First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open 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!
Don’t you just love it when you have absolutely no plans for a weekend! Don’t get me wrong, I love spending time with my friends and family, but sometimes I just need a bit of me time and a weekend to just spend how I wish. This weekend I will hopefully be able to catch up on some reading and finally finish season 2 of Smash which I am loving so far! What do you have planned for the weekend?
This week I’ve chosen to spotlight an ARC I recently read that blew me away. Everything about it was sublime from the characters, the premise, the writing and that ending… I mean I need book two now! It will take an awful lot to knock this off my top Feb read and I can easily see it making it into my top reads of the year.
There were warning signs in the Ward that day that anyone could have seen. The children must have seen the danger in their own games, in the crescent moons, roughly cut from tin, that they strung from fishing lines on sticks and dangled to catch shadows beneath the pale sun. They knew, as I knew, that the festival meant the militia would be out in force, seeking to fill their quota for arrests. They would find infractions enough in the Ward, whether from drinking or improper dress or any of the many offences you can commit when you’re Half Kith.
Well? Are you intrigued? Ready to find out what it is???
Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society’s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors. You either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences.
Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest.
But then she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possesses magic. Sid tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself. But to do that, Nirrim must surrender her old life. She must place her trust in this sly stranger who asks, above all, not to be trusted.
Honestly this book blew me away, the themes mentioned were seriously on point for today’s society and it had me hooked from start to finish, with plenty of twists and turns. Out 3/2/20 this is one to add to your TBR’s.
Ok that sounds incredible, which doesn’t surprise me because this book sounded right up my alley except I got too many romance vibes from the blurb so I didn’t request it.
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It is incredible, I wouldn’t say it was romance heavy… nothing like Mass etc but yea, there’s a definite romance arc
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The impression I’ve gotten about Mass is it is like fairy porn… but I havent read it so that could be wrong lol.
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Pahah not far off, I mean I love them so much but the sex scenes are definitely a bit soft porny 😂
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So romance and sex are two different things. Not that I’m scrambling to add her books to my TBR but… just for clarification. Only because im not a one night stand kind of person so a blow job in the middle of a war isn’t really gonna trigger me. Because I’m just gonna like really ho? That is how you are gonna do this? Well then you do you… and then just skip it. Bc. Once you realize what the scene is, I dont need the details. But that’s me. But maybe I’m watching read with cindy too much lol
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Totally get that! The romance in this one doesn’t end the best as well so maybe it’s best to give it a pass.
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Wait that might be ok if someone kills someone or something!
Jesus. I’m a mess.
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Well now I’m a little worried… 😂 no deaths unfortunately, just a bad ending to the relationship.
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I like non happy happy endings but I see that isnt even a trigger thing. That’s just showing real life. Life is not a rom com or PS I love you. Life sucks sometimes and why can’t that be represented in books? It just doesn’t make sense. The outcast doesn’t always get accepted in the end or get the guy. That’s life. Bad break-ups happen without another guy swooping in or even girlfriends to help. That’s life. Show it. Reality happens.
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Well then maybe this is the book for you! I don’t want to spoil too much but the ending threw me for a loop
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Hmmmn…. when did it come out?
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Think it’s out 3/3, I was hoping it would be in a March book box but no luck so far
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You with that and me with IITB
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Ok I will put it on my TBR
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This sounds so good! I can’t wait to get my hands on it 😀
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I hope you enjoy it 😊
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