Friday’s Page 69 ~ Front Desk by Kelly Yang
“I’m sorry to hear that,” he said. “But you know what? Come here, let me show you something.”
I followed him out to the parking lot. The two of us stood in front of Billy Bob’s old blue station wagon.
“See that sticker on my car?” Billy Bob asked, pointing to a shiny sticker on the driver’s side window.
I squinted at the words. It said Don’t Touch! Alarm System Installed!
Billy Bob leaned over, cupped his hand, and whispered into my ear, “There’s no alarm system.”
I smiled.
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ The Ghost of Spruce Point by Nancy Tandon
The bloodred moon casts an eerie glow over the bay. Fog lifts off the ocean and swirls around us as the lapping splash of the incoming tide sways the thick wooden posts of the dock beneath me. If there is a perfect time and place for a ghost story, I’m sitting smack-dab in the middle of it.
“Tell it again, Dad. Please tell it!”
Dad steps back from the telescope and sits next to me, our legs dangling above the dark, churning water. He tightens the hood of his parka against the late-May chill and takes a big sniff of the air. I do the same. If one of the fancy tourist shops in Bar Harbour ever made a candle called Spruce Point, it would smell like this: a mix of spruce, pine, and fir trees layered with the heavy scent of briny ocean.
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel
The crow waits until the guilty one disappears; then he flies down the hallway. How he wound up in this part of the hotel, he cannot recall. He has no memory of the tartan wallpaper, the dim flicker of the sconces. He does not know which humans lie behind which doors.
He knows only to obey the scream of his instincts.
Leave.
Now.
Go.
Danger hangs over this place like a blackening cloud. The people inside are not to be trusted. The crow rests for a moment on the horse hanging from the sky. He dares not wait long. Soon they will all rise again. Soon there will be much commotion.
He did not catch more than a glimpse, but a glimpse was all he needed. Such an ugly shape the limbs made, the neck contorted. The thing hardly looked human at all.
Review: A Mystery at the Incredible Hotel
I received this book from Edelweiss/the publisher in exchange of an honest review.
Weekly Quote for Week-20 2024 ~ The Maid by Nita Prose
“It’s easier than you’d ever think—existing in plain sight while remaining largely invisible. That’s what I’ve learned from being a maid. You can be so important, so crucial to the fabric of things and yet be entirely overlooked. It’s a truth that applies to maids, and to others as well, so it seems. It’s a truth that cuts close to the bone.”
Cover Lover Saturday ~ A Mystery at the Incredible Hotel by Kate Davies, Isabelle Follath
Review for The Spaces in Between
The second book in the series, will our family be able to get out? Or will they be stuck forever?
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Teaser Tuesday ~ Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor
I flipped through the book and landed on page 193!
No one paid me any attention when I dipped behind it and grabbed the gold paste, slipping it down my pocket. When I glanced up, Zosa looked right at me.
I froze.
Seconds passed. She took a step in my direction. Her pink lips moved, like she was speaking my name, but she was too far away to hear clearly. My throat closed up at the thought that she still knew me somehow, that there was a chance I wasn’t forgotten like I’d assumed.
Zosa was too thin. Her dark eyes shone like drops of oil. A tear dripped down my cheek, and I couldn’t look away. It took everything inside me not to run to her.