Monday, June 6, 2011

Sentence Sneak Peek - Starcrossed

Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini

The first sentence from each chapter of Starcrossed, it's a mini summary of what you can expect to read.

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* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)

"But if you bough me a car now, it would be yours when I go away to school in two years."

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Still without her own car, Helen had to ride her bike to school the next morning."

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In the morning when Helen woke up and looked at her feet, the cuts were gone."

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Helen sat in a bathtub of cold water, the lights in the bathroom switched off, and listened to the phone ring over and over."

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The next week at school was nothing short of torture."

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It was nighttime in the dry lands."

"Because I didn't want to wake up Lucas!"

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Helen spent the next few hours alternately listening to the details of her father's trip and insisting that Lucas was not her boyfriend."

"Keep sticking your chin out like that and I'll knock it off for you," Hector yelled."
"MAJORCA, SPAIN
Creon watched the reporter for five minutes before he decided to uncloak himself from the shadows."

"Helen rode her bike to school the next morning, giving her dad instructions to tell Lucas that she had a few things to do before homeroom."

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Helen heard something up on the roof."

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Swathed in black shadows, Creon crouched outside Helen's house, his eyes glued to her bedroom window."

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Just before dawn, Lucas touched her face to wake her up."

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The meadow went on and on and on—endlessly."

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At around eight o'clock in the morning, Lucas finally accepted the fact that he had run out of time."

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Creon stood along the side of the compound, entirely cloaked in shadows, and waited until his cousins sped off in their black SUV before he ran after them. "

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Waiting in the shadows outside the Hamilton house was a long shot, but Creon had no other choice."

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Helen stared at the glass of water in front of her as it sweated condensed moisture onto the kitchen table."

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