INFAMOUS FIRST WORDS

Every year the Bulwer Lytton awards celebrate the worst first lines of unwritten books. We love this winner in the Romance category.

It seemed fair to say that her werewolfism was putting a strain on their relationship, the way she had earned the ire of the neighbors by devouring their pets and howling far past the bedtimes of their children, but bring it up to her, and she’d just snarl, “Why do you keep harping on this?” around a mouthful of the Smiths’ cat.