First Lines Friday is a weekly feature 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?

Here’s how it works!

• 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!

The second I close my eyes, the memories play, and I find myself back at the beginning

You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao

I haven’t started You’ve Reached Sam yet, but I need to get to it soon because it is the pick for one of the book clubs that I’m in and we’re meeting at the end of the month to discuss it. I don’t know much about this book, but that opening line makes me want to dive into it soon.

From Goodreads: Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam dies. And everything changes.

In a miraculous turn of events, Julie’s been given a second chance at goodbye. The connection is temporary. But hearing Sam’s voice makes her fall for him all over again, and with each call it becomes harder to let him go. However, keeping her otherworldly calls with Sam a secret isn’t easy, especially when Julie witnesses the suffering Sam’s family is going through. Unable to stand by the sidelines and watch their shared loved ones in pain, Julie is torn between spilling the truth about her calls with Sam and risking their connection and losing him forever.

If you’re interested, you can purchase a copy of You’ve Reached Sam from Amazon* here

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