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Hello Hello! How are you?
Today I’m back with a meme because I’m so busy, feeling unwell and tired at the minute and need an easy and fun post to write to motivate myself.
I’m also featuring a book I’ve wanted to read since it was published and I’m really hoping to pick it up soon. So without further ado, let’s get into this week’s post!
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!
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!
Fade in.
Parking lot.
The middle of night.
The middle of nowhere.
Beginning at the end, like a great film noir. Bill Holden dead in the swimming pool. Fred MacMurray giving his last confession.
Going full circle. Like a noose.
There’s a car, a diner, a neon sign in the parking lot fading to streaks in the rearview mirror as the car speeds away. Inside are two people — a young woman in the passenger seat and a man behind the wheel. Both stare through the windshield to the road ahead, uncertain.
About who they are.
About where they’re going.
And how they got there, to this precise moment in time. Just before midnight. The final seconds of Tuesday, November 19, 1991.
But Charlie knows what brought them to the cusp of this uncertain new day. As the situation unfolds frame by frame, like film through a projector, she knows exactly how it all happened.
She knows because this isn’t a movie.
It’s the here and now.
She’s the girl in the car.
The man behind the wheel is a killer.
And Charlie understands, with the certainty of someone who’s seen this kind of movie a hundred times before, that only one of them will live to see the dawn.
But what book is this quote from?
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Charlie Jordan is being driven across the country by a serial killer. Maybe.
Behind the wheel is Josh Baxter, a stranger Charlie met by the college ride share board, who also has a good reason for leaving university in the middle of term. On the road they share their stories, carefully avoiding the subject dominating the news – the Campus Killer, who’s tied up and stabbed three students in the span of a year, has just struck again.
Travelling the lengthy journey between university and their final destination, Charlie begins to notice discrepancies in Josh’s story.
As she begins to plan her escape from the man she is becoming certain is the killer, she starts to suspect that Josh knows exactly what she’s thinking.
Meaning that she could very well end up as his next victim.
Last year, I read Home Before Dark by Riley Sager and I absolutely loved it. It was so atmospheric, so well written and just a joy to read despite how spooky and creepy it was at times. So when I sas his next book published, I knew I needed to get my hands on a copy.
I’ll hopefully be reading this one very soon, and I just can’t wait to make my way through more books from this author!
That’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this post.
See you soo, stay safe,
Ellie xx