. Heavy stomps approach. Beside me, Amy doesn’t move. I sit upright in bed as the door bursts open, splitting the wood along the doorframe.
Meryl screams from her bed. Someone flips on the the light. It’s two men, dressed in black: the God Squad.
Monday’s First Sentence ~ Devoted
James Fulton is sweating like a sinner in church.
Review for Club Dead
“The air was cold and wet, and if you stood still for a moment the chilling damp would creep into your bones. I could tell the temperature was taking a deep dive, and the bright sky of the morning was a fond memory. It was an appropriate day to dump a body.”