It’s been forever since I last participated in this meme, and I’m raring to go! Especially after my little spontaneous vacation from the blog.
First Line Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers (formerly) hosted by Wandering Words, but I saw it over at One Book More.
What if instead of judging a book by the cover, author or most everything else, we judged it by its content? Its first lines?
If you want to join in, all you gotta do is:
📚 Take a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open it 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!
Here are the first lines:
A girl is running for her life.
The summer air burns at her back, but there are no torches, no angry mobs, only the distant lanterns of the wedding party, the reddish glow of the sun as it breaks against the horizon, cracks and spills across the hills, and the girl runs, skirts tangling in the grass as she surges toward the woods, trying to beat the dying light.
Voices carry on the wind, calling her name.
Any guesses? I’ll give you a little hint…
Know what it is now? (And there’s a secret, second clue here too, BTW. I couldn’t resist…)
If you don’t, here are some lovely photographs of books to scroll through while you think about it…
Annnd the book is 🥁🥁… The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab!
(Were you able to guess it?)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
LENGTH: 444 pages
GENRES: Fantasy, Historical, Fiction
PUBLISHER: Tor Books
RELEASE DATE: 6 October 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.
France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever – and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
Before I end this post, I have a bit of a confession to make. I’ve never really been interested in reading this book. That’s why it was on my first Popular Books That I’ve Read Never post. I knew it was popular and well-loved, but I’ve never had any interest in it. But my mom really wants to buddy read it, so I’ve decided to give it a shot. Who knows, maybe I’ll love it!
As always, thank you to everyone so much for reading. I hope you all have an excellent day/night!
See ya ~Mar