Happy Friday book lovers! We’re back with another First Lines Friday, 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:
“Don’t look down, I told myself. If you look down, you’re friggin’ screwed.
There I was, hanging from a second floor window of St Ambrose Hall in a denim miniskirt and my motorcycle boots.”

Do you recognize the book these first lines come from?







*drumroll please!*


Hilarious, bold, sparky and surprising, this is the funniest feminist book you’ll read all year.
Alex is a rebel from the tip of her purple fauxhawk to the toes of her biker boots. She’s tried everything she can think of to get expelled from her strict Catholic boarding school. Nothing has worked so far – but now, Alex has a new plan.
Tired of the sexism she sees in every corner of St Mary’s, Alex decides to stage the school’s first ever production of The Vagina Monologues. Which is going to be a challenge, as no one else at St Mary’s can even bear to say the word ‘vagina’ out loud…
I’ll be picking up Bad Habits for an upcoming blog tour very soon and I can’t wait. This sounds like it’s going to be a hilarious read and I’m looking forward to diving into the story.

Have you read Bad Habits or it on your TBR?

I got a bit of dejavu here because I read someone else’s first line Friday for the same book! A lot of people seem to be reading it at the moment!
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Ooh, really?! I haven’t seen anyone talking about or reading this on my blog or twitter feeds so that’s news to me 😂 I haven’t been online much though so that’s probably why I have no clue what’s going on haha
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Haha yes! I haven’t picked it up but I see it a lot, it’s hard to miss that lovely vibrant cover!
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Okay, not gonna lie, that opening grabbed my attention, and that is NOT AT ALL the book I expected. Welp, I’ve got this read coming up, and now I’m all the more excited about it. Looks like I might really enjoy this one. xD
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That’s a fun opening line, makes me curious about the rest of the book haha. Thanks for sharing, Dini!
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This sounds interesting! 🤩
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