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!
How has everyone’s week been? I haven’t read much at all this week due to current world events. There is so much going on for people around the world right now that my attentions are pulled in that direction.
But even so, I did start The Rushworth Family Plot last night and I am really enjoying the classic feel this book has. You’ll see in the first lines below that it is reminiscent of Jane Austen and other classic writers.
Enjoy and have a safe weekend!
~ Ashley
Now onto FIRST LINES FRIDAY!
Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley traveled but seldom to London. This distinguished him from many of his peers, who had a greater appetite than he for the social offerings of the city and a stronger desire to display their wealth and standing. Even more noteworthy was the fact that, when Mr. Darcy did make one of his trips to this great city, he invariably did so in the company of his family – namely his wife, Elizabeth, and whichever of his three sons was not then required at school.
First Lines Friday reveal…….
The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray
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The fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray’s Jane Austen sequel series, which finds amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney caught up in the whirlwind of the London Season—and in a murderous scheme involving the family of Edmund and Fanny Bertram
Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney understand each other perfectly; it’s a pity their families do not. A series of misunderstandings, misplaced pride, and—indeed—prejudice, has led their parents to deem the pair unsuited to wed. Now, with the Season approaching, Juliet’s grandfather, General Tilney, has sent her to London with a new wardrobe and orders to prove herself worthy of someone better than the snobby Darcys. Meanwhile, Jonathan has been forced to accept an invitation to stay in town with old friends Edmund and Fanny Bertram at the house of Edmund’s brother, Sir Thomas. Oblivious to and undesiring of female attention outside of Juliet’s, Jonathan is at risk of being ensnared by Caroline Bingley’s previously rebuffed plans to make herself—or her daughter—mistress of Pemberley.
But when Mr. Rushworth, the former husband of Edmund’s sister Maria, is discovered dead in his home, Jonathan and Juliet find themselves with problems far weightier than the marriage market. In one of the greatest scandals of its day, Maria abandoned her new husband in favor of the notorious rake Henry Crawford, and when he wouldn’t marry her, was forced to flee to the continent in disgrace. Now Maria is back, accompanied by a daughter she claims Mr. Rushworth fathered after their divorce—and who he wrote into his will just before his death. To spare Edmund and Fanny further social shame, Jonathan and Juliet must unmask a killer before the drama surrounding the Rushworth family fortune claims another victim.
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