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:
This is the first line of chapter one. I skipped the prologue because of profane language.
“A sizzling zap of electricity snaps directly over Zeus’s temple, and I flinch while the crowd oohs and ahhs.”
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s written by Abigail Owen.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It just released this month!
The First Lines Friday book is:
The Games Gods Play
Title: The Games Gods Play
Author: Abigail Owen
Series: The Crucible #1
Page Length: 592
Publisher: Red Tower Books
Publication Date: Sept. 3, 2024
Synopsis: Percy Jackson for adults meets The Hunger Games with a slow burn romance between a contestant and Hades himself.
Every hundred years, the gods toy with us mere mortals.
And we let them.
The gods of myth are alive and well.
Once every century, they select a new ruler in a cutthroat competition, pushing mortal players to the limit. But this year, Hades is done sitting on the sidelines. And he’s picking a champion no one expects—in this modern mythic romantasy, she’ll fight for her life…
for the god of Death.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Do you want to read The Games Gods Play? What do you think of the first line? Comment below!
