Yayaya, HAPPY FRIYAY, book lovers and friends 😍We’re back with another First Lines Friday! This 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? Here are 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:
“Other people overwhelmed her. Strange, perhaps, for a woman who’d added four beings to the universe of her own reluctant volition, but a fact nonetheless: Marilyn rued the inconvenient presence of bodies, bodies beyond her control, her understanding; bodies beyond her favor.”

Do you recognize the book these first lines come from?







Okay, okay, calm yourself mate...

*drumroll please!*



The book is: The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
At a family wedding, the four Sorenson sisters polka-dot the green lawn in their summer pastels, with varying shades of hair and varying degrees of unease. Their long-infatuated parents watch on with a combination of love and concern.
Sixteen years later, the already messy lives of the sisters are thrown into turmoil by the unexpected reappearance of a teenage boy given up for adoption years earlier – and the rich and varied tapestry of the Sorensons’ past is revealed.
Weaving between past and present, The Most Fun We Ever Had portrays the delights and difficulties of family life and the endlessly complex mixture of affection and abhorrence we feel for those closest to us. A dazzlingly accomplished debut and an utterly immersive portrait of one family’s becoming, it marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.
I just agreed to reading this with a group of my close bookstagram friends for a discussion at the end of January, and I’m hoping that this will be good!

Have you read The Most Fun We Ever Had or is it on your TBR?

I didn’t guess it xD I have actually never heard of this one.
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It’s funny coz in certain bookstagram circles this book is super popular and hyped and in others it’s not at all. I’m reading it with a group of booksta friends and I’m really hoping I’ll like it. It’s chunky 😂
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Interesting first lines. Hope you enjoy it!
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Thanks Ali! Same here 😆
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Never heard of this one before but wow those opening lines are good!!! Hope you love it Dini :)))
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Thanks Emer! I hope I enjoy it too 😆 Otherwise it’s gonna be a long book… Hahaha
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I didn’t have a specific title in mind, but was still way off with thinking it was some sort of paranormal romance type story. I’m not sure why I got that vibe.
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Oh interesting! I actually don’t know what kind of vibe I got from these first lines. I don’t normally read paranormal romance but I guess I can see how that could make sense 😊
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I’ve never heard of this book, but man do I feel a kinship with Marilyn lol. I only added one being to the universe, but there’s still too dang many people here already. xD
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Haha the minute I saw these first lines I was like Oh shit, yeah, I get that 😆
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