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:
It asked my father, once, why he chose to curse us before we were born. Because to be born as my siblings and I were was to be doomed from the start.
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s a new release by Veronica Roth.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It has major Antigone vibes.
The First Lines Friday book is:
Arch-Conspirator
About the Book:
Title: Arch-Conspirator
Author: Veronica Roth
Page Length: 128
Publication Date: Feb. 21, 2023
Publisher: Tor Books
Synopsis: Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end.
Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but Antigone’s parents were murdered, leaving her father’s throne vacant. As her militant uncle Kreon rises to claim it, all Antigone feels is rage. When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well as a guest.
But her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. And neither is he.
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Did you guess correctly? What do you think of the first lines? Comment below.
Oooh this is a great first line! Really intrigued to see what you think of this one Julie 😊
I haven’t heard of this one! It does have a very intriguing first line!
I haven’t heard of this book before but it sounds so interesting! I don’t think I’ve come across any retellings of Antigone before
Me either. Such an interesting premise!!
I didn’t guess this correctly at all lol. But the first line felt so familiar to me for some reason.
Ooooh, this sounds really interesting!
Right! I’ve never read an Antigone retelling. Intriguing!
Intriguing first lines for sure. Curious to see what you think of this one. I haven’t read anything by Roth since the Divergent series.
I haven’t either. Fingers crossed!
Ooh, I’d not heard of this one before but those are some great first lines! I hope you enjoy it 😃
Thank you! 🙂