First Lines Fridays – 26th May 2023

Hey everyone!
It is time for this week’s First Lines Fridays post!

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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!

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The first lines of today’s chosen book are:

I’m wide awake in a heartbeat. Sweating and breathing hard. My brain alert and scanning for the something wrong that woke me up. It’s funny how when you’re trying to get up for school you can spend an hour floating in that place between asleep and awake, knowing you need to open your eyes, but unable to do it. But when something thumps in the middle of the night, or there’s a scream in the dark, you go from deep sleep to fully conscious in a second.

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And the book is…

Flock Horror by Jennifer Killick

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GoodReads Synopsis:

The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps.

Angelo and his friends know that together they can handle any pretty much anything – including giant mutant spiders or snake-like parasites that burrow into your brain. But when a terrifying new enemy attacks from above it seems they have met their ultimate match . . . how can they defeat giant vampire birds that are after BLOOD?

With summer term in full force – and sports day and prom night on the horizon – the whole school is in danger. The gang need a plan to bring safety to the skies!

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Have you read this book?
If yes, what did you think of it?

Let me know in the comments!

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