First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers. What if we judged a book by its opening line?
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 Line:
When Gwen woke up, she knew she’d had the dream again and that she’d been loud. She knew she’d had the dream because she was feeling exhilarated, loose-limbed and a little flushed in the face; she knew she’d been vocal about it because Agnes, the dark-haired lady-in-waiting who slept in the adjoining chamber, kept biting her lip to keep from laughing and wouldn’t look her in the eye.
Did you get it? The Book is….