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:
“I have five rules for planning a successful wedding.
(Lies. I’m sure there are more, but if I said, “I have seventy-six rules—sit back,” I think I would have lost you.)”
Do you recognise the book these first lines come from?
*drumroll please!*
Forget Me Not by Julie Soto
An ambitious wedding planner must work with her grumpy florist ex, whose heart she broke, on the most high-profile wedding of her career, in this spicy and emotional romance from popular fanfic author Julie Soto.
He loves me; he loves me not…
📖 SYNOPSIS
Ama Torres loves being a wedding planner. But with a mother who has been married more times than you can count on your fingers, Ama has decided that marriage is not the route for her. But weddings? Weddings are amazing. As a small business owner, she knows how to match her clients with the perfect vendor to give them the wedding of their dreams. Well, almost perfect…
Elliot hates being a florist, most of the time. When his father left him the flower shop, he considered it a burden, but he’s stuck with it. Just like how he’s stuck with the way he proposed to Ama, his main collaborator and girlfriend (or was she?) two years ago. But flowers have grown on him, just like Ama did. And flowers can’t run off and never speak to him again, like Ama did.
When Ama is hired to plan a celebrity wedding that will bring her business national exposure, there’s a catch: Elliot is already contracted to design the flowers. Things are not helped by the two brides, who see the obvious chemistry between Ama and Elliot and are determined to set them up, not knowing their complicated history. Add in a meddling ex-boss, and a reality TV film crew documenting every step of the wedding prep, and Ama and Elliot’s hearts are not only in jeopardy again, but this time, their livelihoods are too.
Have you read Forget Me Not or is it on your TBR?
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This book looks SO good, just added it to my TBR. It’s not something I would normally pick up but I think I’d enjoy it. Great post!
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I’ve heard a lot of good things about it and it looks gorgeous too. I hope you enjoy it if you do pick it up 😃
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That’s a funny line and gives me such a feel for who the character is
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Yesss, I love that it already gives me a good idea of what the FMC will be like. I’m excited to pick it up 🙂
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hahaha – great first lines! I enjoyed this book, and that cover is so gorgeous!
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it and I totally agree about the cover! I’ve heard a lot of positive things about this one and I hope to read it this month (hopefully, hopefully)! I’m excited 🙂
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It sounds so cute! I haven’t been reading a lot of romance lately… But I’ll probably add this one to my TBR list just in case.
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