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!

Hello, hello! I hope you’re all having a great week so far. Mine has been well and truly hectic! We are having a new system put in at work and it went live this week so we have spent far too much time working out the kinks and trying to fix all the issues. However, I have a nice chilled weekend planned filled with rugby and reading & I can’t wait. The book I’ve picked for this week is published by Tor, who basically own my TBR atm, and is one that sounded way too unique for me to pass up. Filled with divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults, as well as the mundane disappointments of modern life, it’s one I can’t wait to pick up.

‘The moment Fetter is born, Mother-of-Glory pins his shadow to the earth with a large brass nail and tears it from him.’

Oooh definitely unique and a little quirky sounding too! Any guesses?!?

Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy.

He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen.

Everything in Luriat is more than it seems. Group therapy is recruitment for a revolutionary cadre. Junk email hints at the arrival of a god. Every door is laden with potential, and once closed may never open again. The city is scattered with Bright Doors, looming portals through which a cold wind blows. In this unknowable metropolis, Fetter will discover what kind of man he is, and his discovery will rewrite the world.