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!

If you’re sharing on social media, don’t forget to use #FirstLinesFridays!

Hello, reader!

We’ve made it to the end of a snowy week here in New England and it’s time for another First Lines Friday! I’m pulling myself back into reading mode after an intense Stardew Valley sojourn, which is still going but is less… all-consuming. To help with that, I recently read the first few lines of a few books on my TBR to help pick what I want to crack open next. The book I’m featuring definitely blew the other contenders out of the water!

Let me share the first few lines to see if they pull you in, as well.