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!
First Lines:
The sky crackles with color. Mafic jets in the air and explodes in mist and sizzling lights. The festival is in full swing. It’s loud. It’s blinding. And it’s the best thing I’ve seen in the past two months.
Do you recognize the lines?
Hint: It’s the second book in a YA fantasy duology.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s written by Dana Swift.
The First Lines Friday book is:
Bound by Firelight
About the Book:
Title: Bound by Firelight
Author: Dana Swift
Series: Wickery #2
Page Length: 448
Publication Date: Jan. 18, 2022
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Synopsis: After a magical eruption devastates the kingdom of Belwar, royal heir Adraa is falsely accused of masterminding the destruction and forced to stand trial in front of her people, who see her as a monster. Adraa’s punishment? Imprisonment in the Dome, an impenetrable, magic-infused fortress filled with Belwar’s nastiest criminals—many of whom Adraa put there herself. And they want her to pay.
Jatin, the royal heir to Naupure, has been Adraa’s betrothed, nemesis, and fellow masked vigilante . . . but now he’s just a boy waiting to ask her the biggest question of their lives. First, though, he’s going to have to do the impossible: break Adraa out of the Dome. And he won’t be able to do it without help from the unlikeliest of sources—a girl from his past with a secret that could put them all at risk.
Time is running out, and the horrors Adraa faces in the Dome are second only to the plot to destabilize and destroy their kingdoms. But Adraa and Jatin have saved the world once already. . . . Now, can they save themselves?
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository | My Review
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Have you read Bound By Firelight? What do you think of the first lines? Comment below!
Great first lines! Definitely makes me want to step in the book and see the festival~
Right! It’s so vivid and immersive.
Ooo this is fun! Definitely pulling some reads on my TBR list to do this with, god knows it’ll take me a minute to get to some of them
Nice! I can’t wait to see yours!
Great first lines! I loved this one. 😍
It was so good!!!