bookish nook | First & Final
First and Final: Gone for Good by Harlan Coben
My collection keeps growing
I’ve been collecting opening and closing lines from the books I read. Some are, of course, better than others. That’s to be expected.
What I did not expect is that I now pay so much more attention to the opening and closing lines of the books I read. There’s also an anticipation about those lines. It’s made reading a little bit more fun than before.
My first intention with Gone for Good was to write only a First & Final article, but I ended up writing so much about the book itself that I decided to divide what I had to say into two stories. Here is the book review, if you want to read what I thought about it:
As for the first and final lines of the book, I can tell you I was pleasantly surprised both times. Harlan Coben has a masterful way of concocting powerful sentences.
Opening Line
“Three days before her death, my mother told me…
