First Lines Fridays: August 11, 2017

Lee — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:00:18 +0000

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:

If I had to describe my best friend, Bethany, in one word, it would be persistent. Or maybe unrelenting.

Interested? Scroll down for the cover and summary!

Bitter End by Jennifer Brown

When Alex falls for the charming new boy at school, Cole — a handsome, funny, sports star who adores her — she can’t believe she’s finally found her soul mate . . . someone who truly loves and understands her.

At first, Alex is blissfully happy. Sure, Cole seems a little jealous of her relationship with her close friend Zack, but what guy would want his girlfriend spending all her time with another boy? As the months pass, though, Alex can no longer ignore Cole’s small put-downs, pinches, or increasingly violent threats.

As Alex struggles to come to terms with the sweet boyfriend she fell in love with and the boyfriend whose “love” she no longer recognizes, she is forced to choose — between her “true love” and herself.

Bitter End – Darkestwings Reads

First Lines Fridays: August 11, 2017

If I had to describe my best friend, Bethany, in one word, it would be persistent. Or maybe unrelenting.

Bitter End by Jennifer Brown