First Line Friday – April 7th, 2023

First Line Friday 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?

The Rules:

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!

-The First Lines-

Katie lives alone on the island. She lives less for herself than for the dead.
This is just another day in April, a Tuesday defined by isolation and hard-won serenity – until it isn’t.

Any guesses?

During a conversation at dinner the other night, we were discussing good suspense novels. My mother-in-law suggested that I try reading Dean Koontz. I’m going to give it a go with The House at the End of the World.

I don’t know much about this book other than it’s an isolation-monster horror. A woman who lives on an island has a couple of government guys show up one day because something they won’t describe may have escaped their facility. It goes really bad on her island and the creature (thing?) might even be able to end the world.

Can’t wait to get it started!

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