I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.

First line—"It was far from silent in the dark wood."

Okay, that's a fabulous first line. What kind of creepiness can the reader expect after that line?

With a cover like this one has, the reader knows from the start that this story is going to be quite a page-turner. I think the cover is amazing, by the way. And The Child Garden was definitely a pager-turner for me.

I think this is one of the best lines in the book, and sort of sums of my thinking through the whole story. "The worst thing is not knowing who knows what." I'm not sure I ever felt comfortable with any of the characters and I never knew who to trust. I doubted everyone and everything. And I loved it!