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!
The first lines of today’s book are:
The early summer sky was the colour of cat vomit.
And the book is…
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Tally can’t wait to turn sixteen and become pretty. Sixteen is the magic number that brings a transformation from repellent Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks, Tally will be there.
But Tally’s new friend, Shay, isn’t sure she wants to be Pretty. She’d rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the Pretty world – and it isn’t very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn Pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.
Have you read this book? If yes, what did you think of it?
Tell me your thoughts in the comments!
2 Comments
ellie @ eleanorsophiewrites
This is a proper throwback, I loved this one as a teen!
Kristina
Cat vomit! rofl well that’s a good first line 🤣
I sady havn’t read that one growing up, but it is on my wanting to read!