Friday 56 and Book Beginning: Fireborne (The Aurelian Cycle #1) by Rosaria Munda || Friday 50/50: 04/26/2019 Best/Worst Read of April

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.

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.

(Thank you NetGalley)

Synopsis:

 The brutal revolution that overthrew the Dragonlords may have orphaned Annie and Lee, but it's brought new hope to their city. Now anyone--including the lowborn--can have wealth, an education, and even test into the governing class of Dragonriders.

 Aristocratic by birth and with his identity concealed, Lee's confidence and air of power have made him a rising star in the very regime that slaughtered his family. Annie, a former serf, is as bold a rider as they come--in the air. On the ground, she struggles with self-doubt. 

 Now, after seven years of friendship, Annie and Lee are rivals for the top position in the city's fleet. All the riders have been preparing to lead their people into the future, yet no one is ready when survivors from the Dragonlord families resurface with dragons of their own, bent on reclaiming the city. 

 With war looming and their relationship growing, Annie and Lee will both have to confront wavering loyalties. Lee will be forced to choose between killing the only family he has left, or betraying everything he's come to believe in, while Annie will have to decide whether to protect the boy she loves . . . or step up to be the champion her city needs. 

Book Beginning:

Prologue

Later, he would be known as the First Protector, and under his vision the city would transform.

56%:

The soldier went on after the revolution to live a quiet life, retired from military office, and in the great scheme of this changing city, amounting to little.

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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.

Honestly, it's been kind of a meh reading month. I got really sick near the end of March and into the first couple weeks of April and I just didn't feel like reading. Then the husband got sick, then the little boy got sick. So reading was just not on the table for a while, and the books I did get to none of them really blew me away. The best book was still kind of meh for me.

Best

Worst

It was just really boring.