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!
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Happy Friday readers!
January is going by so quickly for me, what about all of you? If you’re interested, I’m hosting a fun January reading challenge over on my Instagram and throughout the entire year filled with fun themes and exciting activities. Right now is all about Historical Romance in the Regency Era and coming up soon in February I’ll be focusing on thrillers. One of my big goals for 2025 is to surround myself with a strong book community that wants to have fun while exploring books they might never have given a chance before.
Wishing you all a safe and happy Friday!
Now onto FIRST LINES FRIDAY!
In the dimly lit dining room of the Bull and George inn, Dartford, Jane wrings her hands and paces. It takes thirteen steps to travel the narrow space between trestle tales, pushed up against bow-fronted windows, to the inglenook fireplace at the rear of the smoke-filled room. The distance is not enough to dispel the nervous energy from her limbs, forcing her to turn and begin again. Bunches of dried hops, suspended from worm eaten beams, brush her forehead as she passes. The crisp flowers snap against her bonnet, dispensing flecks of broken petals ono the shoulders of her tawny pelisse. “I can hardly believe this has happened.” She presses her forehead to the smeared glass.
First Lines Friday reveal…….
Miss Austen Investigates: A Fortune Most Fatal by Jessica Bull
Available March 25, 2025
A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid sleuth—the second installment in the Miss Austen Investigates series.
1797: A broken-hearted Jane Austen travels to Kent to look after her brother Neddy’s children and further her writing. She soon realizes it’s imperative she uncovers the true identity of a mysterious young woman claiming to be a shipwrecked foreign princess before the interloper can swindle Neddy’s adoptive mother out of her fortune and steal the much-anticipated inheritance all the Austens rely on.
Looking for book recs…
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