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…
“He is fighting for his life — but so is she. She is neck-deep in the water; there is salt in her eyes, water in her lungs, and she is gasping, choking, unable to breath.“
Do you know this one?
Wow! That is a memorable start!
Makes you want to know more, doesn’t it?
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
Summary from Goodreads:
Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, The Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples—Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana—in order to win a cash prize.
But not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real—and the stakes are life or death.
A fast-paced, spellbinding thriller rife with intrigue and characters that feel so true to life, this novel proves yet again that Ruth Ware is the queen of psychological suspense.
I have been listening to this one all week and really enjoying it. I’m about halfway through and I am a little bit worried that no one is going to survive the island. It is being compared to Christie’s And Then There Were None, so it won’t be a huge surprise, but I do hope the narrator at least makes it to the end.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 
Ruth Ware is a hit or miss for me, this sounds interesting thanks for the for the post
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Your welcome. I’ve had issues with some of her other books, but so far this one seems to be working.
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