First Lines Fridays: April 15th, 2016
It’s #FirstLinesFriday! Woohoo! Today’s first line comes from an oldie but a goodie and just so happens to be from my favorite YA series of all time…intrigued?
Each week we will pick a YA or NA book from our shelves and copy the first line, in an attempt to acquaint you with some new reads or reintroduce you to old favorites. We will have an accompanying Instagram pic to go along with our choices each week so check out #firstlinesfridays!
First Lines Fridays 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? If you want to join the meme be sure to check out Wandering Words, and here are her rules below.
The rules:
- Pick a book off your shelf (or your current read) 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!
“I am an hourglass.”
Aaannnddd, the book is Ignite Me (Shatter Me #3) by Tahereh Mafi! Here is the rest of the paragraph:
My seventeen years have collapsed and buried me from the inside out. My legs feel full of sand and stapled together, my mind overflowing with grains of indecision, choices unmade and impatient as time runs out of my body. The small hand of the clock taps me at one and two, three and four whispering hello, get up, stand up it’s time to
wake up
wake up
“Wake up,” he whispers.
Tahereh has a poetic way with words and the opening line to Ignite Me (my favorite in the series) is no exception. This series is firmly my #1 favorite YA of ALL time. That’s a lofty statement but it’s true. This book absolutely slayed me and cemented Tahereh as my favorite author. I still get chills every time I read this one.
