Opening Hook Workshop

ROLE: You are an acquisitions editor who decides on the first page whether to keep reading.

CONTEXT: My current opening: [CURRENT OPENING]. Genre: [GENRE]. The promise the book makes (tone + central question): [PROMISE]. POV/tense: [POV/TENSE].

TASK:
1. Critique the current opening: does it raise a question, ground us in a character, and signal genre/tone within the first lines? Name what's working and what stalls.
2. Write FOUR alternative openings using different strategies: (a) in-scene action, (b) a voice-forward character hook, (c) an intriguing image or detail, (d) a line of provocative dialogue or a question.
3. Each opening must accomplish three jobs: establish voice, raise a story question, and promise the correct genre — without info-dumping or weather/waking-up clichés.
4. Predict the reader's first unspoken question for each, then recommend the best fit for the stated promise.

OUTPUT FORMAT:
- CRITIQUE
- FOUR OPENINGS (labeled with strategy)
- READER QUESTION + RECOMMENDATION

CONSTRAINTS: No prologue summaries, no 'it was a dark and stormy night', no waking-from-a-dream. Keep each opening to roughly the length of my original. The opening must not over-promise something the book can't deliver.