#FirstLinesFriday: 13 October 2023

It’s a little spicy, friends! 😂

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:

“If I have to hear that laugh one more time, I’m going to head up there, kick her door in, and… I don’t know. Something tough and mean. Something she’ll remember for a very long time. The fact that I can’t come up with anything besides shoving her against the door and putting my mouth to her is just a testament to how tired I am.”

Do you recognise the book these first lines come from?

drumroll please!

We’ll Never Have Paris by Adriana Anders

Jules aka “World’s most annoying laugher”
It’s Christmas Eve, one of my last nights in Paris, and I get stuck in a tiny elevator with the insufferable, grumpy Welshman from downstairs.

📖 KEEP READING…

I’m wearing nothing but my skimpy PJs and totally inappropriate spike heels. Oh, and the light’s gone out. What could possibly go wrong?

Colin aka “Ebenezer McGrumpypants”
She’s the neighbor from hell. Loud, brash, and American, with the body of a pin-up and the laugh of a wild hyena. My only wish is that she’ll move out and be done with Paris forever. Fate, apparently, has other ideas because tonight of all nights, when the city’s shut down and half the population’s gone, who should I get stuck with in what has to be Paris’s tiniest lift? You guessed it. Her.

Only, now that we’ve gotten up close and personal, everything’s changed. Suddenly, the problem isn’t getting rid of her anymore. It’s finding a way to keep her…forever.