Sentence Sneak Peek - Ever After High: The Unfairest of Them All

Ever After High: The Unfairest of Them All by Shannon Hale

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

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)

“IF THE EVIL QUEEN HAD ONE WORD TO describe her living conditions, it would be cramped.”

“MORNING ONCE-UPONED ALL OVER EVER AFTER.”

“RAVEN LAID HER HEAD ON THE DESK AND tried to ignore the hole inside her gaping with the uncertain future.”

“Hey, Narrator!”

“OLD KING COLE WAS EVERY BIT THE MERRY old soul Apple was expecting.”

“THE MORNING WAS DIM, WOLF-GRAY CLOUDS pouncing on the sun.”

“Narrator?”

“APPLE WALKED AWAY FROM HER MOST recent castle while scrolling through the Yester Day app.”

“BANISH HER!”

“APPLE!”

“NARRATOR!”

“RAVEN GLARED.”

“THE NEXT MORNING, TALKING FROGS AWOKE the school.”

“APPLE LED RAVEN TO A DORM ROOM WITH a hand-lettered sign on the door identifying it as the home of DUMP-T STUDIOS.”

“WILLOW TREE

AND WHISPERS THREE

TOGETHER MAKE A TASTY TEA

IN FORESTS THEY DO GLOW

WHENCE WE DO NOT KNOW

BUT IN THE TEAPOT THEY WILL GO

APPPLE READ THE FIRST RIDDLE ALOUD over and over as she and Raven left the school, crossed the Troll Bridge, and entered the Village of Book End.”

“MADDIE SAT ALONE IN THE TEA SHOP kitchen, feeding tiny pieces of cheese to her dormouse, Earl Grey.”

“THE CROWN OF TERROR PAST

THE SHELL INSIDE STILL LASTS

THE ITEM YOU SEEK, A TOY OF THE WEAK

MAJESTY DOWNED, RUN AGROUND IN TOWN

TO ECHO NOW NAUGHT BUT HAPPY SOUNDS

RAVEN WALKED ALL OVER BOOK END.”

“BIG TO THE SMALL

IT GROWS ON ALL

SMALL TO THE BIG

ONE THREAD OF A WIG

UNWANTED AND PLUCKED

IT DROPS IN THE MUCK

THE BEANSTALK WAS A COLOR OF GREEN that made Apple wish for sunglasses, so green it almost sparkled.”

“SEEK THE SPAWN OF THE PAWN

OF THE CRONE OF BONES

THAT COTTAGE OF DOOM

THE ROOM NOT A ROOM

THE BEAST NOT A BEAST

THAT MOVES SOUTH AND WEST AND NORTH AND EAST

SEARCH IN NEST, COOP, OR DEN

OF THE COBBLED TRUSSED HEN

RAVEN WAS CATAPULTING THROUGH THE AIR.”

“APPLE TRUDGED THROUGH THE DOOR OF their dorm room, dropped something long and stick-like on the floor, edged around the dragon skull, and flopped onto her bed.”

“THERE WERE NO WINDOWS IN THE Treasury, but the great gaping hole in the wall let in dawn’s light.”

“RAVEN’S FINGERTIPS WERE BLISTERED, HER shoulder ached, and her throat was as dry as Milton Grimm’s attempts at jokes.”

“Narrator!”

“APPLE KEPT CLINGING TO THE HUTLING.”

“NESTLED BETWEEN THE EPIC PEAKS, the jabberwocky flexed its wings.”