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…
” Somewhere else, in a room shadowed by age and death, a man readies himself to look into the future for what may be the last time.”
Do you know this one?
It is the second book by one of my favorite authors…
It was first published in 1994 and recently revised and published again…
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
The City of Bones by Martha Wells
I had no idea that Martha Wells has been publishing books for so long! She describes this as a “secondary world post-magical-apocalypse-ecological-disaster with a nonhuman main character, a fantasy on the edge of science fiction, gim and dark but not grimdark, with steam technology but not steampunk, weird but not new weird.” How could I pass up a book with that kind of description? I hope to get to it soon.
Confessions of a Serial Reader 