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:
“Benny Imura couldn’t hold a job, so he took to killing.”
Do you recognize the book these first lines come from?
*drumroll please!*
The book is: Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin #1) by Jonathan Maberry
In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn’t want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.
Have you read Skyward or is it on your TBR?
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that cover is something else! haha
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Haha I legit hate that cover 😂But I can’t find a different cover for it so I’m stuck with it. I’ve been reading the Webtoon though and I’m LOVING it 😍
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That is one explosive first line!!!
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No. Don’t like it. That cover even gives me chills lmao! 😂😂😂😂
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LMAO girl I KNOW SAME. What business do I have reading horror?! BUT to be fair I didn’t think the cover would be this scary when I started reading the webcomic of this book 😂
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That’s an amusing first line, but that cover looks totally creepy!!
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The first line defo caught my eye but yeah… That cover… That eye 😂
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Uuuh, that’s a very intriguing first line and I have no idea where it’s from 😀 Oh! A zombie book?! I need it! I’m in a very zombie mood right now, we are currently watching season 5 of the Walking Dead. Lol
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I haven’t read this book yet but my interest was piqued when I came across the Webtoon! I’ve been enjoying it so far but there are only four episodes out right now LOL I’m not a big horror girl (zombies freak me the freak out) so I don’t know what I’m doing checking out books like this 😂
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Oh, I haven’t heard of this one! What a bold opener haha!
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Haha right?! I continued reading a bit and it continues to be awesome. I’m looking forward to reading this (I think… I’m a total chicken) Lol
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Now that’s an opening! That cover is really creepy lol
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Lmao I know! I try very hard to not look at it 😂
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