Hello Everyone!
Here’s this week’s First Line Friday post!
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!
Patricia was crying.
Wallace Price hated it when people cried.
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
I’ve been wanting to read this book since I fell in love with The House in the Cerulean Sea and I’ve finally moved it up to the top of my TBR! I’m hoping to pick up this book tonight and I cannot wait to see how it is.
Title: Under the Whispering Door
Author: T.J. Klune
Age Category: Adult
Length: 384 Pages
Published: September 21, 2021
Buy the Book: Amazon
Add on Goodreads and TheStoryGraph
Welcome to Charon’s Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.
When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.
And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.
But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.
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