First Lines Friday is a weekly feature 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?
Here’s how it works!
- 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!
It was a wild and lightning-struck night. The kind of night that changes everything.
The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant
The Hatmakers is one of my current reads and I am loving it so far. I love the hatmaking process and Cordelia is such a great character. I’m hoping I can finish this book tonight and see what magical things happen next.
Title: The Hatmakers
Author: Tamzin Merchant
Genre: Fantasy
Age Category: Middle Grade
Publication Date: January 7, 2021
Number of Pages: 368
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Cordelia comes from a long line of magical milliners, who weave alchemy and enchantment into every hat. In Cordelia’s world, Making – crafting items such as hats, cloaks, watches, boots and gloves from magical ingredients – is a rare and ancient skill, and only a few special Maker families remain.
When Cordelia’s father Prospero and his ship, the Jolly Bonnet, are lost at sea during a mission to collect hat ingredients, Cordelia is determined to find him. But Uncle Tiberius and Aunt Ariadne have no time to help the littlest Hatmaker, for an ancient rivalry between the Maker families is threatening to surface. Worse, someone seems to be using Maker magic to start a war.
It’s up to Cordelia to find out who, and why . . .
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