Book Opening
WHEN THE SHOE DROPPED INTO her lap, the foot was still in it.
She flung it into the air with a shriek. The bloodied mass hung in weightless suspension before being sucked out of the massive hole in the side of the aircraft. On the floor next to her seat, a flight attendant crawled up the aisle screaming for the passengers to put their oxygen masks on.
REVIEW OF BOOK OPENING
The opening line of this novel had me 100%. It’s short, concise, and utterly terrifying, or is it? Perhaps someone just tossed their feet (or, in this case, a single foot) into someone’s lap? Was it a lover, or a child putting a foot in a mother’s lap? My horror drops slightly as I ponder non-horrifying things until I get to the next line. It could be a young girl or a woman, I still don’t know, but the foot wasn’t attached to any person.
Such a great visual on the next line, with it being suspended weightlessly in the air for a moment before it was sucked out of the massive hole in the side of the aircraft. WOW… all of that in three lines! Imagine what she can do in the space of an entire novel.
In the first four lines opening this book, I already have a series of questions. 1) Who is this poor girl? 2) Who lost their foot? 3) How did this person get separated from their foot. 4) What caused the hole in the plane 5) Is the plane going to crash?
This is one of the best openings on a book that was not even on my radar before reading the first page. I immediately added it to my have to read soon pile.
5/5 Top Notch
John Reinier
This must be her first book because I can’t find her name attached to anything else. After reading the book opening I feel that I now need to give her a shot. :fingers crossed: