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…
“A fat harvest moon hung low over the beach the night Tidebury House washed ashore — over the wet, packed sand and ragged black rocks, all the way past the edge of the high water line. It dripped with dirty foam and seaweed, and it rested crookedly, draped with rotting nets, crusted with barnacles.”
Do you know this one?
Sounds pretty spooky, doesn’t it?
I plan on reading this one soon!
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
Summary from Goodreads:
A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart of the only woman who knows what it means. Her grandson, Simon Culpepper, vanishes in the aftermath, leaving two of his childhood friends to comb the small, isolated island for answers―but decades have passed since Melissa and Leo were close, if they were ever close at all.
Now they’ll have to put aside old rivalries and grudges if they want to find or save the man who brought them together in the first place―and on the way they’ll learn a great deal about the sinister house on the beach, the man who built it, and the evil he’s bringing back to Marrowstone Island.
This book has a lot of genre labels so hopefully it will appeal to a lot of different people. It is a horror, suspense thriller with some supernatural magical stuff thrown in. I have read many books by this author and have never been disappointed, so I am really looking forward to reading this one on a dark and stormy night.
Do you have this one on your TBR? What spooky reads are you planning on reading soon? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 