Friday 56 and Book Beginning: Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman || Friday 50/50: Favorite/Least Favorite Movie Tie-In Cover

This is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice

These are the rules:

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader.

3. Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.

4. Post it.

5. Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post.

Please join us over at RoseCityReader every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

Synopsis:

     In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons get to be whomever they want. Tess, stubbornly, is a troublemaker. You can't make a scene at your sister's wedding and break a relative's nose with one punch (no matter how pompous he is) and not suffer the consequences. As her family plans to send her to a nunnery, Tess yanks on her boots and sets out on a journey across the Southlands, alone and pretending to be a boy.

     Where Tess is headed is a mystery, even to her. So when she runs into an old friend, it's a stroke of luck. This friend is a quigutl--a subspecies of dragon--who gives her both a purpose and protection on the road. But Tess is guarding a troubling secret. Her tumultuous past is a heavy burden to carry, and the memories she's tried to forget threaten to expose her to the world in more ways than one.

(Sidenote, I am skipping to Chapter one with my Book Beginning, the prologue starts weird, and I would have to add like 3 paragraphs for it not to be too weird. I don't want to add that much.)

Book Beginning:

The twins had taken their morning stitchery to the Tapestry Salon, one of the less fashionable sitting rooms in the palace.

My 56:

The sisters specialized in palliative care, but they knew their way around the surgery.

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50/50 Friday is a new weekly link-up hosted by Carrie @ The Butterfly Reader and Laura @ Blue Eye Books.  Every week they have a new topic featuring two sides of the same coin - you share a book that suits each category and link up on the hosts' blogs.

Oh... Um, I hate movie covers for books. They bother me, I don't want to see the actors faces on my books. One of my favorite things in the world is that the Harry Potter books never had movie covers.