You've Got Five Pages, The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart, to Tell Me You're Good.

The first chapter can make or break a reader's engagement with a story. We as writers must craft brilliant opening pages in order to hook those picky readers, so let's study the stories of others to see how they do it! The first chapter of The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart starts with some beautifully dangerous prose, and when time-jumping is part of the protagonist's universe, we know we'll have to constantly question what's real and not, what's present and what's not. What will you make of these first five pages? Let's find out!