Sentence Sneak Peek - Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends

Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends by Shannon Hale

The first sentence from each chapter of Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends, it's a mini summary of what you can expect to read.

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)

“THE GREAT HALL OF EVER AFTER HIGH smelled like floor wax and old stone mixed with the tangy musk of magic.”

“ONCE UPON A NEW SCHOOL YEAR, RAVEN Queen was packing.”

“APPLE WHITE OPENED THE PINK SILK curtains even wider to let in all that buttery sunshine.”

“RAVEN HUGGED HER FATHER ONE LAST time, stepped into a Travel Mirror in the front room, and fell out of a Travel Mirror on a high balcony of Ever After High.”

“AND SO OUR CHARACTERS’ LEGACY YEAR at Ever After High began.”

“RAVEN TOOK HER TRAY TO THE LAST TABLE in the Castleteria, her back to one of the trees that grew from the floor to the skylights six stories up.”

“RAVEN WAS AN ODD GIRL.”

“NO MAGIC, NO MAGIC, RAVEN REMINDED herself over and over as she rushed from her dorm room out of the castle.”

“FOR THE FIRST DAMSEL-IN-DISTRESSING class, Apple and the other princesses met in the back meadow, where four-story practice towers awaited.”

“WHENEVER RAVEN THOUGHT ABOUT Legacy Day, she felt sick to her stomach.”

“THERE WERE MIRRORS EVERYWHERE IN Ever After High.”

“RAVEN WANDERED OUT ONTO THE EMPTY terrace, so full of thoughts she could barely stand straight.”

“Hey, Narrator!”

“WHILE THEY WALKED BACK TO THE school, Apple worked on her MirrorPhone, downloading the Ever After High building specs.”

“SEVERAL DAYS LATER, APPLE STILL FELT covered in the dust and spidery feeling of the dungeon level.”

“THE ENCHANTED FOREST HAD BECOME THE most popular hangout at Ever After High.”

“YOU’VE BEEN ACTING BRANSWISHED lately,” said Briar, trying on a pair of punch-pink heels at the Glass Slipper.”

“THE MORNING OF THE BEAUTY SLEEP Festival dawned as bright as leprechaun gold.”

“NIGHT ONCE-UPONED ALL AROUND THEM, and still they walked.”

“Narrator?”

“SO WHEN BRIAR GOT ME UP ON THE GREAT Beanstalk,” Apple was saying, “and gave me a push, I literally thought I would die.”

“THE IMAGES CAME FAST AND ANGRY, LIKE A swarm of wasps stinging.”

“MADDIE HAD TAKEN RAVEN TO THE VAULT of Lost Tales once before—a labyrinth under the library inhabited by dusty books and an odd man who spoke only Riddlish.”

“LEGACY DAY DAWNED WEAK AS WATERY porridge.”

“AFTER RAVEN LEFT THEIR ROOM, APPLE stood alone at the window, waiting.”

“RAVEN PLODDED UP THE PEDESTAL’S STAIRS.”

“RAVEN TORE OUT HER PAGE WITH A SOUND of all hope and light vanishing.”

“RAVEN WAS ENJOYING THE SILENCE.”

“Narrator?”

“I’VE GOT IT!”

“SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT SHE’S DOING,” Milton Grimm muttered as he fled the ruined Legacy Day ceremony.”