“Hushflowers always bloomed when the night was longest. – THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES by Mindy McGinnis “Depending on who-sorry, whom-you ask, I may have killed my three best friends.” “Everyone believed Diabolics were fearless, but in my earliest years, all I knew was fear.” – ALL THE CROOKED SAINTS by Maggie Stiefvater “You can hear a miracle a long way after dark.” “I have a heart for every year I’ve been alive.” “My mother was raised on fairy tales, but I was raised on highways.”

“On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky.” – CITY OF HEAVENLY FIRE by Cassandra Clare “On the day Emma Carstairs’s parents were killed, the weather was perfect.” “The demon exploded in a shower of ichor and guts.” In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. So without further ado, let’s get to some of our faves, shall we? Kristen Ciccarelli’s debut fantasy explores an intricately woven world of deception, inner darkness, and dragons that fantasy fans won’t be able to resist. We would even go so far as to say that their opening lines took our breath away.

Whether it was the because of some shocking early reveal, a nice dose of action, purely gorgeous writing, or something more, there are a good amount of books on our shelves that have cemented their place in the “loved from the very first line” section. You know that feeling you get when you open a book and, from the very first line, you just know that it’s going to blow your freaking mind?

The last namsara