First Lines Friday / General Books

#FirstLinesFriday: 18 August 2023

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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:

“Hello, children. It’s time for Death.
Oh, you didn’t think I spoke? I’m fantastically verbose, and transcendently literate, and quite frankly, I’m disappointed you would think otherwise.”

Do you recognise the book these first lines come from?

*drumroll please!*

Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

This book is about a real estate agent. Only the real estate agent is a vampire, the house she has to sell is haunted – and the ghost haunting the house was murdered.

📖 KEEP READING…

When Viola Marek seeks out Fox D’Mora to help her with her ghost-infested mansion, she expects a competant medium. Unbeknownst to Viola, Fox is a fraud – even if he is the godson of Death.

As the mystery unfolds, Viola and Fox are drawn into a quest that neither of them want or expect. And they’ll need the help of an unruly poltergeist, a demonic personal trainer, a sharp-voiced angel, and a love-stricken reaper. Caught in a supernatural conundrum, Vi and Fox discover the difference between a mysterious lost love and a dead body isn’t nearly as distinct as they thought.

From the no.1 internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Masters of Death by Olivie Blake is a gripping, page-turning fantasy.

Have you read Masters of Death or is it on your TBR?

22 thoughts on “#FirstLinesFriday: 18 August 2023”

  10. I am very much behind on Olivie Blake’s books!! I only have myself to blame despite loving her writing enough that she’s a rare auto-buy author for me. I have this one on the way from Illumicrate, I believe. I was going to buy the standard edition because hello green cover, then there was a nice surprise special edition announcement bundled with One For My Enemy (I think…I ordered it some time ago, lol).

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    • Okay, so, confession time! I’ve still never read Olivie Blake’s books. I’ve read her YA contemporary as Alexene Farol Follmuth but I’ve never read her as Olivie Blake! I do have almost all of her books (except for TAS books) on my digital and physical shelves though 😂 I’ve heard a lot of great things about her books though! I didn’t know Illumicrate did an edition for this but I bet it’s gorgeous 😍 I hope you enjoy this and all the others you haven’t read yet whenever you read them!

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