First Line Friday – February 3rd, 2023

First Line Friday 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?

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!

-The First Lines-

It’s a curious thing, to watch a town fall to the dead.
Usually, you only discover a place that’s been overrun after the fact: hollowed-out buildings full of shamblers, broken windows marked with the blood of fleeing occupants, scattered ephemera, cups and combs and bottles, the small things that people drop in the midst of headlong flight. It’s an eerie sight, the aftermath of a shambler attack, but it’s an echo of the horrors, not the actual carnage.

Any guesses?

The second historical fiction installment from Justina Ireland that continues the tale of what happened after the end of the Civil War… after the Zombies came. It’s told from the point of view of Jane McKeene in a world where racism is everywhere and zombies aren’t the only threat. Check it out on Goodreads… book #1 is called Dread Nation.

This title has been on my bookshelf since December 2021. I will try to get to it this year! Maybe I can manage it for the month of February, since it’s Black History Month!

| Join me on Goodreads |

Don’t miss a thing, sign up to get new blog posts sent directly to you!