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…
“If it weren’t for the fire ants crawling up my leg, I would be thoroughly enjoying the evening. It’s another steamy Texas night, the wind scented with oncoming rain, and I’m tucked in the crook of a sprawling oak tree in the backyard of a multimillionaire’s estate. He doesn’t know it yet, but I’m going to kill him.”
Do you know this one?
This one just came out this week…
It is a fun mystery thriller…
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
Somebody Worth Killing
Summary from Goodreads:
Meet Nadia Davis, a doting mom and loving wife who has a big secret: she’s actually an assassin. And she really needs a babysitter who shows up on time.
Nadia Davis is living the dream as a successful working mom with a career she loves, two adorable little girls, and a devoted husband who has no idea that she’s secretly a hired assassin and psychopath who kills certified bad guys. So when Nadia finds out she’s been “mommy tracked” by her assassin’s agency and is no longer getting the bigger, more exciting jobs, she demands an important mark…somebody worth killing.
But it turns out that big kill is the last person she expects—her husband. How is the sweet, kind, teller-of-dad jokes she’s promised her life to an evil villain who needs exterminating? Has their whole life together been a lie? Now Nadia must choose between the two things she loves most in life, the career that keeps her sane or the family she thought she knew.
I really enjoyed this one, even though it was pretty far fetched and totally predicatable. Still the characters were great and the story was fast paced and very interesting.
What do you think? Have you heard about this book? Is it on your TBR? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time…
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