These are my favorite first sentences of recent books. What is yours? As always, these all have individual reviews on my blog if you’d like to learn more.
“Death has a way of leaving breadcrumbs, little particles of the past that catch and settle and stain.” -A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
“His house loomed brightly in the distance, like a lighthouse in a sea of headstones.”
– Love and Gelato by Jenn Evans Welch
“They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart.” – The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
“I wonder what kind of sound it would make if I were to smash this glass against the side of his head.” – Colleen Hoover in November 9
“My mother told me once that being an Olivia meant measuring our lives in lengths of red thread.” – Anna Marie McLemore in “Dark and Deepest Red.”
“There’s something about lounging in a bath of blood that makes me want to stay until my fingers shrivel enough to show the outlines of my bones.” -Blood like Magic by Liselle Sambury
Cassie Swindon 