First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? If you want to make your own post, feel free to use or edit the banner above, and follow the rules below:
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first (I cheat a little bit here *cough*)
- Finally… reveal the book!
If you’re using Twitter, don’t forget to use #FirstLinesFridays!
Hello, reader!
Happy Friday to y’all! I hope everyone has had a decent week and, if not, will be able to recover this weekend. I have to work, but the fact that the sun has decided to reappear in New England has me in a good mood. The book that I’m featuring in this week’s First Lines Friday has also put me in a good mood because I am loving it! To the point that I’m starting to ignore my other reads because I just want to lose myself in this story, haha.
The first few lines certainly captured my interest. Now let’s see if they have the same effect on you!
The Line(s):
“Reginald Gatling’s doom found him beneath an oak tree, on the last Sunday of a fast-fading summer.”
The Hints:
This historical fantasy was released in 2021.
It is the first book in a series.
Illumicrate did a stunning special edition of it that is almost too pretty to read.
Kerri McBookNerd 