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:
“Hex-A-Gone. The name didn’t quite inspire visions of magical greatness. It was a pun. A bad one but funnily apt for a local emergency on-call curse-breaker.”
Do you recognise the book these first lines come from?
*drumroll please!*
Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens
Can they stop hating each other long enough to fall in love?
Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of In Deeper Waters and So This Is Ever After.
📖 KEEP READING…
Edison Rooker isn’t sure what to expect when he enters the office of Antonia Hex, the powerful sorceress who runs a call center for magical emergencies. He doesn’t have much experience with hexes or curses. Heck, he doesn’t even have magic. But he does have a plan—to regain the access to the magical world he lost when his grandmother passed.
Antonia is…intimidating, but she gives him a job and a new name—Rook—both of which he’s happy to accept. Now all Rook has to do is keep his Spell Binder, an illegal magical detection device, hidden from the Magical Consortium. And contend with Sun, the grumpy and annoyingly cute apprentice to Antonia’s rival colleague, Fable. But dealing with competition isn’t so bad; as Sun seems to pop up more and more, and Rook minds less and less.
But when the Consortium gets wind of Rook’s Spell Binder, they come for Antonia. All alone, Rook runs to the only other magical person he knows: Sun. Except Fable has also been attacked, and now Rook and Sun have no choice but to work together to get their mentors back…or face losing their magic forever.
Have you read Spell Bound or is it on your TBR?
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That’s a great first line!
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Happy to say that the rest of the book is living up to the greatness of these first lines too 🙂
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I knew this one! I really loved this book.
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I’m a little over halfway through and ah, it’s SO cute. These two are so endearingly awkward, lol and I love the story 🙂
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I am not familiar with this book, but I always love a good pun
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I love it too!
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I knew this one! Love Spell Bound! That was the first book I read by the author, and I went and bought their other books as soon as I finished reading it.
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This is my second book by this author but I really enjoy their writing style and can’t wait to read more of their books 😍
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I did not get this one but the lines are great!
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I just finished this one this morning and loved it 🙂
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Great first lines! I was super intrigued after reading them, and then I saw that it’s a book already on my TBR. I might have to get to this one sooner rather than later.
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