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 Line:
Yadriel wasn’t technically trespassing because he’d lived in the cemetery his whole life.
Do you recognize the lines?
Hint: It’s published in 2020.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s written by Aiden Thomas.
The First Lines Friday book is:
Cemetery Boys
About the Book:
Title: Cemetery Boys
Author: Aiden Thomas
Page Length:344
Publication Date: Sept. 1, 2020
Publisher: Swoon Reads
Synopsis: A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas’s paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as “groundbreaking.”
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.
However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He’s determined to find out what happened and tie off some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository
Have you read Cemetery Boys? What do you think of the first line?
I guessed it! I haven’t read it but it does sound interesting.