First Lines Friday

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!

Got it? Okay let’s go! Here is the quote…

“The darkness bled into itself — no beginning, no end. I floated, buoyant on a tide of salt water. Above me, the night sky had blackened– moon and stars masked by heavy, water-laden clouds that never receded.”

Do you know this one?

It is a new release this month….

The sequel to a popular book from last year…

Have you guessed?

Yes? No?

Give up?

Here it is!