First sentence of current book

[Andie-j]

If I’m not home in two months, I’m dead - Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody

[anwidmer]

It was 10:32 a.m. on a bright but brisk Tuesday morning, and the newly renovated, very popular coffee house in New York's East Side, was already bubbling with reasonably loud and happy chatter.

[anwidmer]

It was 10:32 a.m. on a bright but brisk Tuesday morning, and the newly renovated, very popular coffee house in New York's East Side, was already bubbling with reasonably loud and happy chatter.
The elusive mr. Vellucci by Tina Griffith

[Majaliwa Abiba Alice]

Zap! Zap! Zap! The machine gun bullets thudded into Jamie's Knapsack, which protruded just above the jagged limestone rocks where he was sheltering.
"The Waramunga war" by Creg Kater

[JazmynElizabeth]

"Like a white bird, the scream flew up from the depths of the cellar, then became trapped inside Marion's head."
- 'The Visitor' by Catherine Bird.

[TaaraLynn]

"The letter was his best idea yet." - Maggie's Miracle by Karen Kingsbury

[butterbean]

One of these days I am going to learn to say no.

The Cakes of Wrath by Jacklyn Brady

[KatSims92]

"Althea Proserpine is raising her daughter on fairy tales."

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

[Redlegs]

When the last of the city's trams were removed with their poles and bells and the industrial paraphernalia of lines imposed on the mind's eye, it was as though a great net had been lifted clear of the city, letting in light.

Holden's Performance, Murray Bail

[Mallory Porshnev]

I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen

[Storm+]

"The sunrise was the color of bad blood." (Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie)

[Elifer]

How can you tell the legend from the fact on these worlds that lie so many years away? - planets without names, called by their people simply The World, planets without history, where the past is the matter of myth, and a returning explorer finds his own doings of a few years back have become the gestures of a god.

Rocannon's world, Ursula K. LeGuin

[Damaris Juliet]

Dripping.....

[Bonnie Shelby]

"Did you think you were going to die?"

Seeing Red by Sandra Brown

[Terra7]

'Rynah straightened her charcoal gray, form-fitting uniform as she hurried down the asphalt walkway to the tall, glass doors leading to the geo-lab'- Solaris Seethes by Janet McNulty