Paragraphs

"I'd never given much thought to how I would die - though I'd had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me."

This  first paragraph from the preface in twilight is effective because it draws the readers in and they instantly want to know more about what she is saying so they continue to read to find out more. Some situations I have been in where the topic sentence should not be at the beginning of the paragraph was when I wrote an persuasive paper. I thought it was better to put a sentence that would draw the reader in rather than giving the topic sentence first hand.