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How Thrillers Hook You With Their First Sentence

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Can our Book Review editor, Tina Jordan, guess thrillers from their first sentence? In this game we explore a few of the books from The New York Times’s “50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century” list; and learn a bit more about why opening sentences are so important to get people reading.

First report: The Best New YA Thrillers To End Summer With — bookriot.com, 2d