Yayaya, HAPPY FRIYAY, book lovers and friends 😍We’re back with another First Lines Friday! This is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Here are THE RULES:
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First lines:
This is how it begins.
You wake to sunlight whispering through the trees just outside the window. It’s a faint light, weak and gray at the edges. Dawn still shedding the skin of night. Yet it’s bright enough to make you roll over and face the wall, the mattress creaking beneath you. Within that roll is a moment of disorientation, a split second when you don’t know where you are. It happens sometimes after a deep, dreamless slumber. A temporary amnesia. You see the fine grains of the pine-plank wall, smell the traces of campfire smoke in your hair, and know exactly where you are.
Camp Nightingale.
Do you recognize the book these first lines come from?
Okay, okay, calm yourself Loki, mate...
*drumroll please!*
The book is: Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
Have you ever played two truths and a lie?
Emma has. Her first summer away from home, she learned how to play the game. And she learned how to lie.
Then three of her new friends went into the woods and never returned…
Now, years later, Emma has been asked to go back to the newly re-opened Camp Nightingale. She thinks she’s laying old ghosts to rest but really she’s returning to the scene of a crime.
Because Emma’s innocence might be the biggest lie of all…
Have you read The Last Time I Lied or is it on your TBR?
Leave me a comment and let’s chat 🙂
dinipandareads 
omg I would have never guessed Riley Sager. Lock Every Door is very high on my TBR since watching some reviews of it. The POV sounds interesting. Great choice for this week’s FLF. 🙂
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YAAS! I just finished this book today and OMG it was SO GOOD! I want to read Lock Every Door too but I’m scared it’ll be too spooky for me 😂I would defo recommend this one though! It was so good. Love Sager’s twisty-ness lol
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I have never heard of this but it does catch my attention!
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I just finished it today and would defo recommend it if you’re looking for a thriller/mystery! I’m not usually a fan of unreliable narrators but damn, I didn’t even mind and it was so good! 😍
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Oooh, this book sounds really interesting! I wonder, is the whole thing written in second person? Or is it just the opening? That’s unique enough where it really grabbed my attention right off the bat.
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SAMMIE, it’s SO GOOD! I just finished it today and I’m shook with those ending twists. Ugh, it’s official–I love Sager! It’s not all written like this, it’s only special moments in the book but it’s done well. Would defo recommend!!! 😍
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*jams the book onto my already crowded TBR* I’ll have to check on Thursday if my library has this in. :3
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I *loved* The Last Time I Lied, so I do hope you are enjoying it as well! I’ve been a fan of Riley Sager ever since I read Final Girls by him, but The Last Time I Lied is my favorite by him, closely followed by Lock Every Door. There’s just something about his characters that captivate me and draw me in – I’ve read loads of thrillers but these feel superior to most of them. 🙂
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I just finished reading it and WOW! Even though I’m sad that I missed the group discussion because I’m so bad at keeping with time, I’m glad that I picked it up and read it anyway. The twists!! Sager really loves all those ending twists that leave me shakin 😂Defo can’t wait to read more of him! I loved Final Girls but I think I love this one more…
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