First Lines Friday (8/20/21)

Hello Lovely Readers!

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!

“I don’t need to dissect the bird to know how it died. I watched it fly straight into the mast moments ago, its limp body falling to the deck, its fragmented skull rattling beneath my fingers as I picked it up. But it’s death isn’t what interests me. I want to know how it lived.”

The book is….

I have had this book on my shelf since I received it in a Fairyloot box. It looks good and these first few lines are very intriguing!

Have you read this book? Do you want to read it?

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