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:
“Summer storms had a way of waking the house’s slumbering ghosts, drawing them out of the shadows and through locked doors forgotten decades ago.”
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s written by Alexandra Bracken.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s a YA fantasy.
The First Lines Friday book is:
The Mirror of Beasts
Title: The Mirror of Beasts
Author: Alexandra Bracken
Series: Silver in the Bone #2
Page Length: 576
Publication Date: July 30, 2024
Publisher: Hachette Children’s Group
Synopsis: With the dream of Avalon in ruins, Tamsin and her friends are all that stands in the way of Lord Death’s plans to unleash the horrors of Anwnn on the world of the living. As the Wild Hunt carves a bloody path across continents, Tamsin is mustering allies, tracking down powerful artifacts, and traversing into new otherlands in search of a way to stop him.
Legend tells of a “Mirror of Beasts,” powerful enough to trap even Lord Death in its accursed glass, but the mirror is not all that it seems. Tamsin must confront her own darkest secrets if she hopes to tap the mirror’s strength to defeat her enemies.
Arthurian legend bleeds into contemporary action, and scars of the past are torn open anew by a starcrossed love that refuses to go quietly. This riveting conclusion to the Silver in the Bone duology will hold you in its thrall until the very last page.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Did you guess correctly? What do you think of the first lines? Comment below!
Those are great lines! They had me very intrigued.
Definitely hooks you from the start!
Great first lines, but that’s one long book.