Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence of the book you’re reading. The Friday 56 – As many of you know Freda over at Freda’s Voice hosted The Friday56 for many years. Since Freda is going to be gone from hosting The Friday 56 for a while, Anne over at My Head Is Full of Books will be hosting this link-up. So grab a book, turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader, and share a non-spoiler sentence or two. First Line Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Reading is My Superpower that asks you to share the first sentence of the book you’re reading. Book Blogger Hop asks a question of general interest or discussion hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer
My book for today is Silent Sister by Megan Davidhizar
Publication Date: August 1, 2024
Grace can’t remember how her sister Maddy disappeared, and even the police think she’s lying. But it’s hard to look innocent with a missing girl’s blood on your clothes…
One week earlier, Maddy – rejected for the college scholarship of her dreams, abandoned by her only friend on her birthday – was tired of living in Grace’s shadow. She was ready to be someone new, which was exactly what was promised by an exclusive senior trip at their expensive private school.
But eighteen years’ worth of awkwardness didn’t evaporate just because Maddy was holed up in a mountain lodge with thirty classmates, playing games and learning so-called life lessons.
Now, without her memories of the trip, Grace must piece together notebook entries and classmates’ revelations to discover how her sister disappeared. And unless Grace can find out what happened to Maddy, she’ll never clear her conscience — or her name.
First Sentence:
Grace: April 27
The face on a missing person poster is supposed to be a stranger. Those yellowed papers tacked up in grocery stores are children who disappeared fifteen years ago. Amber Alerts are kids from other states with parents fighting for custody. And yet the face staring back at me from the TV— the girl under the siren-red MISSING letters— That’s me.
Page 56
Someone screams in the dark, and Ryan’s voice booms from another room, “Found one!” Thunder rolls outside and rattles the windows of the old building.
Today’s Question Is: – What is your favorite 2023 book? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)
A: Wow, this is so HARD to answer, because there have been so many awesome books I have read this year… So I will have to go with “Perfect Little Monsters by Cindy R.X. He“. I enjoyed this so much that I pre-ordered the paperback.
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