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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic is :

Opening Lines

So, this is fairly self explanatory.  Gripping opening lines.  These are my choices:

“It’s important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size.”– Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

“When I was seven, I found a door.”  The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow

“Dogs were with us from the very beginning.” A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher

“Itami Cho woke to the screams of her own death. “  Never Die by Rob J Hayes

“Carolyn had been kidnapped twice in the past month, which was twice more than most people in a lifetime.” Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

“When a welcome to a city comes in the form of being chased through it’s streets by a bloodthirsty mob, you might assume you’ve done something wrong.” Chasing Graves by Ben Galley

“My right arm is made of metal.”  Fortune’s Fool by Angela Boord

“Two weeks before everyone died and the world changed forever, Finnbogi the Boggy was fantasising about Thyri Treelegs.”  You Die When You Die by Angus Watson

“Of course, a sensible woman would never have accepted the invitation in the first place.” Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis

“The old spellmasters like to say that magic has a taste.” Spellslinger by Sebastien deCastell