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:
Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.
To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.
As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.
Book Beginning:
on a drowsy Sunday afternoon, a man in a long dark coat hesitated in front of a house on a tree-lined street. He hadn't parked a car, nor had he come by taxi. No neighbor had seen him strolling along the sidewalk. He simply appeared, as if stepping between one shadow and the next.
Page 56:
I swallow the howl clawing up my throat.
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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.
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Ooh, sounds intense! Thanks for sharing, and here's mine: “FORGET YOU KNOW ME”
ReplyDeleteI found The Cruel Prince interesting. Of course, I usually find books by Holly Black interesting. This week I am spotlighting Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteHow on Earth could I have forgotten Throne of Glass! Yes, that remake is sooooo much better!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up!
Carrie @ The Butterfly Reader
This one is on my list!! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
ReplyDeleteI've heard some good things about this book. Hope you enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteThe Cruel Prince was awesome!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad they re did the cover of Throne of Glass.
Lauren @ Always Me