May 21, 2021 – Kerri McBookNerd

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? If you want to make your own post, feel free to use or edit the banner above, and follow the rules below:

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!

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Hello, reader!

Happy Friday! As we arrive at the end of another week, it’s time for another First Lines Friday. This time, I’m bringing you a newer release that I’ve been wanting to read for sometime. It also happens to be on my Netgalley backlog, which is why it’s very high on my TBR! Let’s see if you can guess the young adult thriller I’m talking about from just the first few lines and some hints.

The Line(s):

“She’s at Mrs. Ruthie’s house, eating one of Mrs. Ruthie’s peanut butter cookies, staring out Mrs. Ruthie’s living room window and waiting for her parents to come home.
From here, Bea can see her house with all its lights off and tree in the front door locked. The wooden swing hanging from the tree in the front yard rocks idly in the summer breeze. The driveway is empty. All of this makes her stomach hurt, but not enough to abandon the cookie, so yummy and so soft.”