First Line Friday

FIRST LINE FRIDAY...First lines have always intrigued me since I heard an author say that writing the first sentence is, by far, the most difficult part of writing a novel. The reasoning was that a first sentence can make the reader continue reading or cause the book to be tossed aside. So, go to your To Be Read Pile, choose as many books as you want and share the first line. Be sure to include the title and author so that if your reader also finds it intriguing, they can find the book. Also, share your thoughts about the first line. Does it draw you in? Is it...exciting...thought provoking...scary...funny?

"She screamed."
The Diamond Waterfall
Pamela Haines

Okay, well... that's to the point. Hmm, I have no idea why she is screaming. I guess the first did draw me in as now I want to find out why she is screaming. And, even more... who "she" is!

This book has been in my TBR pile for quite a while. It keeps getting bumped for other books so I'm making the promise to read it. I've decided it will be my bedtime book. I will keep it on my nightstand and not bring my current read to bed.

I bought this hardcover at the library book sale. On the last day, all the books you can fit in a bag are just $5. What a bargain! So, I buy books that I probably would pass over otherwise. I generally read them and donate back to the sale.

From the book jacket... "The Sparkling Cascade of diamonds was designed to adorn the women who married into one of England's most prominent families - a symbol of the wealth and privilege enjoyed by the Firths of Yorkshire. Instead the magnificent necklace would come to burden the women who wore it, becoming for them an emblem of bondage and inherited tragedy.
Pamela Haines's enthralling new saga tells of three generations whose lives and destinies are linked through blood and inheritance of this priceless heirloom. There is Lily Greene, star of the London stage, who in 1898 weds the enigmatic sir Robert Firth, and for whom the diamond waterfall comes to symbolize a state of degradation and humiliation she never imagined possible. There is Lily's daughter, Sylvia, who is married for this fabulous legacy and leads a life of love and torment. And finally, there is Willow Gilmartin, who in the spring of 1945 removes the diamond waterfall from its bed of ivory satin-and at last claims a heritage that has for so long eluded others.
Sweeping from a great Yorkshire estate to the Riviera and across Europe - from the opulence of Edwardian London to the trenches of France in World War I and back to England during one of her most dramatic hours-this panoramic novel interweaves the lives of men who would fight on the battlefields of two world wars and women who would carry forward the traditions that defined them."

This has EVERYTHING I love in a family saga!! I can't believe I haven't read this sooner!