First Lines Friday 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:
“A raven perched on my windowsill, and she wanted to talk.”
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s a new YA fantasy.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s written by F.T. Lukens.
The First Lines Friday book is:
Love at Second Sight
Title: Love at Second Sight
Author: F.T. Lukens
Page Length: 368
Pub. Date: April 29, 2025
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Synopsis: When a teen has an unexpected vision about a future murder, he must juggle newfound interest from the supernatural community with trying to prevent the murder from happening in this new romantic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author F.T. Lukens.
Tired of being known as the artsy oddball, fifteen-year-old Cam Reynolds hopes to fly under the radar when he changes high schools as a sophomore. It shouldn’t be too hard, considering he’s a human going to school with kids who have super-cool paranormal powers, like his best friend and witch, Al, and longtime werewolf crush, Miguel.
Then Cam has a psychic glimpse of the future in front of most of the student body, seeing a gruesomely murdered teen girl from the point of view of the killer. When Cam comes to, he knows two things: someone he goes to school with is a future murderer and his life is about to change. No longer a mere human but a clairvoyant, one of the rarest of supernatural beings, Cam finds himself at the center of attention for the first time.
As the most powerful supernatural factions in the city court Cam and his gift, he’ll have to work with his friends, both old and new, to figure out who he can trust. Because the clock is ticking, and Cam and his friends must identify the girl in the vision, find her potential killer, and prevent the murder from happening. Or the next murder Cam sees might be his own.
Oh! This is not the book I thought it’d be but I’m curious about it 👀 I love that cover, that was an intriguing first line, and I do enjoy Lukens’ books. I guess I’ll have to add this to my radar! 🤭
Yay! I hope you enjoy it if you get a chance to pick it up!