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!

First Lines:

Our mother was a witch, too, but she hid it better.

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Forest of Whispers by Jennifer Murgia
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  Yes
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  June 1 – 4
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  Is it Magic or is it Medicine? Rune is basically an herbalist lol
Least Favorite Thing:  The ending felt rushed and confusing…

Dammit, I didn’t realize this was the first in a series (or duet maybe? because there’s only one more book), I was so excited for a nice standalone! And the thing is it totally read as a standalone, so I probably won’t bother with the sequel.

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Belladonna by Anbara Salam
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  Yes
Format:  eBook
Reading Dates:  June 5 – 10
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  Sentient Potato
Least Favorite Thing:  Made me dissociate…

I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Welp! Guess I have another new book to add to my wishlist lol

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Stars Above by Marissa Meyer
(The Lunar Chronicles Collection)
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  June 11 – 15
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  Wolf’s story
Least Favorite Thing:  The ending of that weird Little Mermaid retelling? Like did she accidentally leave something out?

Im glad I finally got around to reading this collection, but now I just want to read the whole series again…

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Divine by Mistake by P.C. Cast
(Parthalon, book 1)
Rating:  ★☆☆☆☆ – did not like it
Review:  Vlog
Format:  eBook
Reading Dates:  May 28 – June 17
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  That scene where she tells some random guy about her yeast infection.
Least Favorite Thing:  Every sex scene.

This is without a doubt the worst book ever written and I don’t understand how it got published.

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East Coast Girls by Kerry Kletter
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  Yes
Format:  eBook
Reading Dates:  June 17 – 22
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  The writing style.
Least Favorite Thing:  A little difficult to get into.

I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I was worried I wasn’t going to like this book for a minute, but the more I read the more I liked it.

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Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
(Strange the Dreamer, book 2)
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  June 23 – 26
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  Everything I want to say would be a spoiler!
Least Favorite Thing:  There is nothing!

I read this for the #MakeYourMythTaker Readathon and I am so glad I did!

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Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
(The Cahill Witch Chronicles, book 1)
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  June 26
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  Feathers!
Least Favorite Thing:  The ending!

I read this for #MakeYourMythTaker also. And now I’m going to have to get my hands on the sequel because I’ve got to know what happens next!

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American Rose by Karen Abbott
Rating:  ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Review:  No
Format:  Audiobook
Reading Dates:  June 11 – 29
Read Count:  <1
Favorite Thing:  Her whole life story based on lies and no one cares.
Least Favorite Thing:  Her actual childhood based on abuse and no one cares.

Man this book should have been so interesting and yet… DNF’d at 64% so I’m still counting it towards my goal for the month and year.

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