First Lines Friday: April 16, 2021

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?

• 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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First Lines:

There’s a mangy dog crouched beneath the second-to-last vegetable cart. As a rule, I avoid mangy dogs. Especially ones with bloodshot eyes and a clearly infected paw. But this is a sad-looking creature, its narrow face streaked with mud and its coat thinned to almost nothing over its ribs, skin scaly and pink below the grime.

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Do you recognize the lines?

Hint: It’s the second book in a series.

Still not sure? Here’s another hint: 

It’s written by Intisar Khanani.

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The First Lines Friday book is:

The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani

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Series: Dauntless Path #2

Page Length: 528

Publisher: Harper Teen

Synopsis: I did not choose this fate. But I will not walk away from it.

Children have been disappearing from across Menaiya for longer than Amraeya ni Ansarim can remember. When her friend’s sister is snatched, Rae knows she can’t look away any longer – even if that means seeking answers from the royal court, where her country upbringing and clubfoot will only invite ridicule.

Yet the court holds its share of surprises. There she discovers an ally in the foreign princess, who recruits her as an attendant. Armed with the princess’s support, Rae seeks answers in the dark city streets, finding unexpected help in a rough-around-the-edges street thief with secrets of his own. But treachery runs deep, and the more Rae uncovers, the more she endangers the kingdom itself.

LINKS:     Goodreads   |        Amazon    |      Book Depository

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This sounds like such an amazing series, and I’m in love with the cover!!! Have you read The Theft of Sunlight yet? What do you think of the first lines? Comment below!