Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you’re reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence. (Thanks to Rose City Reader for inspiring this meme)
ALEX’s BOOK:
My line(s) come from a new book by author Walter Davis called A Reasonable Person (AuthorHouse, 2010):
On a typical day twenty-five to thirty motor vehicle accidents will occur in the State of Hawaii.
Okay. That’s an interesting statistic. Is that even true? That seems somewhat high, but I’m assuming any form of “bumping” would be considered an “accident.” Then again, people do complain these days about the driving of people here. If anything, there’s just way too many cars on the road.
Most will be fender benders but there will be at least five or six serious injuries and a better than fifty percent chance of one death. Many will sue for whiplash type injuries.
This is the end of the prologue’s first paragraph. If you haven’t figured it out by now, this is a book centered around legal proceedings with the main character being a lawyer. I’m feeling like there’s going to be some kind of relation to this introduction and a major lawsuit. Either that, or there will be some focus on a lawsuit, either way. It’s not the most gripping opening line, but we’ll see how the rest of the book relates to it. So far, the few pages I’ve read have been rather interesting. I’ll let you know soon!
MISTY’s BOOK:
Nothing this week! 🙂
Let us know what new books you’ve started this past week (or two since we didn’t have one last week) and give us the first lines and your thoughts. Mahalo everyone and have a great weekend!
