Welcome to my “First Lines Fridays” this is a weekly meme, that I first saw on Jill’s Book Blog and which is originally hosted by Wondering Words.
Rules:
- Choose a book from your shelves/current read
- Open the book to the first page
- Copy the first line on the page, making sure you don’t give away the book title
- Reveal the book.
FIRST LINES:
“My parents didn’t seem the sort of people who would end up killing someone. Everyone would say that – except the boy who dies, who isn’t saying anything. He carried his story with him off the edges of the earth, like the others who died along the way.”
Do you recognise which book these lines come from?
This weeks book is…
Synopsis/Blurb (Goodreads):
“Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in.
At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi.
And now that she’s an adult, Augusta has no interest in the goings-on of the small town where she lives with her parents and her beloved twin sister, Julia.
When an unspeakable tragedy upends everything in Augusta’s life, she’s propelled headfirst into the unknown. She’s determined to find where she belongs – but what if her true home, and heart, are half a world away?”
Have you read this book? How did you find it? Let me know down below.
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Should be an interesting read.. tempted to pick it up.
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It was really good!! Hope you enjoy it too if you do decide to pick it up. 🙂
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This sounds like such an interesting book! The first lines had me hooked. I wasn’t expecting a character such as Augusta to come of them. I’ve got to give this one a try!! 💙 Jen
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It was surprisingly good. I wasn’t to sure about it at first but all made sense by the end
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To me the first line sounds better than the synopsis. Still sounds like it could be an interesting read!
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The story is told through alternate points of views. It was an interesting read all makes sense in the end 🙂
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