First Line Friday (1) Between by Jessica Warman

       First Line Friday is a bookish tag hosted over at Abstract Books that is used to showcase your favourite first lines of books.

       There really is something to be said about a good first line, and I'm going to be using this tag from now on to showcase my current read's first lines.

        Right now, I'm about halfway through Between by Jessica Warman. A book about a girl who discovers that she died on her 18th birthday and is now stuck wandering her town, observing her family and friends as they grieve.

       The first (few) lines of Between are as follows:

        "It's a little after two a.m. Outside the Elizabeth, things are relatively quiet. Boats--yachts, really--are tied to the docks, clean white buoys protecting their fiberglass and porcelain exteriors from the wood. The slosh of the Long Island Sound, water bearing against the boats and shore, is a constant in the background. In most of the other boats--with names like Well Deserved, Privacy, Good Life--There is peace.

 

        But inside the Elizabeth, there is persistent unrest."