A book's first sentence/paragraph is key to gaining a potential reader's attention. So let's play...

Add the first sentence/s (not more than one tweet) of a published book. No need to name title or author.

Rate them from 1 to 5 - (5 being the best).

I'll start with below.
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a wreath of liquid copper.
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