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!

It’s time for my first First Lines Friday of 2025! I miss doing this particular bookish meme because I do love a guessing game. This week, I’m featuring one of my current reads that has proven to be quite the ride. It’s a thriller that has completely sucked me in and I’m so eager to see how it ends.

Now, let’s see if the first lines will be intriguing enough to pull you in, as well.

The Line(s):

“She looks at the body of her mother, sprawled in the hallway. If she turns her head, she will see her father, slumped in his chair by the fireplace in the next room, one fingertip still touching the side of a glass in which his whiskey, the ice long melted, still sits.”