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:
“The trees were full of crows and the woods were full of madmen. The pit was full of bones and her hands were full of wires.”
Do you recognise the book these first lines come from?
*drumroll please!*
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself.
📖 KEEP READING…
Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning.
On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra’s family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.
Have you read Nettle & Bone or is it on your TBR?
dinipandareads 
I still need to read this one!
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Same here! I feel like I need to prepare myself for the scaries but the synopsis also makes this one sound okay in terms of scary levels. I hope you enjoy it 🙂
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I literally just started reading this last night so I totally should have gotten this but did I? Nope 😂
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Haha, this happens to me a lot as well 😂
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I have not read it, and it is not on my TBR, but that first line is definitely one that pulls a reader in. I hope you are loving it if you aren’t finished yet, Dini.
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