The excerpt I have chosen from my book, Revolver, I took from the very first page in the first chapter and for good reason. It reads, "Sig looked across the cabin to where his father lay, waiting for him to speak, but his father said nothing, because he was dead. Einar Andersson lay on the table, his arms half raised above his head, his legs slightly bent at the knee, frozen in the position in which they’d found him; out on the lake, lying on the ice, with the dogs waiting patiently in harness." I chose this part of the book to get the reader hooked because when I read it I had to read it multiple times just to see if I was understanding what it said. How many books do you pick up and start reading and the third sentence in the book has the main character sitting across a table from his frozen dad? This particular section defiantly made me want to delve deeper into the book, I had to find out what happened to cause this scenario sprung on me so early on. I think it would do the same for any reader that picked up the book so I would say the author wrote a pretty good hook for the beginning of Revolver.
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