Books: First Lines Fridays 14th February 2025
What is First Lines Fridays?
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!
My Pick For This Week
The first lines of the book:
Crowd Band Live Chat Jimmy R: Heard the news. Congratulations, Tony. My heart leaps into my throat. What’s the news? I’m certain it doesn’t involve me. I wish it did—I hope it does—but deep down, I know it doesn’t. None of them realize I’m here. I heard the chime, glanced up from the dreadful pile of papers I was grading, and there it was—a group chat I’d forgotten I was still part of.
And the book is...
Sienna Holloway thought she had it all—an intoxicating whirlwind romance, a dazzling wedding, and a future with Tony, the man of her dreams. But when Tony brings home a pair of revolutionary Your Perfect Match bands, designed to find soulmates through quantum energy, their perfect life begins to crack.
At first, the experiment feels harmless, even exciting—a chance to prove what Sienna already knows: she and Tony are destined for forever. But when Tony meets his match, the unthinkable happens. Suddenly, the man who vowed to love her is enchanted by someone else, leaving Sienna reeling in heartbreak and confusion.
Desperate to understand what went wrong, Sienna agrees to meet her own match. Yet instead of finding clarity, she’s drawn deeper into a web of doubt and longing, forced to question everything she believed about love, destiny, and herself.
Can Sienna reclaim the life she built with Tony? Or is she destined to lose him to a system that claims to know their hearts better than they do?
Perfect for fans of The One by John Marrs and The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren, Your Perfect Match is a poignant tale of love, betrayal, and the fight to rediscover what truly matters.
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