First Lines Fridays 9

I had two options for this post from the title you know which one I picked and I’m currently reading from my last Top Five Wednesday list since the rest of the books on my TBR I got in May so I can’t read them now as per Readathin rules but I think I covered all the reading prompts there was for this round but I’m following the readathon very loosely and relaxed since I have enough stress as is. I cheated a little by reading some picture books, but that barely counts, right?

When I’m running low on TBR books, I like to play a game where I pick a random word. This time it was skin and start a book from my Kindle, I know nothing about it, in order to try and stop my mood-reading habit. I checked, and I got this one in 2018, so it is in the older TBR range. First Lines Friday is a weekly feature for book lovers that was formerly 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!

Note: The original host blog does not appear to be active any longer, but if anyone knows of a new host, please share the information!

First Lines:

I clenched my hand on the armrest. The fabric was rough and nubby beneath my palm, but thin enough that I briefly wondered if I’d tear it. There wasn’t even anything to be afraid of, and I kept trying to tell myself that, to use logic to get rid of the anxiety. But fear was an illogical thing. And squeezing an armrest to death would have more of an immediate effect on my fear than any reasoning ever would.

Goodreads Blurb:

Ava should be living her dream as the drummer for Escaping Indigo. The problem is, she’s secretly in love with her bandmate, Tuck. But he’s fallen for someone else. Being a drummer is still the best, but for Ava, every day is also a reminder of what she can’t have.

With her grandmother moving into assisted living, Ava figures it’s a good time to head home and help out. And if it lets her get some distance from Tuck and his girlfriend, all the better. But Ava hasn’t visited her family in years, and home isn’t really home anymore. Instead, it’s the place she’s been running from, full of memories of everything her parents wanted for her—and everything she didn’t want for herself.

But on the airplane, Ava meets Cara, and the two women feel an immediate connection. And when they bump into each other a second time, it seems like fate. Cara offers Ava something she’s never had—someone to love who loves her back. But to be with Cara, Ava may have to change her whole life around, and that’s something she’s not sure she’s ready for.

Goodreads Link Here

StoryGraph Link Here

Alex