The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it..
Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or so of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.
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LIGHT A CANDLE FOR THE BEAST by Echo Shea
This novella has a very pretty cover, but when I saw the raven I knew there was more to the story than sugar and spice. Because this is so short and it is Friday the 13th, I am including my review..
.Silence casts a pall over the graveyard in the late twilight of evening, row upon row of ancestors resting beneath their marble stones. Thorns cut into my hands as I stand above the few I’ve known, all those I’ve loved – my mother, my father, and both of my sisters..
If you’ve ever been caught in a riptide, pulled down into the water, then you know me. Or, more accurately, what I’m like when I’m angry.
Delia was beautiful, smart, and kind. He wasn’t. He said he loved her, but he didn’t know what love was. He was manipulative and cruel—more than a thief. A beast.
All she wanted was a rose…
These are the words on my sister’s grave. Her sadness, her obsession, forever a reminder I didn’t–couldn’t save her.
I’m not vindictive or cruel. I’m simply as the river–my memory is winding and my reach is long. I watched him steal her beauty, her essence. Watched him become a beast. He thought he’d get away with it, thought he’d go free.
I lay a rose upon my sister’s grave.
Light a candle for the beast.
5 Stars
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