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…
“Nothing says you’ve made a wrong turn in life like playing ‘The Hokey Pokey’ on electric guitar for an old couple’s fiftieth wedding anniversary. My whole life has been about sex, drugs, and rock and roll–but the wrong kind of each.”
Do you know this one?
This one made me chuckle…
And then I had to read more!
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
Vice and Virtue by Libby Klein
Layla Virtue, a blue-haired, thirtysomething recovering alcoholic and former cop is trying to reinvent herself in this hilarious and heartfelt mystery.
Layla is taking her new life one day at a time from the Lake Pinecrest Trailer Park she now calls home. Being alone is how she likes it. Simple. Uncomplicated. Although try telling that to the group of local ladies in relentless pursuit of her as their new BFF.
Meanwhile, after her first career ended in a literal explosion, Layla’s trying to eke out a living as a rock musician. It’s hard competing against garage bands who work for tacos and create their music on a computer while all she has is an electric guitar and leather-ish pants. But she isn’t in a position to turn down any gig—which is why she’s at an eight-year-old’s birthday party, watching as Chuckles the Clown takes a bow under the balloon animals. No one expects it will be his last…
I am more than half way through this one and finding it very humorous. Not a lot of emphasis on the clown murder yet, but I am certainly here for the characters and Layla’s mysterious famous dad. Until next time….
Confessions of a Serial Reader 