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!
This week’s pick is from a book that just came out yesterday. I preorder a copy of the ebook and I can’t wait to read it. I am going to save it though until closer to Christmas as it is a holiday book.
Got it? Okay let’s go! Here is the quote…
“We are dead things, you and I”
Do you know this one?
Doesn’t start off like a Christmas book!
Sounds more like a Halloween book!
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
Ring The Bells
Christmas. It’s the most magical time of the year, but nobody ever said that was a good thing.
When a well-meaning book group turned witches coven attempt to perform a ritual of peace, they get a whole load of anything but. Meet Zalas, a chaos-loving old god who is the reason a university librarian apparently slaughtered the rest of her book group. The Stranger Times is hot on his trail, but it’s hard to track down a being that can pass from person to person just by touch. And contact with this demonic visitor leaves his unwitting hosts bewildered and, more often than not, covered in blood. The team are trying to track him down and also trace the mysterious book that was used inadvertently to summon him. It seems the book group were unwitting patsies, but who would benefit by unleashing a force of sheer chaos?
Someone is coming to town and he certainly isn’t jolly. Can The Stranger Times crew save not just Christmas but possibly the entire world as well?
This is the fifth book in the Stranger Times series and I am so looking forward to reading this one. I am sure it will be just as fun as the others and will be a perfect way to start off the holiday season.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 