First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers 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?
The Rules:
- 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!
First Lines:
“The clinic was usually loud at night. Addicts, detoxing, shouting. But this part was quiet, the disinfectant smell less pervasive. No one had said rehab would be easy. But Haley hadn’t counted on it being this hard.”
Oooooh, this one sounds a little creepy, a little mysterious, a lot interesting.
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s a new thriller.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s written by Cate Quinn.
The First Lines Friday book is:
The Clinic
About the Book:
Title: The Clinic
Author: Cate Quinn
Page Length: 448 pages
Publication Date: January 23, 2024
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Synopsis:
From the critically acclaimed author of Black Widows comes a thriller set in a remote rehab clinic on the Pacific Northwest coast, in which the death of a woman inside prompts her sister to enter the clinic as a patient in order to find the truth. Perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham and Tarryn Fisher!
Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control.
There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can’t believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in herself – to investigate what really happened from the inside.
Battling her own addictions and figuring out the truth will be much more difficult than she imagined, far away from friends, family – and anyone who could help her.
Links: Goodreads
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Categories: First Lines Friday
Leah's Books 
Nice post 🙏
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Thank you!
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I like the vibes this is giving off! The cover reminds me of The Sanitorium, and the movie Stonehearst Asylum.
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Yes! I haven’t seen Stonehearst Asylum, but the cover does remind me of The Sanatorium a bit! I recently started it, and so far so good.
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