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!
First Lines:
“I know your worst nightmare.
No, not that one. The other one.
The one you don’t trot out at parties.
The one you don’t whisper to your best friend late at night.”
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s written by Tracy Wolff.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s the first book in a series.
The First Lines Friday book is:
Sweet Nightmare
Author: Tracy Wolff
Series: The Calder Academy #1
Page Length: 496
Publication Date: May 7, 2024
Publisher: Entangled
Synopsis: The scariest school on earth
Is about to experience real fear…
Most schools are about being the best. This school? It’s about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary.
I should know. Because I’m trapped here.
Look, every seventeen-year-old girl thinks their mom is a tyrant. But mine just happens to run Calder Academy, which paints a giant target on my back. The way I make it through these dark halls is by steering clear of the things―and kids―who go bump in the night.
Especially Jude Abernathy-Lee.
But when a freak storm hits our isolated island, I’m stuck without a backup plan. The power is gone. The lights are out. And our worst nightmares are suddenly real―and out for blood.
Now the only way to survive is to align myself with one evil to avoid the other.
And the only thing worse than the idea of getting close to Jude? Secretly loving every minute of it.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Did you guess Sweet nightmare? What do you think of the first lines? Comment below!
Those lines are a great hook to open the story with!
Good first lines. The second you said it was Tracy Wolff I knew, lol, even though I haven’t read it.