First Line Friday – May 12th, 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-

Apocalypses always kick off at the witching hour.
That’s something you know now.
It makes sense, if you think about it. An apocalypse, by its nature, is kind of doomy and gloomy. The best time for gathering energy for that kind of working is when you’re in the deepest, darkest, coldest part of the night. That time of stillness between, oh, two in the morning and dawn. There’s a lot of names for that time of night. The witching hour. The hour of the wolf. The dead of night. I could go on and on, because we all have names for it.
But they’re talking about the same time. The hour when you sit up in bed, sweating from nightmares. The hour when you stare at the clock, willing yourself to sleep, knowing it isn’t going to happen, and weariness and despair beat upon the doors to the vaults of your mind with leaden clubs.
That’s when an apocalypse begins: the witching hour.
And I was charging straight into one as fast as I could.

Any guesses?

I’ve been slowly reading through The Dresden Files for a couple of years now, and I’m really bummed that I’m this close to being caught up… I only have Battle Ground and The Law to go. It’s been a long, wonderful trip. I feel like Harry and I are close friends who have been through hell together.

I never want it to end.

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