Sentence Sneak Peek - Perception

Perception by Kim Harrington

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

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)
* Book will be released March 1, 2012
* ARC read via Around The World ARC Tours

"I STEPPED FORWARD WITH FORCED CONFIDENCE."

"I JUMPED WHEN MY BAGEL POPPED UP FROM THE toaster."

"WHO?"

"TIFFANY WAS A DRAMA QUEEN, SO LOUD SQUEALS and other attention-getting techniques weren't unusual for her."

"I DEFTLY AVOIDED MALLORY'S QUESTION AND MY conflicted feelings on the topic by claiming to have to hurry home."

"THE FIRST PERSON I SAW AT SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY was not Justin, but Cody Rowe."

"MY KNEES WENT WEAK, AND I SHOT A HAND OUT to brace myself against a chair."

"YUMMY'S IS THE MOST WIDELY LOVED RESTAURANT in Eastport."

"MY MOUTH OPENED."

"I HEFTED THE LAST SHOPPING BAG FROM THE trunk, carried it into the house, and dropped it on the floor."

"THE SHADOW CAME CLOSER AND FORMED A FAMILIAR frame."

"EW!"

"GABRIEL OFFERED ME A RIDE TO SCHOOL AGAIN Monday morning, and that might have been the reason I wore my tight, nice-ass jeans rather than the slightly baggy com-fortable ones I preferred."

"THE LITTLE HAIRS ON THE BACK OF MY NECK prickled."

"I AVOIDED EVERYONE THE REST OF THE DAY."

"I WAS DISAPPOINTED WITH WHAT LITTLE I GOT from the vision."

"I OPENED MY EYES."

"THURSDAY PASSED IN A HAZE OF CLASSES, AND THAT afternoon I sat in the kitchen."

"I STOOD AT MY LOCKER, PULLING OUT BOOKS AND watching the stream of kids go by."

"MOM NEARLY FELL OVER WHEN I TOLD HER I WAS going to a party."

"I ALLOWED THE STRONG, WARM HAND TO LEAD ME out of the dark chaos inside Kendra's house and into the sur-prisingly bright night outside."

"IT WAS SUNDAY, LATE MORNING, AND MOM WAS flitting around the kitchen, making a racket."

"I LEFT SCHOOL IN A ROTTEN MOOD."

"NOTHING PUTS YOUR PROBLEMS IN PERSPECTIVE like death."

"MOM DRUMMED THE STEERING WHEEL NERVOUSLY while she waited for me to settle in."

"I STRAINED TO TURN MY HEAD AND FACE MY attacker."

"SHH!"

"I SPENT MOST OF MY ENERGY THURSDAY TRYING not to think."

"THE BONFIRE WAS TOO HOT TO STAND TOO CLOSE, but I'd slowly built up a tolerance to the heat, so if I backed away from it, the night air seemed too cold."

"THERE WAS NO SECRET ADMIRER."

"KENDRA WAS ON GABRIEL LIKE A PREDATOR ON A slab of meat."

"THE SONG ENDED AND GABRIEL DROPPED HIS HANDS from my body."

"OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE, I SAW GABRIEL approaching."

"THE FIRST SENSE THAT RETURNED WAS TOUCH, I was surprisingly comfortable."

"WHILE WE WERE STILL IN DARKNESS, MY MIND struggled for a plan."

"TWO DAYS AFTER I FOUGHT OFF A CRAZED KILLER and saved the life of my mortal enemy, I lay on the couch, my ankle propped up on pillows."