first lines friday

First Lines Friday #77


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
  • Finally… reveal the book!

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Hello, reader!

I’m back on my BS, which means I’m back to one of my favorite posts: First Lines Friday! I’m a sucker for a good guessing game, what can I say? Now, the book I’m featuring today is one that I recently started reading because I enjoyed a previous book from the author. So far, I’m having a lot of fun with it and, now, I’m hoping I can get you to read it by luring you with the first few lines.

Let’s see if my plan will work!


The Line(s):

“There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother’s house. As omens go, it doesn’t get much more obvious than that.”


The Build Up:


The Reveal:

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