Happy Friday book lovers! We’re back with another First Lines Friday, 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? Here are the rules:
- 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:
“My parents didn’t seem the sort of people who would end up killing someone. Everyone would say that – except the boy who died, who isn’t saying anything. He carried his story with him off the edges of the earth, like the others who died along the way. This story, my story, belongs to them too.”

Do you recognize the book these first lines come from?








*drumroll please!*


Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in.
At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi.
And now that she’s an adult, Augusta has no interest in the goings-on of the small town where she lives with her parents and her beloved twin sister, Julia.
When an unspeakable tragedy upends everything in Augusta’s life, she’s propelled headfirst into the unknown. She’s determined to find where she belongs – but what if her true home, and heart, are half a world away?
I honestly can’t remember when I added The Other Half of Augusta Hope to my Kindle library. I didn’t even remember what it was about until I pasted the synopsis from GR above. That said, it sounds really good and I’m digging those first lines. You can definitely say that my curiosity is piqued!

Have you read The Other Half of Augusta Hope or is it on your TBR?

I don’t think I have heard of this one. It looks really good though!
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I have never heard of this book, but I have to say after reading those first lines I may have to add it to my TBR.
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Ooo! Creepy! I love that line!
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I haven’t heard of this one, but I’m intrigued by that first line and synopsis. I’ll be anxious to hear what you think if you pick it up soon. 🙂
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You piqued my curiosity, too!
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Hella what? That completely sounds like my kinds book…. That is AMAZING.
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wow, that’s one heck of a creepy start to a novel!
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That line is kind of creepy… I am adding this book to my TBR right now!!!!
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I haven’t read this one but it’s got some great first lines!
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Whoa, great first lines! Sounds so creepy but interesting! 😀
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