First Lines Fridays #3

Here’s my bookish dilemma: I’m reading a novel on my Kindle (a WWII fiction based on a true story), which I’m loving, but I just saw a holiday queer rom-com, which cover had caught my eye, but it’s not on Kindle, and I promised myself to read at least 30 holiday books, but I have seen more Christmas movies than I read the books. The question I have is this: Should I stop this book and start the other to be able to tell you more about the plot, more than it has a dancing competition of some sort? I guess I will have it figured out by the end of this post. First Lines 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?

• 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:

Toby

“RUN THAT BY ME AGAIN. You want to do what?” I could hear the exasperation in Malcolm’s voice and practically see him rubbing his forehead as he stared out of his office window and wondered why he’d kept me on as a client.

The fact I knew exactly what he was doing when this wasn’t even a video call wasn’t a good sign. Then again, being able to predict what my agent would say to my more outlandish requests was a skill I considered rather useful. It meant I knew what I could get away with.

“I want to be on Come Dancing With Me,” I said, stretching my legs out in front of me where I was sat on the studio floor, my open notebook resting on my knee with lyrics scrawled across the pages. “I think it would be a ridiculous amount of fun!”

Goodreads Blurb:

Sometimes Love Catches You Out Of Step

Convincing my agent to sign me up for the Come Dancing With Me Christmas special was the best decision I’ve made in years, especially when my partner turns out to be the show’s stunning ‘bad boy’, Nico.

I’m ready to put on my sequins and my dancing shoes, but first I need to figure out how to defrost Nico’s attitude towards me. He seems under the impression that as an ex-boyband superstar I’m going to be a diva, and not even some homemade gingerbread is helping!

But the more hours we spend together in training, the more we begin to connect. Nico might be prickly but he’s the first person who begins to see me as more than my past. And as things heat up on and off the dancefloor, I realise I don’t want to let Nico go.

Our connection is only supposed to be temporary, but can we find a way to make it last forever?

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Alex