First Lines Fridays is 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?
- 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!
“He arrives at night, in the middle of a downpour, the type of conditions more suitable for a disappearance. I was alone in the lobby – removing the hand-carved walking sticks from the barrel beside the registration desk, replacing them with our stash of navy umbrellas – when someone pushed through one of the double doors at the entrance. The sound of rain cascading over the gutters; the rustle of hiking pants; the screech of wet boots on polished floors.”
Amy Leigh Reads 