Happy Friday book lovers! We’re back with another First Lines Friday, a weekly feature for book lovers hosted byΒ Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged itΒ 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 donβt give anything else about the book away just yet β you need to hook the reader first
- Finally⦠reveal the book!
First lines:
“The farmer is dead, he is dead and all anyone wants to know is who killed him. Was it an accident or was it murder? It looks like murder, they say, with that gunshot wound to the heart, so precise, it must have been intended.”
Do you recognize the book these first lines come from?
*drumroll please!*
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
βThe farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.β
π SYNOPSIS
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Bethβs brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesnβt realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenagerβthe man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.
As Beth is pulled back into Gabrielβs life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.
A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
I have to admit, this one is slightly out of my comfort zone because I loathe love triangles. Sometimes I think to myself “what have you done?” but the hype really got me good, so I had to give it a go. It’s still on my TBR though! π«£ Have you read Broken Country or is it on your TBR too?
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