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 Line:
“Joan Greenwood’s grand homecoming was ruined by the fact that no one remembered to show up.”
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s a new fantasy.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s written by A.M. Kvita.
The First Lines Friday book is:
An Unlikely Coven
Author: A.M. Kvita
Series: Green Witch Cycle #1
Page Length: 379
Publisher: Orbit
Synopsis: The outcast daughter of a powerful family of witches returns home to New York City and is immediately embroiled in a supernatural power struggle in this wickedly funny fantasy debut from AM Kvita.
After seven long years Joan Greenwood is finally returning home. Unfortunately, her family totally forgot about it.
Joan’s homecoming is lukewarm at best, but soon turns disastrous when news hits that someone has created a spell that can turn an ordinary human into a powerful witch, threatening the balance of the magical world and the Greenwood’s place at the top of it.
When her best friend confesses that he has secretly, accidentally, saved this human-turned-witch from an uncertain fate, Joan is thrust headfirst into a desperate race to undo the spell before it does permanent damage to its unwilling host.
Soon, Joan finds herself drawn deeper into the heart of the city’s magic, into an uncertain alliance with a (very attractive) family rival, and far beyond the limits of everything she thought her own magic capable of.
Did you guess correctly? What do you think of the first line? Comment below!
That’s a great first line and hook. It immediately pulls at the sympathy strings, making you invested in the story and main character from the get-go. Adding this to my TBR.
Yay! I hope you love it if you get a chance to read it.