Each Tuesday, Vicki, from I’d Rather Be At The Beach hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros where readers post the opening paragraph(s) of a book that they are reading or plan to read.
What Happens in Paradise; Elin Hilderbrand
Little Brown & Company - 2019
Part One
A Rooster and Two Hens
Irene
She wakes up facedown on a beach. Someone is calling her name.
Irene!
She lifts her head and feels her cheek and lips dusted with sand so white and fine, it might be powdered sugar. Irene can sense impending clouds. As the sun disappears, it gains a white-hot intensity; it's like a laser cutting through her. The next instant she feels the highest sprinkling of rain.
Irene!
She sits up. The beach is unfamiliar, but it's tropical---there's turquoise water before her, lush vegetation behind, a rooster and two hens strutting around. She must be back in St. John.
How did she get here?
I like the way this is written, the POV itself intrigues me. Have a great week!
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That was several paragraphs but it sounds interesting. I would have read on after the first sentence.
ReplyDeleteI read the book and liked this one even better than the first book of the series and it ended on a cliff hanger so I can't wait for the next one.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I'm not usually one to read a book told in this style, but I like that you know the person's name right away. That helps.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing and for visiting my blog earlier. Hope you enjoy this book.
Ooh, I like the premise of this. How did she get there??
ReplyDeleteI haven't read Hilderbrand in a while. The opening is intriguing.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all intriguing, second of all, the book cover, so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThis is on my wishlist. I love this author.
ReplyDeleteI like this author and thanks for the review.
ReplyDeleteThis is an author I've somehow never read but I've really been wanting to try her books. This one looks really good!
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