Hook. It’s not just Peter Pan’s archenemy. When you first open a book, it needs to hook you in otherwise you’ll never get past the first chapter. You’ll put that book down and open up another one. Another one where the first few pages make you want to read a few more pages until you suddenly find yourself at the end with no pages left.
At First Scoops, we believe that the goal of all books should be to make the reader keep wanting more from the very first chapter. Just like with ice cream—if you enjoy that first scoop, you’ll want the rest of the pint.
We’re here to review the first chapters of novels, be they on The New York Times Best Seller list, classics we’ve been hearing about since we were kids but never had a chance to read, or a random book we found while walking the aisles of our local library.
Join us on this literary tasting to see if after the first scoop, we want seconds.
Gwen thinks that it’s as close to magic as humans can get when a blank Word document is filled with groups of letters, and those groups of letters turn into lines, and those lines turn into a whole new world.
When Gwen isn’t reading or writing, she’s drinking boba milk tea and singing along to Steven Universe. You should sing along with her.