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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6569393" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, everyone is different, of course.  However, I have found that, for the modern novel, the first chapter, page, paragraph, and sometimes even sentence, are not actually a bad measure for whether I'll like the book.  It may turn out to be nothing like I expected, but that initial grab tells me if the author has the chops to write prose good enough to keep me engaged.Some of my favorite First Sentence Test examples:"In the tower of the nameless necromancer, it is always cold."  Grunts, by Mary Gentle"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault." - Blood Rites, Jim ButcherWell, that kind of means we can't sell you on it, except perhaps accidentally, and that personal review is about the only way to choose, now doesn't it?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>