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.

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

” My English teacher, Mr. Davies, rubs a hand over his military buzz cut.”

On The Come Up by Angie Thomas

“I might have to kill somebody tonight.”

In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

” In a house, on a street, in a town ordinary enough in every aspect to cross over its own roots and become remarkable, there lived a girl named Katherine Victoria Lundy. “

Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows by J.M Bergen

” ‘Four? What? Uh, uh,’ said Enrique”

Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller

“The sound of my knife slitting across a throat feels much too loud in the darkness.”

Dragonwatch by Brandon Mull

“Could this be the end?”