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:
“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.
And I lost about a year of my life and much of the comfort and security I had not valued until it was gone.”
Do you recognise the book these first lines come from?
*drumroll please!*
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave.
📖 KEEP READING…
When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he’s drowning. She saves his life – and it will happen again and again.
Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them.
And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it’s even begun.
Have you read Masters of Death or is it on your TBR?
dinipandareads 
I definitely didn’t know this one! But those are very intriguing first lines.
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I don’t know why I didn’t expect the book to start this way but it’s definitely intriguing!
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Now I need to read more!!! lol Great first lines.
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I felt the same way! I feel like I need to properly gear myself up to read this one though 😂
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Intriguing first lines and interesting blurb, too!
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I’ve had this one on my TBR for ages now. I really need to get on it!
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Great first lines, it has been on my radar for a long while. Even more curious about it now.
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