First Lines Fridays – 4th February 2022

Hey everyone!

It is time for this week’s First Lines Fridays post!

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers. 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!

The first lines of today’s chosen book are:

Extract from the transcript of the T-minus-one-day final interview with Lex Hazelton [LH], contestant 1/5 It’s Behind You: Season 3, Episode 10 (Umber Gorge Caves). Interviewed by Jackie Stone [JS], producer of It’s Behind You.

JS: Tell us why you’ve volunteered to spend the night in a haunted cave, Lex.

And the book is…

It’s Behind You by Kathryn Foxfield

READ MY REVIEW HERE!

GoodReads Synopsis:

Welcome to the reality game show that’ll scare you to death! Have you got what it takes to last the night?

Five contestants must sit tight through the night in dark and dangerous Umber Gorge caves, haunted by a ghost called the Puckered Maiden. But is it the malevolent spirit they should fear … or each other?

As the production crew ramps up the frights, secrets start to be revealed. These teenagers have hidden motives for taking part in It’s Behind You! and could some of them be … murder?

It’s ‘Most Haunted’ meets ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here’ for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus.

Have you read this book?
If yes, what did you think of it?

Let me know in the comments!