“When I opened the bathroom door after my shower, a towel
wrapped around my waist, I saw a short, muscular guy with a shock of brown
hair. He was hauling a gigantic army-green duffel bag through the door of my
room. He stood five feet and nothing, but was well-built, like a scale model of
Adonis, and with him arrived the stink of stale cigarette smoke. Great, I thought. I’m meeting my roommate naked. He heaved the duffel into the room,
closed the door, and walked over to me."
“I’m Chip Martin,” he announced in a deep voice, the voice of
a radio deejay. Before I could respond, he added, “I’d shake your hand, but I think
you should hold on d**n tight to that towel till you can get some clothes on.”
This section of the book, on page 9, is what could help hook potential readers. This part of the book got me hooked and caught my attention because it is funny. It is about a new boy at school meeting his new roommate almost naked and this makes me laugh and it tells me and other readers that these characters are going to be interesting. This section of the story is also an eye grabber because it is more towards the beginning of the book and personally, it helped me get more focused on the story because if the beginning of the story was boring, I probably would have thought about changing books. So luckily, within the first 9 pages of the story, I was able to pay attention to who the characters were and how the story will go.
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