First Line Fridays | 18 July 2025

by · July 18, 2025

 

 

 

 

Dear Bookbugs,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have always wanted to do this book meme. And here we are, finally.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am talking about First Line Fridays. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Line Fridays is a weekly book meme 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’s how it works!

  • 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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here we go,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Lines :

 

 

 

 

“Most summer nights in the small beach town of Vienna Shores, North Carolina , there was music at the Revelry. Everything about the old music hall was unforgettable.”

 

 

 

 

 

It is a popular contemporary romance novel by a very popular author. Any guesses?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I hope you got it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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And the book is 

 

 

 

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Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston is a book in my TBR which I am really excited to read. I love Ashley Poston’s poetic style of writing and cannot wait to start this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodreads Synopsis :

 

 

 

 

 

 

A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from Ashley Poston.

Joni Lark is living the dream. She’s one of the most coveted songwriters in LA…and she can’t seem to write. There’s an emptiness inside her, and nothing seems to fill it.

When she returns to her hometown of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, she hopes that the sand, the surf, and the concerts at The Revelry, her family’s music venue, will spark her inspiration. But when she gets there, nothing is how she left it. Her best friend is avoiding her, her mother’s memories are fading fast, and The Revelry is closing.

How can she think about writing her next song when everything is changing without her?

Until she hears it. A melody in her head, lyric-less and half-formed, and an alluring and addictive voice to go with it—belonging, apparently, to a wry musician with hangups of his own.

Surely, he’s a figment of her overworked imagination.

But then the very real man attached to the voice shows up in Vienna Shores. He’s aggravating and gruff on the outside—nothing like the sweet, funny voice in Joni’s head—and he has a plan:

They’ll finish the song haunting them both, break their connection, and hope they don’t risk their hearts in the process.

Because that song stuck in their heads? Maybe it’s there for a reason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you guess the book right away?

 

 

Have you read Sounds Like Love ? If so, let me know your thoughts in the comments. Also, share your First Line Fridays posts if you have them. I would love to check them out.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Reading Everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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