Happy Friday everybody! It’s been a couple of weeks since I participated in First Line Fridays – but I’m here again now!
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!
Hereās the first line:
I will share how I fell. But first, I must tell you what it is like to fly.
Any ideas on what book it is? If not, here’s another hint or two…
Still don’t know? Here’s a few gorgeous pictures of books to admire while you consider it a bit more…
Annnd the book is… š„š„ Dragonfall by L.R. Lam!!
(Didja guess it?)
Dragonfall by L.R. Lam
SERIES: The Dragon Scales Duology #1
LENGTH: 432 pages
GENRES: Fantasy, Romance, LGBT+, Fiction
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton
RELEASE DATE: 8 August 2023
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
The first in an epic fantasy duology fromĀ Sunday TimesĀ bestselling author Laura Lam.
Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world. Centuries later, their descendants worship dragons as gods. But the ‘gods’ remember, and they do not forgive.
Thief Arcady scrapes a living on the streets of Vatra. Desperate, Arcady steals a powerful artifact from the bones of the Plaguebringer, the most hated person in Lumet history. Only Arcady knows the artifact’s magic holds the key to a new life among the nobles at court and a chance for revenge.
The spell connects to Everen, the last male dragon foretold to save his kind, dragging him through the Veil. Disguised as a human, Everen soon learns that to regain his true power and form and fulfil his destiny, he only needs to convince one little thief to trust him enough to bond completely – body, mind, and soul – and then kill them.
Yet the closer the two become, the greater the risk both their worlds will shatter.
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 awesome day/night!
See ya ~Mar