First Line Friday – March 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-

Alex approached Black Elm as if she were sidling up to a wild animal, cautious in her walk up the long, curving driveway, careful not to show her fear. How many times had she made this walk? But today was different. The house appeared through the bare branches of the trees, as if it had been waiting for her, as if it had heard her footsteps and anticipated her arrival. It didn’t crouch like prey. It stood, two stories of gray stone and peaked roofs, a wolf with paws planted and teeth bared. Black Elm had been tame once, glossy and preening. But it had been left on its own too long.

Any guesses?

Alex Stern #2 by Leigh Bardugo.

Dark academia novel and we’re going straight to hell.
When Leigh Bardugo writes well, she absolutely kills it. I cannot wait to get started on this one in March. It’s a chunker but I plan to have it done quickly by staying up past my bedtime every night.
Darlington, I hope Alex can save you – You’re too good to die.

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