I decided that it would be fun to start a new feature; first lines to add the the wrap up of books I read every month. For me most of the time I pick up and look at books in the store it is the first lines that capture my attention and draw me in. It has always been intriguing to me the amount of thought that must go into those first words the author decides to but as the introduction to their work. The first lines are your first impression of the book.

« The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee
“There has always been something otherworldly about the first snow of the year in New York.”
» Grip of the Shadow Plague by Brandon Mull
“On a muggy August day, Seth hurried along a faint path, eyes scanning the lush foliage to his left.”
« What If Its Us by Adam Silvera & Becky Albertalli
“I am not a New Yorker, and I want to go home.”
» The Beast is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale
“Way back in the beginning, there were two sisters.”
« Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary by Brandon Mull
“Kendra Sorenson briskly scrapped the head of a wooden match against the rough strip on the side of the rectangular matchbox.”
» Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
” Every body has a story and a history.”
« Night by Elie Wiesel
“If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one.”
» The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan 
“My nightmare started like this.”
« Turtles All the Way Down by John Green 
“At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the North side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time-between 12:37pm and 1:14 pm- by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them.”