First Lines Friday #455, January 31st

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!

"It's midday, and the desert air is shimmering with heat, the streets painted black with the bodies of dead passenger pigeons. A week ago these birds flew thick enough to block out the sun, but now only a few remain, circling over Entropia's mountain city. The mournful cries echo in the air, a carpet of fallen feathers whipping into twisted clouds when the wind whistles through the hills. The city once glowed with life, dreams, and possibility, but now it's an empty, desolate monument to the dead." -The Vicious Cure by Emily Suvada

Well, that's pretty dark! Must read more! What about you guys? Happy reading!