As promised, here's the answers to
last month's first lines contest. See how many you got right!
1. I felt cold metal on the side of my skull before I heard the voice. -
The Highwayman's Footsteps
by Nicola Morgan
2. When my father died, I thought the world would come to an end. -
A Curse Dark as Gold
by Elizabeth C. Bunce
3. There was a time, during the golden age of men and gods, when mankind became forgetful, almost to the point of its own destruction. -
Pandora Gets Jealous
by Carolyn Hennesy
4. "My God, Persy, you killed him!" -
Bewitching Season
by Marissa Doyle
5. "Please tell me what to do," I whisper, staring at the crucifix on the wall. -
The Patron Saint of Butterflies
by Cecilia Galante
6. My lady: I pray this letter finds you in a place of safety. -
Ophelia
by Lisa Klein
7. "Honey, I'm so sorry." -
Bride of the Water God Volume 1
by Mi-Kyung Yun
8. Ar Kin was the first ex-convict I had ever met. -
Forbidden Tales: Sword
by Da Chen
9. When Uncle Frank's head was finally parted from his body, the crowd laughed. -
How the Hangman Lost His Heart
by K. M. Grant
10. Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable. -
Dealing with Dragons
by Patricia C. Wrede
11. Silvano da Montacuto was not just young, handsome and rich. -
The Falconer's Knot
by Mary Hoffman
12. Edward Fairchild, Prince of the Enchanted Forest, Lord of the Desert's Edge, Friend to the Unicorns, and King of the Secret Country, wished he were somewhere else. -
The Secret Country
by Pamela Dean
13. Rebecca Winter, gifted, cheerful, and poor, had lived sixteen years without once seeing a bomb go off. -
The Tin Princess
by Philip Pullman
14. We heard the music even before we got to Union Hall. -
Ten Cents a Dance
by Christine Fletcher
15. "Four-ball, side pocket." -
Wicked Lovely
by Melissa Marr
16. Jane was crying. -
Angelmonster
by Veronica Bennett
17. The whispers began the day she arrived on horseback at the gates of the Emperor's palace. -
Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb
by Kirsten Miller
18. I'm not going to begin my story with "Once upon a time," even though many of you will call it a fairy tale. -
Saving Juliet
by Suzanne Selfors
19. The big television cameras of the
You've Been Caught Napping game show prowled in the darkness at the edge of the set, their lenses focused on the old man's face. -
The Sky Inside
by Clare B. Dunkle
20. I'm dead. -
The Everafter
by Amy Huntley
21. And the next thing I knew I was a baby. -
Reincarnation
by Suzanne Weyn
22. The heat was awful. -
The Misadventures of Maude March
by Audrey Couloumbis
23. The burning arrow thudded into the wall. -
Evernight
by Claudia Gray
24. Six elephants could have gotten off the monthly train and they wouldn't have been as big a deal to Arley as her precious box of Penny Dreadfuls. -
Much Ado About Grubstake
by Jean Ferris
25. I wasn't at all surprised when Cinderella gave me the finger. -
Dream Factory
by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler
26. What the freakin' heck--
I Was a Teenage Popsicle
by Bev Katz Rosenbaum
27. Five simultaneous screams ripped through the cathedral. -
Scrapped Princess: A Tale of Destiny
by Ichiro Sakaki
28. It looked like a bad day for photographers. -
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson
29. Pieces of her are broken. -
Poison Ink
by Christopher Golden
30. Diary of F. Bamfield. -
Canned
by Alex Shearer
31. My parents are trying to ruin my life. -
Sucks to Be Me
by Kimberly Pauley
32. It was just past midnight and I was trudging through the St. Louis Greyhound station, a grim building obviously brought to you by the people who design high school bathrooms. -
Cathy's Key
by Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman
33. The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. -
Uglies
by Scott Westerfel
34. I never called the number. -
Dramacon, Volume 2
by Svetlana Chmakova
35. Death disturbed the night. -
Aurelia
by Anne Osterlund
36. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little, and Jane Hayes, pretty enough and clever enough, was certainly thought to have little to distress her. -
Austenland
by Shannon Hale
