Hooked By A Line

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Oo, I really like Beloved's opener.

[Sonny]

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
Red Rising

T'was love at first line, tbh.

[Rachel]

I enjoyed the opening for Lagoon. First line:

She slices through the water, imagining herself a deadly beam of black light.

[Kristin B.]

Arianna had a bomb, three bullets, two refined daggers, a mental map of her heist, and a magic winch-box.

Opening line of The Alchemists of Loom

I don't know what Arianna is up to yet, but it seems like it's going to be pretty epic. Or at least involve a lot of destruction. I also enjoy the implication that she has three bullets, but may or may not have a gun...

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Yes, that's about to be genius or very confusing haha!

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

"A week after Mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett was delivered to her new school." ~The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Oh, that is so much fun!

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

Allison wrote: "Oh, that is so much fun!"


Yeah, promising start!

It's gotten a bit typical "old school boarding school" since the promising start, but it's early days so I'm still hopeful.

[Kristin B.]

Just downloaded The Day of the Triffids for Virtual Book Club.

Opening line:

"When a day you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere."

[W.K.]

Might be cheating here, but the first paragraph of The Player of Games is one of the quickest and most deceptively deep summations of a complex plot I've ever seen.

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called Gurgeh. The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game."

For me, some of the best openings say something profound that you may not even recognize as such until the end of the story, after the opening statement has been given so many different meanings that your head is spinning.

[Caitlin]

“ there was a demon here in McDonald’s. And it it had a powerful hunger for Big Mac’s.”

White hot kiss by Jennifer L. Armentrout

[Andres]

"With my hand on the doorjamb, some buried-alive instinct thumps within my chest: this is going to hurt. I take a deep breath and step inside."

Prologue - 1st sentence of 'Heroes Die' by Matthew Stover