What was a book that hooked you right from the first chapter?

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[Amelia]

The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

[MJ Codename: ♕Duchess♕]

A Court of Thorns and Roses.

[Saga]

A court of thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas and Roar by Cora Carmack

[Hollybooks]

My lady Jane, it was hilarious!

[Ninosy]

Vicious by Victoria Schwab
Legend by Marie Lu and Redeeming love I'm currently reading it...

[Aria]

the clockwork angel!!

[Hollybooks]

Yeah, the clockwork angel had got to be one too!

[Sumit]

I would say The Persepolis. A simple story told powerfully and the graphic novel format added a new dimension to the story..

[Doreen]

The Cruel Prince!

and....Throne of Glass (book1) and Poison Study!

[☾ Liz ☆ Stellar Kitten Book Reviews ☆]

This Savage Song because how can you not be instantly hooked when the main character starts off by setting a church on fire lol

[Doreen]

Liz (Stellar Kitten Book Reviews) wrote: " This Savage Song because how can you not be instantly hooked when the main character starts off by setting a church on fire lol"

THIS duology was sooo GOOD!

[*Sophie*]

One Of Us Is Lying- definitely had me hooked

[Arthur]

*Sophie* wrote: "One Of Us Is Lying- definitely had me hooked"

YES

[Morgann]

Vampire Academy or A court of thorns and roses

[Cendaquenta]

Jane Eyre, Every Heart a Doorway, The Bear and the Nightingale, Sing, Unburied, Sing.

[morgan]

just because i’m currently rereading it… i have to go with the last magician by Lisa Maxwell! it’s so beautiful and well written and the beginning absolutely had me hooked and it has me hooked all over again!

[Sarah]

We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach (which I read years ago and just started to read again. I love it just as much as before). Anything by Matthew Dicks (depending on where you are in the world, his name may be Matthew Green), especially Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

[kate]

Six of crows, the girl with the dragon tattoo, maybe someday - they hooked me up enough to still remember them even if I had read two of those several years ago

[Linda]

I totally agree with you Kat, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series is the best yet, just finished the fifth one.....ever tho the last two are a different author, I still love the continuation of Lizbeth Salander!

[maria]

Six of Crows

soc all the way. that first chapter was so, so good.

[Ashly]

[Cornelius]

Honestly can’t remember the first one... but the last one most definitely was the mistborn series... I fell in love with those books in an instant

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Recently? These lovelies:

[Jeff]

I am VERY picky and, honestly, I haven't had books grasp me from the first chapter in a very long time, except for a few of these. One is a sequel that just came out. Anyway, I know a lot of people have commented, but I'm going to say this and I hope you see it stand out:

****READ PEADAR ÓGUÍLINS' THE CALL & THE INVASION******
Grabbed me by the first chapters and didn't let me go until the end of the second book. (It is a duology, so there won't be three. The author, himself as said this).
The Call The Invasion

Had to go back just a little for these:

Gone Girl / The Rains / Until the End of the World / The Girl With All the Gifts: Extended Free Preview

[Kristen]

Lord of the Riiiings. You had me at eleventy-first birthday party.

[Alecksander]

[MJ Codename: ♕Duchess♕]

I'm obsessed with this book and I started listening to the second one even though I have four books I have to get finished.

[❤SanaReads❤]

by Penelope Douglas

[Sumit]

The Dragon Whisperer

[Talea]

Falling Kingdoms, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Throne of Glass.

[Parvati Patil]

[Sumit]

Dark Matter.
One of the best first chapters I have ever read.

[˙⋆✮ Anny ✮⋆˙]

@SumitRK Not just a good first chapter! Dark Matter was one of the best books I've read last week year!

[Naaytaashreads]

The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks!!!

[Elina]

It was cold and raining fall morning when I first picked up this book.

The rain had been falling for days. The mud came up to his ankles. If it didn't stop raining, even the frogs woud drown in this world that was now one enormous bog.

[MK ( MaKayla)]

Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Caraval
Nevermore by Kelly Creagh

[Nemo]

In general, then I would say it was a toss-up between Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, but more recently, and as a LGBTQ+ book, then it's The Foxhole Court (All for the Game) series.

[Katie.dorny]

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe was the only one this year that i literally could not put down. I was obsessed and I'm so excited for the sequel to be published already.

[Mary Ann]

The Night Circus and Six of Crows

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Depends on how old I was when I read the book. I was 13 when I read Dragonflight for the first time. The library where I went to school had just gotten it hot off the presses (yes, I AM that old) and it had my attention from the first sentence, never mind the first chapter. That was one of the first books that I read that had a female MC who wasn't out doing "girl" stuff--you know, shopping, keeping house etc. Well, except for Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden, but well, they weren't someone that I found that interesting anyway, even though I've read all of both sets of books. But Lessa--now that was someone that I could relate to. (Um, not a usual upbringing for a girl back in the 60's. My Dad was military and we were overseas in what are now referred to as "hot spots" and Dad had taught all of us how to use a gun and given us our orders--Protect Mum and the younger ones.) So to have a female who actually DID things. Wow.

Then at 16 I found a copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress in a thrift store and that gave me my political philosophy that I use to this day.

There have been others, but those are the 2 that were really big influences on my young and impressionable mind way back when.

[Dani]

Ethic. By Ashley Antoinnette

[Molly]

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

[Emily]

Turtles All the Way Down and The Sun is Also a Star

[Eesha]

The Raven Boysby Maggie Stiefvater

[Hollybooks]

The upside of unrequited by Becky Albertalli

[Julio]

The Outsiders

[Stephen]

Perfume by Patrick Suskin I new by the first sentences

[Cassie 'The Thinker Go Go Go Go' Mis. Roben Goodfellow'\Isabelle Lightwood]

Spell Bound

[Readasaurus]

The Outsiders!!!