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Third Sentence Thursday is a nifty little weekly meme hosted by Sniffly Kitty's Mostly Books.
1) Take the book you are reading now and post the third sentence
2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)
3) Post a link to your sentence here or if you don't have a blog, just post it in the comments!
Dearly, Departed
By Lia Habel
Publisher: Del Rey
Publish Date: October 18, 2011
Format: Hardback, pp 496
Age Demographic: Young Adult
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"When the elevator groaned to a stop in the middle of the rocky shaft, I knew I was buried alive. Trapped thousands of feet below the earth's surface and hundreds above the bottom of the shaft, dangling in a dimly lit ten-by-ten-foot cage over the black bowels of the very mine I had been so bloody relieved to get work in." (pp ;; 03)
Love can never die.
Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?
The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune, and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses.
But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead—and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.
In Dearly, Departed, steampunk meets romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.
*Summary taken from Goodreads.
Seriously, I about peed my pants UPS dropped this baby off on my front porch. OMFG! I've been LITERALLY DYING to read this! And I'm totally excited, like I'm in love with the very first sentence, "I was buried alive." Not only that, but it's pretty much this awesome steampunk romance meets zombies and it all takes place in New Victoria in 2195.
Translation: I CANNOT WAIT TO READ THIS!
{Small Note: This ARC was received through Del Ray, in exchange for an honest review which I will provide. No money has exchanged hands, I review books for fun because I love to read. I am not interested in monetary gain.}
