First Line

[Khione]

Nice.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Once upon a time a man came from the sky and killed my wife.

Golden Son by Pierce Brown

[Khione]

Phrynne wrote: "Once upon a time a man came from the sky and killed my wife.

Golden Son by Pierce Brown"

Wow that sounds awful.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Great book though:)

[Khione]

Phrynne wrote: "Great book though:)"

Haha. Yeah.

[Liam || Books 'n Beards]

"When Lilia was four years old, her mother filled a shallow dish with Lilia's blood and fed it to the boars that patrolled the thorn fence." - The Mirror Empire

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Good one Liam:)

[Sally906]

I have just started reading A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco by Suzanna Clarke (an Aussie writer) it opens:

Maybe it was a fit of madness, but on just our second visit to the old Moroccan capital of Fez, my husband and I decided to buy a house there - as one does in a foreign country where you can't speak the language and have virtually nothing in common with the locals.

[★ Jess]

Not just the first sentence, but the first paragraph of Lolita.

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”


Wow.

[Carolyn]

Wow indeed Jess!

[Carolyn]

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

[Sally906]

I have been hanging out for the final book in the The Last Trilogy - the first 2 were 5 star reads for me!

The Last Place by Michael Adams Opens:

...That's me sprawled dead in the street, beneath the brown sky, amid dry bodies and dusty cars...

Almost 1/4 of the way through and is EDGE OF THE SEAT great!

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

The attendants came for him as a pair, as always. Some of them were kind and meant well. Some were frightened and, like first timers at a steer-branding, hid their fear in swearing and brutality.

A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale

[Suzanne]

The quiet whisper of death worked its way up Cassandra Kinkaid’s spine.

Outback Fever

[Sally906]

Ooooooooooo chilling start !

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Can't wait to read this one Suzanne!

[Suz]

There should have been a dark whisper in the wind.

Tell No One, by the delectable and my favourite, Harlan Coben.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

When she woke she thought she was blind.

The House of Thunder by Leigh Nichols who is really Dean Koontz

[Katie]

Sally906 wrote: "I have been hanging out for the final book in the The Last Trilogy - the first 2 were 5 star reads for me!

The Last Place by [author:Michael Ada..."

Just finished reading this today 5* The trilogy was excellent, great reads all three. Enjoy!

[Stef]

"It was a spring evening in Washington DC; a chilly autumn morning in Melbourne; it was exactly 22.00 Greenwich Mean Time when a worm entered the computerised control systems of countless Australian prisons and released the locks in many other places of incarceration, some of which the hacker could not have known existed."
Amnesia byPeter Carey

[Liam || Books 'n Beards]

"Sometimes, I worry that I'm not the hero everybody thinks I am." - Mistborn: The Final Empire

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

"The strike of a match can change a life."
Outback Flames by Suzanne Brandyn.

[Carolyn]

"They found him inside one of seventeen cauldrons in the courtyard, steeping in an indigo dye two shades darker than the summer sky."

Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

[Marianne]

Wow thats a good one!

[Leonie]

Carolyn wrote: ""They found him inside one of seventeen cauldrons in the courtyard, steeping in an indigo dye two shades darker than the summer sky."

Orhan's Inheritance by [author:Aline Ohanesian..."

That's a really neat first line :)

[Carolyn]

It is quite an opening!

[Sally906]

Was the body coloured to match? ;)

[Suz]

There are some great ones here aren't there?!

[Suz]

'My father explained it to me the first time when I was seven years old:The world is a system.'

Hide by Lisa Gardner

[K]

"On the day Emma Carstair's parents were killed, the weather was perfect."

[Suz]

"Sybil Davidson has a genius I.Q. and had been laid by at least six different guys."

Forever

I haven't thought of that phrase for such a long time!!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Suzanne wrote: ""Sybil Davidson has a genius I.Q. and had been laid by at least six different guys."

Forever

I haven't thought of that phrase for such a long time!!"

I think it went out when women's lib came in. It does make the woman sound like an object rather than an active party to the act:)

[Suz]

Yes very good point, Phrynne.

[Sally906]

Started new book today The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny WingfieldI like its opening: John Moses couldn't have chosen a worse way to die, if he'd planned it for a lifetime.

[Marianne]

That is a good one, Sally

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

"He had to run, and he fled with the boy out into the dark spaces between the stars"

The Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

They hung the Unregistereds in the old warehouse district; it was a public execution, so everyone went to see.

The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

[Suz]

"The roar in my skull sounds like waves battering a shore."

High Sobriety: my year without booze by Jill Stark.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

It's eleven o'clock in the morning, late September, and outside it's raining so hard that cows are floating down rivers and birds are resting on their bloated bodies.

Shatter by Michael Robotham

What a start!

[Carolyn]

"Will you forgive me if I tell you the ending?"

The Midnight Dress by Karen Foxlee

[Ryan]

"Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert."

God's War by Kameron Hurley

My wife was horrified.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Ryan wrote: ""Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert."

God's War by Kameron Hurley

My wife was horrified."

LOL!

[Marianne]

I was just checking if Crucifixion Creek (next in my TBR) would fit for my last book in the July challenge.

Starts off: "In south-western Sydney, on a chilly winter's night, a siege is in progress"

Excellent, perfect!

[Bronwyn]

"There was a place so tranquil that angels went there to rest."


Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise

[Chloe]

Oh I love first sentences in books!

"I can smell blood."

Hidden by Emma Kavanagh

[Sally906]

Just started reading Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs - the final in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children trilogy.

I love, love, LOVE it's opening line:
...The monster stood not a tongue’s length away, eyes fixed on our throats, shrivelled brain crowded with fantasies of murder...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Wow Sally, that's some opening!

[Leonie]

Sally906 wrote: "Just started reading Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs - the final in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children trilogy.

I love, ..."

Ooh, nice first line!

[Jude]

So many good first lines out there! Some of my favourites have already been mentioned above. I like this one for its complete obliviousness to what is to come:

"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

You could always tell when you were near a town from the bodies hanging on the gibbets by the main road, thought Sergeant Dodd.

A Plague of Angels by P.F. Chisholm