First Lines Fridays is 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?
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!
Without further ado, here is the first line-
I had three brothers once. Finlei was the oldest-the brave one. Nothing frightened him, not spiders or needles or a flogging from Baba’s cane. He was the quickest of us four children, fast enough to catch a fly with only his thumb and a thimble.
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Spin The Dawn by Elizabeth Lim (Amazon Link)
I happened to have this book still close at hand. The opening line doesn’t do much to reveal the contents within or the premise, but several people have read this newer release in the last couple of months. This is one I’m confident a few people will be able to guess out.
Thanks as always for checking in to this week’s First Line Fridays! Hoping everyone has a great and fun (and/or relaxing) weekend. ~ Kitty
Kitty Marie's Reading Corner 
I KNEW THAT LINE! LOL 🙂
Sorry- I always get excited when I recognize the line off the bat 🙂 Good choice!
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I’m so glad you got it! 😀 ❤ I just knew it would be a relevant choice for a lot of people.
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LOL- I have to make those choices more- I tend to go the ARC route to see if I can drum up interest for books that look good– but I should go more backlist… 🙂
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It’s a marvelous opening scene, Kitty. And the cover is gorgeous too — thanks for including that. I love this idea for a post. Hugs on the wing!
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Thanks a bunch, I am glad you enjoyed this post. And much agreed, Spin The Dawn’s cover is so wonderful!
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I love reading these posts but honestly the only first lines I probably know off by heart are HP & the Philosopher’s Stone and Pride & Prejudice 😂
💛 Ngoc
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to be honest I never remember any first lines unless a character’s name is mentioned in the first line, that is if I remember the character’s name haha. 😂
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Great line!
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Yes I got this one right!
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Yay! Very glad I chose it for this week.
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Ooh I really want to read this 😀 The cover is stunning! You don’t get much info from the first few lines but it has a lyrical flow and that’s always promising! Jen
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Much agreed on the cover, and it is indeed strongly written, you’ll most likely enjoy it if the first line caught your eye. Thanks for your thoughts. ❤
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okay that’s it, i need to read this book like right NOW
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Would love to read your review if/when you do. 😀
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