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
Lines
“Are you all right?” The voice was tinny in Adina’s ears. Her head ached, and she was wet. She remembered the plane pitching and falling, the smoke and screams, the panic, and then nothing. “Am I dead?” she asked the face looming over hers. The face had apple cheeks and was framed by a halo of glossy black curls. “No.” “Are you dead?” Adina asked warily. The face above her shook from side to side, and then burst into tears. Adina relaxed, reasoning that she had to be alive, unless the afterlife was a lot more bipolar than she’d been led to believe. She pulled herself to a sitting position and waited for the wooziness to subside. A gash on her knee was caked in dried blood. Another on her arm still seeped. Her dress was ripped and slightly scorched and she wore only one shoe. It was one half of her best pair, and in her state of shock, finding the other became important. “Can you help me find my shoe?”
And The Book Is…
Alex
Mybookworld24 
Its funny the things that you fixate on (in this case a missing shoe) when in a state of shock.
Enjoyed your First Line. I am however put off by the cover … I know never judge a cover and all that but this one really doesn’t appeal.
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You can’t win them all 🙂
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