First Lines Fridays 29th August 2025 | Jo Linsdell

First Lines Fridays 29th August 2025

     

First Lines Fridays


Books: First Lines Fridays 29th August 2025

First Lines Fridays – 29th August 2025: Forget the cover—judge the book by its opening lines. Can you guess the title from just the first sentence?

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I'm participating in First Lines Fridays as I think it's a great way to highlight more of the books that are on my bookshelves. 

What is First Lines Fridays?

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? 

  • Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page 
  • Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first 
  • Finally… reveal the book!

My Pick For This Week


The first lines of the book:


If there is anything unusual on Pequod Street, a disturbance in the night that suggests impending loss or change, a disruption or a dislocation, Clary Hale’s fatherless children are sleeping too profoundly to hear it. These three would stand out as Clary’s anywhere; they have the same black brushstrokes for eyebrows as their mother, those same thick lashes scoring translucent cheeks, the same brilliant, stubborn faces. They are not laid-back civilian kids, they are Navy juniors, but asleep like this, they could be anybody.


Do you know which book this is from? Scroll down to find out!


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And the book is...

Gone by Kit Craig


About the book


Book synopsis for Gone by Kit Craig

When fifteen-year-old Michael Hale wakes up and finds his mother is missing, he immediately knows something is wrong.

His older sister says he’s overreacting. His baby brother is too young to know what’s going on.

But as the day comes to an end and their mother still does not return, it’s clear that Michael is right.

Beautiful, loving Clary Hale is gone…



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Where to find Gone by Kit Craig online: 

 



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