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First Line Friday – The Butterfly Recluse

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The Butterfly Recluse

by Therese Heckenkamp

The Butterfly Recluse

I think the butterflies knew what was coming that day – that he was coming, and that life as we knew it was about to change.

I love a first line that hints at things to come but yet leaves a lot of ambiguity. Who’s he? Where is he coming from and why? Would life change for the better or for worse?

We’ve filled out yard with plants to attract butterflies, and my daughter raises a handful of Monarchs and now Easter Black Swallowtails each summer. She identifies many, many more.

Butterflies know. I’m amazed at the instinctual knowledge of the Monarch caterpillars who know their host plant. Know when it’s time to shed their skin and go into their chrysalis, have their DNA scrambled, and emerge an entirely different-looking creature.

The butterflies know many things.

What’s the first line of the book you’re reading? Or the book nearest to you?

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First Line Friday – Warrior of the Kizan

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Nephilim: Corruption: A Christian Space Princess Novel

by Ann Margaret Lewis

[Previously available under the title Warrior of the Kizan.]

Death, death . . . The crunch of the snow said the word to him over and over.

I can hear this first line. The crunch of hardened snow beneath boots in a steady rhythm as he plods along. Death, cold and foreboding – again and again. It sets a tone for the book and what we can expect. Is it a death from the past that haunts this character, the threat of near death, or death in the future? Or all three? His own death or someone else’s?

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First Line Fridays – The Noble Guardian

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First Line Fridays hosted by Hoarding Books

The Noble Guardian

by Michelle Griep

The Noble Guardian

Was it wicked to say goodbye with a smile?

I love introductory sentences packed with meaning! Nine words, but here’s what they convey:

Someone is happy to be leaving. So happy, in fact, that it brings a smile to her face. (I read ahead so, yes, it’s a woman.) And despite the boldness of her smiling – or contemplating smiling – she feels some compunction about its propriety. Either for its own sake or for the sake of those she’ll happily be rid of.

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