Happy Valentine’s Day!! 💝🌹💌🌷🍫💐 Wow, it’s been like three weeks since I last participated in this post.
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’s the first line:
If there is one subject upon which Wendell and I will never agree, it is the wisdom of attempting to drag a cat into Faerie.
Know the book? If you don’t, here’s a couple more hints…
Still not know? Think about it a bit more while looking at these nice photos of books…
Annnd the book is… 🥁🥁 Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett!!
(Didja guess it?)
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
SERIES: Emily Wilde #3
LENGTH: 352 pages
GENRES: Fantasy, Romance, Fiction
PUBLISHER: Del Rey
RELEASE DATE: 11 February 2025
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
The third installment in the heartwarming and enchanting Emily Wilde series, about a curmudgeonly scholar of folklore and the fae prince she loves.
Emily Wilde has spent her life studying faeries. A renowned dryadologist, she has documented hundreds of species of Folk in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Now she is about to embark on her most dangerous academic project yet: studying the inner workings of a faerie realm—as its queen.
Along with her former academic rival—now fiancé—the dashing and mercurial Wendell Bambleby, Emily is immediately thrust into the deadly intrigues of Faerie as the two of them seize the throne of Wendell’s long-lost kingdom, which Emily finds a beautiful nightmare filled with scholarly treasures.
Emily has been obsessed with faerie stories her entire life, but at first she feels as ill-suited to Faerie as she did to the mortal world: How can an unassuming scholar such as herself pass for a queen? Yet there is little time to settle in, for Wendell’s murderous stepmother has placed a deadly curse upon the land before vanishing without a trace. It will take all of Wendell’s magic—and Emily’s knowledge of stories—to unravel the mystery before they lose everything they hold dear.
What books have you been reading lately? What’s on your TBR that you’re currently the most excited about?
As always, thank you for reading, and I hope you have a fantastic day/night!
See ya ~Mar
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