First Lines Friday – 20th August 2021

Hello!

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!

First Lines . . .

“The monster stood not a tongue’s length away, eyes fixed on our throats, shriveled brain crowded with fantasies of murder. Its hunger for us charged the air.”

This is a book from the first series I reviewed on this blog!

I have recently reviewed the fifth book in this series!

Today’s First Lines Friday book is . . .

A BOY WITH EXTRAORDINARY POWERS.

AN ARMY OF DEADLY MONSTERS.

AN EPIC BATTLE FOR THE FUTURE OF PECULIARDOM.

The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued with Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.

They’ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthe alleys of Devil’s Acre, the ost wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It’s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all. Like its predecessors, Library of Souls blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.

Read my review of Library of Souls here.

Did you guess this book by its first lines? Let me know in the comments!

Thank you for reading this post.

Hannah