First Line Friday & The Friday 56: Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

First Line Friday is hosted by Carrie @ Reading Is My Superpower.
The Friday 56 is hosted by Anne @ My Head is Full of Books while Freda @ Freda’s Voice is on hiatus.
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FIRST LINE FRIDAY

where each week we share the first line of our current read(s)

It starts the moment you look out the window.
You don’t see him through the glare of the night-dark glass. You just look, safe inside but flinging your soul outward.
Your features transform whenever someone speaks to you, but you drop your sweet smile as soon as they turn away—a girl who wears a disguise to survive. It surprises and intrigues him, so he follows you when you walk outside.

THE FRIDAY 56

where each week we share a snippet from page 56 or 56%

Lucy was the girl who grew up in this cold house with her toys locked away. I’m instantly intrigued. I wonder if she’s the subject of those paintings, too? Are those her piercing, intelligent brown eyes, starting at me from the past?
“Nope.” I shut the book emphatically. I don’t have time for the problems of someone who lived more than a century ago. I don’t even have time for my own problems.

In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love.

Her name was written in the pages of someone else’s story: Lucy Westenra was one of Dracula’s first victims.

But her death was only the beginning. Lucy rose from the grave a vampire, and has spent her immortal life trying to escape from Dracula’s clutches–and trying to discover who she really is and what she truly wants.

Her undead life takes an unexpected turn when, in twenty-first-century London, she meets another woman who is also yearning to break free from her past. Iris’s family has built a health empire based on a sinister secret, and they’ll do anything to stay in power.

Lucy has long believed she would never love again. But she finds herself compelled by the charming Iris, while Iris is mesmerized by the confident and glamorous Lucy. But their intense connection and blossoming love is threatened by forces from without. Iris’s mother won’t let go of her without a fight, and Lucy’s past still has fangs: Dracula is on the prowl again.

Lucy Westenra has been a tragically murdered teen, a lonesome adventurer, and a fearsome hunter, but happiness always eluded her. Can she find the strength to destroy Dracula once and for all, or will her heart once again be her undoing?

What do you think of the snippets I featured today?
Have you read this book? Do you want to?