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!

This is my first post with First Line Fridays and I just thought that it sounded like a bit of fun today. Wandering Words doesn’t actually seem to participate in this any longer but it was still created by and hosted by them. Lets give this a shot.  Continue reading →