First Line Friday: The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

I am currently reading The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown.  

I am LOVING IT! And I know my slow reading of it isn't proof positive of that, but it is the end of the quarter at my school and I have been just drowning in grading.  Isn't the cover gorgeous??? 

On a side note, in the movie "Tolkien" (which is an amazing movie!) Tolkien and his future wife, Edith, are sitting in a restaurant and discussing the words "cellar door." I particularly love the line where she refers to herself as Princess Cellar-Door. She says something like "... She demands entertainment. Princess Cellar-Door is bored. Bored of cakes, muffins and exquisite china..." And then he says, no it is a place.  Anyways, every time I read the phrase "The Book of Doors" it makes me think of that for some reason.  Also, go watch that movie!

Each Friday, Reading Is My SuperPower and Rose City Reader host first line link ups. And My Head is Full of Books hosts the Friday56. So as a part of those link-ups I will be sharing the first lines and a line from page 56 from The Book of Doors.

 

GoodReads Description of The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown: If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a book - an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door .

What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want.

But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals - individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses.

Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is, it seems, Drummond Fox. He is a man fleeing his own demons - a man with his own secret library of magical books that he has hidden away in the shadows for safekeeping. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all . . .

Because some doors should never be opened.

First Line: 

In Kellner Books on the Upper East Side of New York City, a few minutes before his death, John Webber was reading The Count of Monte Cristo.

From page 56: 

He didn’t imagine they’d find anything the next day; they hadn’t found anything in the nine months he had been traveling with Azaki, but he was happy to go along for the ride, happy to learn all about the hidden world of magic books.

What book are you currently reading? Have you read The Book of Doors?