Third Sentence Thursday/ Murphy's Library Contest Note

From Sniffly Kitty's Mostly Books

I'm starting up a new meme (hopefully it will catch on and become a meme anyway heh). The title was inspire by a post on Scalzi's Whatever Blog in which someone claims the third sentence in The God Engines is the worst ever. I thought it would be amusing to review third sentences in general and maybe some other fun things with third sentences.

So, this is how it will work this week:


1) Take the book you are reading now and post the third sentence
2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)
3) Post a link to your review at Sniffly Kitty's Mostly Books, or if you don't have a blog, just post it in the comments!
4) Prepare for next week:  Pick the funniest third sentence. 

 

Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, Book 1)

Well, HMMMM I am currently reading Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost.  The third sentence, technically, is "Hi." Not much to review there.

Expand it and it's "Hi. Something Wrong?" Which still doesn't give me much to go on.
Add the next and you have,
"Hi. Something wrong?" My tone was all innocence while I prayed there was nothing unusual about my eyes."
Finally! Something to work with.

In  this well written book the expanded third sentence really does give us a lot of hints about the book. This book is the first in a series (Night Huntress) so there is not to much we know about the characters or story line.

One, you know that someone has probably stopped her in some way. She could, of course, just be walking down the hall, but in the context of the surrounding sentences we realize she has been pulled over.

Since she makes a point of her tone being all innocence we know she is acting and that she is certainly not innocent. Right away you are going to wonder what she has done.
And, right away, because we are familiar with the genre, we suspect that she is not entirely human because  she, "...prayed there was nothing unusual about [her] eyes."
She could be were, vampire, dhampyre, whatever, because we don't know what they are doing. But, she is worried it will give something away, and a physical malady like being cross-eyed, or red from crying,  wouldn't really bear mention.

I am enjoying this book a lot and may have a review for it today or tomorrow.

Thanks Sniffly for hosting such a fun meme!!!!   Come by here on Sundays to play Supernatural Summaries!




Quick note about an exciting new contest at Murphy's Library. We who blog are always looking for ways to find out what the readers are thinking. Murphy's has figured out a new way. Check it out! http://www.murphyslibrary.com/?p=1600 So, if you read here you may have noted that I don't usually write up a contest in a post.  But this looks like such a fun idea that I decided to talk to you about it.  :-)