Ugh, I ended up skipping a week again. Cuz stuff happened. Again. But what can you do? Anyway, I’m back to posting on First Line Fridays again.
(Also, I totally crossed 200 blog posts without realizing it. Yay for me! 🎉🎉)
First Line Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers (formerly) hosted by Wandering Words, but I saw it over at One Book More.
What if instead of judging a book by the cover, author or most everything else, we judged it by its content? Its first lines?
If you want to join in, all you gotta do is:
📚 Take a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open it to the first page
📝 Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
📙 Finally… reveal the book!
Here are the first lines:
The star was particularly bright when the nightmare painter started his rounds.
The star. Singular. No, not a sun. Just one star. A bullet hole in the midnight sky, bleeding pale light.
Annnd the book is 🥁🥁… Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson!!
(Did you guess it??)
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
SERIES: Secret Projects #3, Cosmere Universe
LENGTH: 481 pages
GENRES: Fantasy, Fiction
PUBLISHER: Tor Books
RELEASE DATE: 1 July 2023
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
#1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us a gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid, where two people from incredibly different worlds must compromise and work together to save their worlds from ruin.
Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares. When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, can they put aside their differences and work together to uncover the mysteries of their situation and save each other’s communities from certain disaster?
As always, thank you so much for reading and have an excellent day/night!
See ya ~Mar