Happy Friday & welcome to First Line Friday hosted at Reading is my Super Power! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today I’m delighted to feature the first line(s) of The Sirens by Emilia Hart.
First Line(s)
She breathes in time with the sea.
In
The waves crash against the rocks, frothing through the mouth of the cave. Icy on her toes, her shaking thighs.
Out
St. Martin’s Press publisher April 2,2025 publication date
A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward
2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack—but Jess is nowhere to be found.
As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess’s strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women’s voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister’s adolescent diary.
1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them—and in her—that no one else has.
1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. For their entire lives, they’ve feared the ocean, as their mother tragically drowned when they were just girls. Yet as the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can’t explain, and they feel the sea beginning to call to them…
A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.
What are the first line of the closest book to you ?
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5 replies on “First Line Friday”
My choice this week is the Circle 31 Book Club pick for November I want to trust you, but I don’t Moving forward when you’re skeptical of others, afraid of what God will allow, and doubtful of your own discernment by Lysa Terkeurst founder of Proverbs 31 Ministries and this is Proverbs 31 exclusive edition and has an autographed book plate inside! Here is the first lines right before the introduction: Broken trust complicates every bit of parts of love that should be comforting.
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Nice post 🌺🌺
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Sounds like an interesting read. I love the cover!
Have a great weekend!
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Spectacular cover and a great story line. I just finished reading After Annie by Anna Quindlen for the community’s book club. The first line is “Annie Brown died right before dinner.”
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love the graphics!
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