From their fantasy novels–can you name the author of each opening line?
Do you recognize their voices? (All published since2003)
1. Getting dressed was always the hardest part of the afternoon.
2. Jack woke before dawn and listened to the cold February wind lash the walls of the house.
3. Rain fell that night, a fine, whispering rain.
4. Miri woke to the sleepy bleating of a goat.
5. Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow’s nest, being the ship’s eyes.
6. The queen waited.
7. “What was that?”
8. Xing Xing squatted by the water, silent and unmoving.
9. I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can’t make your body move fast enough.
10. My cousin Duke’s troubles on the river started the day he dangled me off the wagon wheel bridge.
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