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?
- 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!
Are you ready?
Do you know this one?
Need a hint?
The author is well known…
and writes lots of science fiction….
And fantasy….
For both adults and young adults…
Give up?
Here it is!
Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul.
I have had this one sitting on my shelf since it first came out and I still haven’t picked it up and read it yet. I keep telling myself soon.
So did you guess this one? Have you read it yet?
Confessions of a Serial Reader 
Very interesting first line! Sounds like it would be an exciting book.
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I hope so. Some day I might get around to reading it.😊
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