FIRST LINE FRIDAY #1

Welcome to first line Friday! It is hosted by Hoarding Books and the idea is to grab a book and share the first line from that book. Let’s try and see if we can find something new to add to our ever growing TBRs this way.


I have gone by many names. Some of them are real – I was given four at birth alone – but most are carefully constructed personas to get me through checkpoints and across borders.

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FIRST LINE FRIDAY #10

Welcome to first line Friday! It is hosted by Hoarding Books and the idea is to grab a book and share the first line from that book. Let’s try and see if we can find something new to add to our ever growing TBRs this way.


The Castilian town smelled of gunpowder, of partridge and rabbit blood, of smoke curling up from the chimneys.


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FIRST LINE FRIDAY #6

Welcome to first line Friday! It is hosted by Hoarding Books and the idea is to grab a book and share the first line from that book. Let’s try and see if we can find something new to add to our ever growing TBRs this way.


We all turned sixteen today, and for any normal girl that would mean raspberry and lemon macarons and tiny pastel blimps and pink champagne and card games.


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