First Line Fridays

First Line Fridays : 11/15/19

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-

July 1901

“Dorothy? Come help me, won’t you?” Grace Boisvert beckoned to her younger sister from the bathroom doorway. She wore an old brown flannel wrapper, and her long freshly washed hair dripped down her back. “Stop making all that noise or you’ll wake grand-mère.”

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Evergreen by Marissa Doyle

I won this book in a Librarything giveaway last month. The cover is quite autumnal and screams “Fall”! Though it’s basically winter weather now. Here is a summary grabbed from Goodreads–

It’s 1901—a brave new century—and seventeen-year-old Grace Boisvert thinks it’s high time to forget that she’s a dryad; being able to talk to trees just doesn’t seem very useful in the automobile age. A little hair dye to touch up her green roots, and she’s off to join her best friend Alice Roosevelt for a visit to glamorous Newport, RI, with her family’s warnings not to fall for any human boys ringing in her ears.

As it happens, the only interesting boy in Newport, Kit Rookwood, clearly prefers Alice to her. But that changes when he and his family unexpectedly follow them to a secluded Adirondack camp to join Alice’s family. Grace finds herself falling in love—and not just with the breathtaking forests.

But sometimes stern family warnings really should be heeded and ancient magical heritages not forgotten, especially when it turns out that not everything—and everyone—are quite what they seem…

Sounds cute. Thought I’d pick a lesser known and kind of random title this week. Thanks for checking out this week’s First Line Fridays and hope you enjoy the oncoming weekend. ~ Kitty

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5 thoughts on “First Line Fridays : 11/15/19”

  4. Ooh you also use LibraryThing? I’ve had some awesome books from there! Particularly ones I most likely wouldn’t have tried otherwise. I’m keen on giving this one a try. Romance and magic? What’s not to love about that? Great post Kitty Marie! Jen

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