Yes! Two Fridays in a row of posting! Back on track!
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:
š Take a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open it to the first page
š Copy the first few lines, but donāt give anything else about the book away just yet ā you need to hook the reader first
š Finallyā¦ reveal the book!
Here are the first lines:
Halla of Rutger’s Howe had just inherited a great deal of money and was therefore spending her evening trying to figure out how to kill herself.
Annnd the book is š„š„… Swordheart by T. Kingfisher!
(Didja get it right?)
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
LENGTH: 426 pages
GENRES: Fantasy, Romance, Fiction
PUBLISHER: Argyll Productions
RELEASE DATE: 27 November 2018
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle’s estate… and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws… and the sword itself may prove to be the greatest threat of all…
As always, thank you so much for reading and have an excellent day/night!
See ya ~Mar