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:
“The first snowfall of the season was a dangerous time for a ten-year-old girl to sleepwalk in the Forest Grimm.”
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s a new release.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s the second in a duology.
The First Lines Friday book is:
The Deathly Grimm
Title: The Deathly Grimm
Author: Kathryn Purdie
Series: The Forest Grimm #2
Page Length: 400
Pub. Date: March 25, 2025
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Synopsis: The story hasn’t ended yet.
After surviving the Forest Grimm and defeating the Wolf, Clara and Axel have made it back to their village, the one place they can be safe behind the forest’s borders. But when the forest itself begins luring in more villagers, it’s clear that Clara and Axel have only treated the symptoms of the forest’s curse, not the cause—and it’s getting worse.
Burdened with visions of the past and learning to navigate her fragile new relationship with Axel, Clara finds herself entering the forest with Axel yet again to discover the truth once and for all: the identity of the murderer who caused the curse. As they fight murderous woodsmen with incomprehensible riddles, ladies who will drag you into an eternal dance, and ghosts with the power to wield the forest against them, Clara and Axel realize the stakes are higher than ever. If they don’t survive the dark, deadly twists of the forest once more, not only will they never escape, they may also no longer have a home to escape to.
Romantic, eerie, and beautiful, The Deathly Grimm is the triumphant conclusion to Kathryn Purdie’s bestselling Forest Grimm duology.
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Have you read The Deathly Grimm? What do you think of the first lines? Comment below!
Ooh, I thought I knew what this was but I didn’t! It sounds great! 😍
I knew this one right away. I hope to listen to this one tomorrow on my drive, at least part of it.