I feel like I’ve got a system going again. Recovering from Thanksgiving week is always a bit rough, but I think I’ve been doing okay. (Haven’t gotten a book review out this week yet, or my November reading wrap-up, but I’m planning on posting both this weekend.)
Anyway, 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:
At the height of the long wet summer of the Seventy-Seventh Year of Sendovani, the Thiefmaker of Camorr paid a sudden and un- announced visit to the Eyeless Priest at the Temple of Perelandro, desperately hoping to sell him the Lamora boy.
Know the book yet? (There’s a huge giveaway here, lol.) If not, here’s another hint or two for you…
Still no idea? Go on and look at these awesome pictures of books if you need a little more time…
Annnd the book is… 🥁🥁 The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch!!
(Did you guess it?)
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
SERIES: Gentleman Bastards Sequence #1
LENGTH: 752 pages
GENRE: Fantasy, Fiction
PUBLISHER: Random House
RELEASE DATE: June 27, 2006
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
The first book of the epic fantasy caper Gentleman Bastard Sequence about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin says “captured me right on the first page and never let me go.”
An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentlemen Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game—or die trying.
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 an amazing day/night!
See ya ~Mar
