First Line Fridays is a bookish meme created and hosted byย Hoarding Books. The rules are simple, post the first line(s) of the novel youโre currently reading or in my case next up on your TBR. then head on over to Hoarding Books and link up. (also, if youโre a romance reader loving on those ab covers, be sure to write (mature) next to your linky if your post shows mature content.)
Todayโs first line(s) are from the novel I finished reading last night:
Saving Beck
By: Courtney Cole
I pace, back and forth and backย again, because my intuition is buzzing but I don’t know why.ย All I know is that I’d woken up from a dead sleep two hours ago, and I had a heavy, heavy weight on my chest and Beck was in my thoughts.
Beck Kingsley is the star of his high school football team with a scholarship to Notre Dame in the bag. Until the night a car crash kills his father and changes his life forever. With his mother, Natalie, floundering in grief, Beck turns to the only source of comfort he can find: heroin.
Natalie must overcome the loss of her husband to fight for her son before she loses him, too. Can a mother’s love, in fact, save her son.
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There comes a time when offering your life for your childโs doesnโt work, when you realize that itโll never be enough.ย
The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort to my son at first. But then it became the monster that kept us apart.ย
Heroin lied, and my son believed. It took him to a world where the last year didnโt happen, to a place where his father was still alive. What Beck didnโt understand was that it couldnโt bring his father back from the dead. It couldnโt take away his pain, not permanently.ย
You think it canโt happen to you, that your kids, your family, will never be in this situation.ย
I thought that too. But youโre wrong.ย
Step into our world, and see for yourself.ย
Watch my golden boy become a slave to this raging epidemic. Watch me try and save him.ย
Drug addiction comes with a price.ย
Trust me, youโre not equipped to pay it.ย
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Happy Friday!
Today on my blog I’m sharing the first line from Cross My Heart by Robin Lee Hatcher: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/07/25/first-line-friday-95/. I’m currently reading Ever Faithful by Karen Barnett, so I’ll share the first line from there.
“Elsie closed her eyes for a moment and breathed in the steamy air, imagining she stood beside Grand Prismatic Spring instead of the massive laundry boiler in the back of the Mammoth Hot Springs Lodge.”
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I love this opening line, it definitely draws the attention and makes me want to read more! Thank you so much for sharing.
I hope you have a great weekend as well ๐
Happy Reading.
Happy Friday! I haven’t started this yet, but my first line (well – 2 lines) is from “Margin of Error” by Christy Barritt:
“Hunger and anger battled inside him like two storm fronts colliding. A violent friction clashed in his very soul.”
Ohhh! I’m intrigued!
Today on my blog I shared the first line from A Lady’s Maid by Jen Geigle Johnson but it’s also the book I’m about to dig into so no extra line yet. Hope you have a great weekend!
Happy Friday! Today I’m sharing the first lines from No Ocean Too Wide by Carrie Turansky: “Katie McAlister’s heart pounded out a frantic beat as she gripped the rickety railing and rushed down the back stairs.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/07/first-line-fridays-no-ocean-too-wide-by.html
Happy Friday! Iโm sharing from The Yellow Lantern by Angie Dicken today. Here is the first line from Chapter 2:
โThe factory rose above with row upon row of sharp-edged bricks.โ
Thank you for sharing!
Wow. Sounds like that will be an emotional read. It would be for me, anyway!
Have a great weekend. ๐
It was a very emotional read. And one that I’l be thinking about for a long time.
I hope you have a great weekend as well!
An intriguing opening! Iโm sharing on my blog the first line from Underestimating Miss Cecilia by Carolyn Miller.
It was, perhaps, the greatest torment to love someone who barely seemed to notice oneโs existence.