SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

In every book, there's at least one - a visual image moment when the writer creates such a vivid image that it pulls me through a vortex and spits me out in the middle of the setting.

As you read through your books, add your VIM's to this thread ....

Here's my first one:
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
"The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterwards on the dresser and curtains."

Remember to include the author and the book.

Gabi

"The house was wedged in a flowering of branches as if it had lodged there during a storm." Red Riding Hood

"Misting rain sparkled in the spotlights, drifting like a gossamer sheet across the length of the courtyard."
Coldsleep Lullaby

I've actually seen rain do that!

I loved this line that I recently came across in a strange but excellent sci fi novel where a quantum explosion makes a human being 600-feet tall:

"In fact, the whole planet was one big tart, its surface as tender as a pie crust and its filling hot and red as baked cherries." - Enormity by W.G. Marshall

Lauren wrote: "I loved this line that I recently came across in a strange but excellent sci fi novel where a quantum explosion makes a human being 600-feet tall:

"In fact, the whole planet was one big tart, its ..."

I can taste the planet!

"First day I walk in the door, there she be, red-hot and hollering with the colic, fighting that bottle like it's a rotten turnip."

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