Hey everyone! How’s your Friday been going?
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:
When Red wins, she stands alone.
Blood slicks her hair. She breathes out steam in the last night of this dying world.
Do you know the book? If you don’t, here’s a few more hints…
Still not know what it is? Ruminate on it a bit more whilst admiring these nice pictures of books…
Annnd the book is… š„š„ This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone!!
(Didja guess it?)
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
LENGTH: 198 pages
GENRES: Science Fiction, Romance, LGBT+, Fiction
PUBLISHER: Gallery / Saga Press
RELEASE DATE: 16 July 2019
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.Ā
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. Thereās still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. Thatās how war works, right?
Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers,Ā This Is How You Lose the Time WarĀ is an epic love story spanning time and space.
What books have you been reading lately? Whatās on your TBR that youāre currently the most excited about?
As always, thank you for reading, and I hope you have an amazing day/night!
See ya ~Mar