First Line Friday – May 5th, 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-

Dawn is breaking when she creeps from the house. The air is cool and fresh; birds are singing in the trees. Everywhere, the sound of the sea, the world’s greatest metronome, beating beneath a velvety sky of diminishing stars.

Any guesses?

“A riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia – where the truth isn’t what it seems.”

This one sounds pretty crazy. A paradise where people live heathy and happy until their health and mental wellbeing falls below 10%. When this happens, they are taken to “retirement”. This story is about a ferryman who shepherds these people through the process.. until his own monitor drops to 10%. Then, things get weird.

I’m planning to read this one this summer! It sounds fantastic!

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