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!
The queen stopped screaming just after midnight.
Simon had been hiding in her closet, fingers jammed
into his ears to block out the noise.
For hours, he had crouched there, knees
drawn to chest, head bowed.
For hours, the queen's rooms had shuddered
in tandem with her screams.
Now, there was silence.
Furyborn by Claire Legrand!
The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world…or doom it.
When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed…unless the trials kill her first.
One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable–until her mother vanishes. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire’s heart is more terrible than she ever imagined.
As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world–and of each other.
So I actually read this book last year, but this was when I stopped my blog because I was super depressed and whatnot, so I didn’t ever write a review. I know I want to read it again because I want to read the second one! Plus there’s going to be a third one so I’m curious to see how it’s going to go. What are your thoughts on this book?
Sometimes Leelynn Reads 
I’m glad you came back and (hope) you are doing better.
This has been on my TBR for ages and I had from my library forever. I need to try and get back to it.
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Thanks so much, Susan! I’m really glad to be back blogging and I am so excited to continue to grow and learn from this experience and hopefully continue with it forever and ever. I mean, until I finish all the books I want to read in the world 😉
I hope you end up liking it! I think I may do a reread eventually. Later on in the year or something.
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That’s all any of us can do. One by one, book by book!
Finish all the books?! What are you superwoman? There are all the books on the back list TBR that I cant get to because of the continual onslaught of new books? Dont blaspheme lady!
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That’s the joke! I’ll probably never finish all the books as long as I live. But I know you knew that and I’m just dumb lol
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You arent dumb. I’m the queen of sarcasm and self depreciating humor. Moving to the midwest didnt change the Brooklyn Italian
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Are those Reign gifs? I need to watch that show! 😀 This book sounds good, I like when there are dual protagonists.
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Yes!!! I loved Reign so much and I need to do a rewatch. I’m so bummed that they ended it, but I think it was a great show 🙂
Yes, me too! I know that it switches every chapter, but I feel like the chapters work well enough that it doesn’t bother me that they switch POVs every time.
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I had this on my TBR but never got around to it. Might need to put it back since you’ve enjoyed it though.
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If you ever want to buddy read it, let me know! I feel like I went through this one either super fast and I can’t remember, or I just read so many books in between then and I feel like I need to revisit this.
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I haven’t read this one but I really hope that you do end up doing a reread with it so that I can check out your review! Also, since you mentioned your break from blogging, I just wanted to tell you that I’m so glad that you’re back♥♥
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Who knows?! Maybe I’ll stop adding books to my TBR and end up reading it in December or something. That’s a good goal to have! I’m so glad I’m back too. Thank you for being here with me ❤
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Ooohh. I haven’t read this book, but I’ve heard great things about it and with that snippet… I am very, very intrigued! 😀
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Marie! I hope that you get to this book eventually. And when you do, I hope that you enjoy it ❤
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