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.
Today's First Line Friday is coming to you from The Poppy and the Rose by Ashlee Cowles. This book was published on October 6, 2020, but I was granted an ARC from Netgalley. I haven't gotten all the way through it yet, but I'm a little bit more than than halfway done, but the writing has had me hooked from the very first line. So with no further introduction, the first line is...
"A few months before the anti-aircraft missile took his life and forever changed mine, Dad and I played our favorite game"
I absolutely love this as a first line, because it puts you right in the calm before the storm that you already know is coming, which affectively hooked me right away.
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