First Line Friday
Engaged in Trouble
It’s FRIDAY which means I get to share a great line once a week with your from a book I am reading. I found this to be an exciting and entertaining way to find new authors, books and bloggers. So I am opening up the book I have been reading this week, and going to the first chapter and finding the first line…
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This week's line is:
“They say home is where the heart is. I say home is where my cheating ex-fiance is, so I really hadn’t ever planned on making a move anywhere near the same time zone as Evan Holbrook. ”
This is a delightful first in a new series, and trust me this author sure can make a reader laugh! Hop over to the review for your chance to win 1 of 3 e-copies of Engaged in Trouble.
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Lol! I love that first line.
I’m featuring a new release by Bethany Kaczmarek on my blog this week, but I’m going to post the first line from a book I’ve been meaning to read for aaaaaages: To Whisper Her Name, by Tamera Alexander.
“First Lieutenant Ridley Adam Cooper peered through the stand of bristled pines, his presence cloaked by dusk, his Winchester cocked and ready.”
My first line is from Sweet Delights by Cecelia Dowdy: “PATTY-LYNN?” THE FAMILIAR VOICE made her pause.
Oh man! Sounds amazing. I love the cover. Adding this to my TBR pile.
I’m sharing a first line from The Red Door Inn by Liz Johnson. “The change in Marie Carrington’s pocket wouldn’t pay for a ferry ride across the Northumberland Strait to Prince Edward Island, let alone a bus ticket to anywhere else in the world.”
Prologue
January 25, 1980, midnight
The first execution I attended wasn’t by lethal injection but by Old Sparky. ~A Twist of the Knife by Becky Masterman
Happy Reading!
Dinh @ Arlene’s Book Club
Love the first line and I love the cover! I wanted to ask you about another book you featured on your blog…The Detecting Duchess. That looks like a great series…do you need to read the books in order? I was going to pick up The Detecting Duchess, but I wanted to double-check first. Thanks!
Happy Friday! Have a nice weekend
great page, great blog… don’t have a book near me at the moment…happy week end.
I’ve read some great reviews for that book!
This is a very “English teacher” first line today. Sorry! 🙂 The book closest to me is Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee–(the author of my very favorite ever novel To Kill a Mockingbird): “In an opinion column published by Alabama newspapers in July 1992, I paid tribute to the remarkable Lee family of Monroeville, especially Harper.”
That book sounds interesting, I’m going to enter the giveaway in just a bit.
My first line is from Gabrielle Meyer’s novella found in the Of Rags and Riches Romance Collection
“A Tale of Two Hearts” Little Falls, Minnesota May 20, 1899
The countryside sped by as Elijah Boyer pushed the Duryea Motor Wagon to twenty-five miles per hour.
Intriguing! Because is home supposed to give warm fuzzies? LOL
I’m reading The Lady of Bolton Hill by Elizabeth Camden. “Come on, boy. Your dad needs you.”
April, I would agree that home should be happy but it gets there trust me!
That is a fun looking cover and interesting first line.
This book is a hoot! Think Stephanie Plum style of funny female character.
This just draws the reader in! I need to read this one so badly!
Just got done reading this book in one sit in.
Captive (The Submerged Sun #1)
Fans of the “Shatter Me” series by
Mafi, Tahereh with the similarities between the love triangles.
First line:
“He must have watched me from a safe distance, like a crocodile observing its prey, his eyes hovering above the dark, silver tinted water.