Happy Friday! Today I am participating in First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books, AND First Lines Friday, hosted by Wandering Words!
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!
“Cinderella has been dead for two hundred years.”
Anyone have any guesses on what book this is? I’ll give you a few clues…
Last chance to guess!
Today’s book is…
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron Published on July 7, 2020 by Bloomsbury YA
Genres: Fantasy, Retellings, YA, Queer
Pages: 400
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It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again.
Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella’s mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all–and in the process, they learn that there’s more to Cinderella’s story than they ever knew . . .
This fresh take on a classic story will make readers question the tales they’ve been told, and root for girls to break down the constructs of the world around them.
“Cinderella has been dead for two hundred years.”
I started CINDERELLA IS DEAD by Kalynn Bayron yesterday, and I am LOVING IT so far! Retellings are some of my favorite things, so I have high hopes for this one!
Do you participate in either of these memes? Let me know if you do and link your posts in the comments so I can visit! And don’t forget to have a splendiferous week!
Happy Friday! Today, I’m sharing the first line from The Christmas Swap by Melody Carlson. “Emma Daley had always loved Christmas as a child, but . . . not so much as an adult.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2021/01/first-line-fridays-christmas-swap-by.html
Happy Friday!
Over on my blog my first line comes from The Piano Teacher by Kristie Self
“The darkness lay heavy that night, unbroken by any slivers of moonlight.”
https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/2021/01/first-line-friday-piano-teacher-by.html
Have a lovely weekend!
What a fun idea! I will absolutely have to try this with my blog! Thank you for sharing!
Jewell recently posted…The Inheritance Game
My first line us from Endless Mercy by Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse. The second book in the series Treasures of Nome.
Nome, Alaska. September 1904
The lively tune on the piano couldn’t keep up with the smile in Madysen’s heart.