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!

For today’s First Line Friday post, I’m pulling another book from my library stack! This one is a sequel to a book I read last year on a lark because it just sounded like a good time. I ended up enjoying it, so I decided to pick this one up when I saw it was out! It’s a translated work and, hopefully, we’ll be just as much of a thrill as the first one.

Now, let’s see if the first line can draw us in!