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:
“Obviously a two-hundred-pound Victorian writing desk wasn’t made to be moved all by yourself. But it also hadn’t come with those incomprehensible IKEA instructions showing a blocky illustrated guy getting help from a buddy, so. There wasn’t anything saying not to try it.”
Do you recognise the book these first lines come from?
*drumroll please!*
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn’t exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she’s used to suspecting the worst.
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PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She’s even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It’s hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn’t had a relationship with for years.
It doesn’t help that she’s low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he’s clearly up to something). It’s not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier—a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart.
Have you read Love in the Time of Serial Killers or is it on your TBR?
dinipandareads 
Okay that first line is a banger LOL
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Right? I can’t wait to read it 😂
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I thought I did but I did not. 😂 I do like the first lines!
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Haha, it’s an intriguing and very relatable first line 😂
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I knew this one! I’ve just been approved for it on NG and Im so excited to read it. Fingers crossed we both love it 😊
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Ooh, YAY! I hope you love it, Becky! 😍
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This one is definitely on my list. I borrowed it from my library for the cover and the title lol. That first line was pretty great 😀
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Right? This title is what definitely caught my attention first. I can’t wait to dive in 😃
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This is the first time I ever knew the line. I loved this book
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I can’t wait to dive into it!
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A very interesting first line, Dini. I haven’t read this one, but will watch for your review. I am adding books to my library list everyday! I hope you love this one.
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