Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Sentence Sneak Peek - The Ultra Violets

The Ultra Violets by Sophie Bell

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

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)
* Book received from the publisher for review

IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY MORNING.

SHE WONDERED IF ANYONE WOULD NOTICE.

WE’LL GET BACK TO IRIS’S PURPLE HAIR, PROMISE.

PICTURE, IF YOU WILL, CUTE PAJAMA PANTS PRINTED with jelly beans and ice-cream cones.”

SCARLET ROLLED HER EYES AND OPAL SHIFTED nervously on top of her sleeping bag.”

WHEN ONE HAS EXPERIENCED THE INTENSE BONDING ritual that is the sleepover...”

THE DAY WAS MONDAY.

FOR THOSE KEEPING TRACK: THERE’S MATH.

OPAL HAD MADE IT THROUGH THE SCHOOL WEEK.

NO, FOR REAL.

AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR:
    Is all this talk about DayGlo vegetables and mustachioed marsupials bringing you down?

THE FOUR GIRLS WERE SEATED IN THE FRONT ROW of the balcony at Thinkin’ Center.”

OH, THOSE FOUR LITTLE WORDS.

CANDACE WAS ASSISTING AT THE FLAB, AS SHE DID most days after school.”

CUE THE DEEP BASS MOVIE TRAILER MAN VOICE:
    “The brains.

CINNAMON GUM IS SPICY, GRAPE JELLY IS SWEET, AND Opaline Trudeau is bitter because she’s violet on the inside only.”

CINNAMON GUM IS SPICY, GRAPE JELLY IS SWEET, AND Iris Tyler is violet all over, inside and out.”

IN THE SPOTLIGHT OF A STREETLAMP, THREE BEEHIVED waitresses gather.”

I SO DESPISE DODGEBALL,CHERI SAID, FLINCHING away from an incoming red rubber bomb.”

FROM @CHERICHERI: NOTHINGZ CUTER ON A BRAINEE math captain than cool comfy cotton tees.”

SO THIS IS WHEN IT GOES DOWN.

OPAL,” IRIS SAID, HER COLOR SENSE TINGLING, “WHAT are you doing here?”

NO, IT’S NOT OVER.

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