Top 10 Books December 2019
Review for Crooked Kingdom
“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ The Good Thieves
Vita set her jaw and nodded at the city in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.
She stood alone on the deck of the ship. The sea was wild and stormy, casting salt spray thirty feet into the air, and all the other passengers on the ocean liner, including her mother, had taken sensible refuge in their cabins.
But it is not always sensible to be sensible.
Review for Stage Dreams
Top 10 Books May 2019
Review for Six of Crows
“I’m a business man,” he’d told her. “No more, no less.”
“You’re a thief, Kaz.”
“Isn’t that what I just said?”
Weekly Quote for Week-14 2019 ~ Crooked Kingdom
“No.”
“Oh.”
“I have several.”
“Take me with you.””
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros ~ Six of Crows
Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache.
He was supposed to be making his rounds at the Hoede house, but for the last fifteen minutes, he’d been hovering around the southeast wall of the gardens, trying to think of something clever and romantic to say to Anya
If only Anya’s eyes were blue like the sea or green like an emerald. Instead, her eyes were brown — lovely, dreamy… melted chocolate brown? Rabbit fur brown?
“Just tell her she’s got skin like moonlight,” his friend Pieter had said. “Girls love that.”