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!
“Every smiley moon, without fail, Claire dreamed of her childhood.”
The Book is…

I read this series out of order. This one is still sitting on my tbr pile, but I loved the sequel, First Frost.
Have you read this book? Did you recognize the opening line?
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