First Lines Friday

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!

Got it? Okay let’s go! Here is the quote…

‘I grew up in a house of disappearing children.‘

Do you know this one?

That first line just gives me chills!

It’s a little bit horror, a little bit mystery/thriller

Have you guessed?

Yes? No?

Give up?

Here it is!

Monsters We Have Made

By Lindsay Starck

Summary from Goodreads:

Ten years ago, Sylvia Gray’s young daughter, Faye, attacked her babysitter in order to impress the Kingman, a monster she and her best friend had encountered on the Internet. When the now twenty-one-year-old Faye goes missing, leaving her toddler behind, Sylvia launches a search that propels her back into the past and back into the Kingman’s orbit. With the help of her estranged husband, her estranged sister, and a charismatic professor, Sylvia draws dangerously closer not only to Faye, but also to the truth about the monster that once inspired her. Will Sylvia be able to reach her daughter before history repeats itself? Or will it be Sylvia, this time, who loses her grip on reality and succumbs to the dark powers of this monstrous figure?

I totally picked this one up totally on a whim at the library. I love that cover, and I just had to see what this story was about. Then that opening line! I just could not put this book down, but I did long enough to get it checked out.

Until next time….

Happy Reading!