First Sentence Challenge

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It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure.

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uhh, never read this book. I'm pretty sure I've never heard of it before because I don't know what the Consortium is...

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Idil [ when nothing goes right, go left ] wrote: "uhh, never read this book. I'm pretty sure I've never heard of it before because I don't know what the Consortium is..."

HINT: Its the first book in a trilogy. The Author also wrote Before I fall

[BLT]

Is it delerium?

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Cleo wrote: "Is it delerium?"

Yup, ur turn

[BLT]

“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”

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The Kiss of Deception

[BLT]

yes!

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Christine, it's your turn now :D

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Oh ok.

I flinch. The rag she gives me is clean, but it still smells like blood.

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Huh, don't remember reading this...

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It just came out recently around February I think.

[Madelyn]

Glass Sword?

[[deleted user]]

Yes

[Madelyn]

"I first discovered I was trash three days before my ninth birthday--one year after my father lost his job and moved to Seacaucus to live with a woman named Crystal and four years before my mother had the car accident, started taking pills, and began exclusively wearing bedroom slippers instead of normal shoes."

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Dorothy must die

[Madelyn]

Yes!

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Okay um. one moment

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I suppose a lot of teenagers feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear

[Madelyn]

Oh, I don't know if I am familiar with that...

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Um, its a rather long series by an author (female) and the main character is a girl. (first book's sentence)

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I don't think I know that book either.

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Ok, every heard of Ally Carter?

[Madelyn]

OH I THINK I READ PART OF THIS AT THE LIBRARY!

I think it is I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You...?

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YES!!! UR TURN

[Madelyn]

Let me just find a book...

[Madelyn]

"Later, when memory was all she had to sustain her, she would come to cherish it: Old Honolulu as it was then, as it would never be again"

[Madelyn]

This may be hard, but I don't know...

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Jessie Hearts NYC

[Madelyn]

Nope

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Molakai

(I cheated :) just searched the sentence. sorry :) )

[Madelyn]

It's fine! I thought it would be a somewhat difficult one but that was the only book near me and I didn't want to get up :)

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I know lol

Okay. um ugh cant think of any!!

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I'm told that the day I was born, Uncle Paolo held me against his white lab coat and whispered, "She is perfect"

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Thank God for the book previews on Goodreads lol

[Madelyn]

I know :)

[Madelyn]

Oh, I think I have seen this book, I just was too lazy to read it!

Is it Origin??

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Yep. ur turn

[Madelyn]

Ok. Let me find something...

[Madelyn]

"The day I almost died, the sky was a bright, brilliant blue--a nice change from the rain earlier in the week."

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Um, If I stay?

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Word Nerd? nah

[Madelyn]

Yes, it was Word Nerd :)

[[deleted user]]

oh ok

give me a min



First the colors.

Then the humans.

That’s usually how I see things.

Or at least, how I try.

Ok, what? Who? What???

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Is that the book thief? I don't know, I guessed, for some reason it reminded of the book...

[Madelyn]

Is it Shatter Me?

[Madelyn]

But I think it could also be the Book Theif

[BLT]

Yes it's the book thief I checked my copy :)

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Madelyn wrote: "But I think it could also be the Book Theif"

book thief

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Idil [ when nothing goes right, go left ] wrote: "Is that the book thief? I don't know, I guessed, for some reason it reminded of the book..."

Idil got it!