This is my post for Book Beginnings On Friday, a weekly meme hosted at A Few More Pages. To take part, share the opening line of the book you're reading or will be reading soon, and give your opinion of the opening.
'Breakneck' is a thriller, but to be honest I didn't really pay much attention to the blurb before I bought it. Why? Because I found it in a £1 shop - yep, just £1 for a whole book whose RRP is 6.99! I just couldn't pass up that opportunity! Any book, with a cover that looks like it's my sort of thing, has got to be worth a pound. Into my basket it went, saved for that special occasion. Well, here's the opening:
"The kid's eyes snapped open. Matt Martin. Twenty-one-year-old computer-hacking loser. It took omly a moment for his expression to shift from sleepy confusion to horrified realization: there was a stranger in his bedroom. That stranger held a gun to his head, to the tender place between his eyes, just above the bridge of his nose."
Exciting! I normally prefer to give you just the opening sentence, but I thought this paragraph was too thrilling to keep it from you. I already have a million questions; who is this kid and what has happened to have him looking down the barrel of a gun? And who is it pointing the gun, and why? Waking up to find a stranger in the house is something I'm very fearful of, so to read this opening has fired up my adrenaline already. This has all the signs of a brilliant opening... I think I'm hooked!
That must be my biggest nightmare to be awakened by someone with a gun.
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My Head is Full of Books
The opening is great. I hope the rest of the book is as good.
ReplyDeleteI have this book in my TBR pile somewhere, the cover was enough to make me want it, if I remember rightly.
ReplyDeleteI keep a log of all the books I own and this one has a tick beside it, which means that my dad has read it and enjoyed at, that also is a good guideline for me, althoug generally it seems to have received mixed reviews.
Pound shops are great if they happen to have what you want at the time, I have picked up some great bargains in them. I tend to get most of my books from the charity shop where I volunteer, all of our fiction books are £1.25, including new titles and bestsellers, so I get some great bargains, hence my massive TBR pile!!
Enjoy the book when you get to read it and good luck with the assignments.
Yvonne
Oh - great opening. Filled with suspense and intrigue - I'd definitely keep reading!
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Love the opening. Very tense, short sentence fragments, pointed details. Makes it seems as though it's really happening instead of just happening in words.
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