Book Beginning | Friday 56 | Blogger Hop || The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1) by Evan Winter

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.

I started this book a few months ago, but I wasn't really in the right headspace to read an epic fantasy. So I sent it back to the library and put it back on hold. I'm out of the weird funk I was in, for the most part, and also got around the same time. Hopefully I have the time to read this book, it is on the longer side.

Synopsis:

   The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine.

   Everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war.

   Young, gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. He's going to get himself injured, get out early, and settle down to marriage, children, and land. Only, he doesn't get the chance.

   Those closest to him are brutally murdered, and his grief swiftly turns to anger. Fixated on revenge, Tau dedicates himself to an unthinkable path. He'll become the greatest swordsman to ever live, a man willing to die a hundred thousand times for the chance to kill the three who betrayed him.

Book Beginning:
  Queen Taifa stood at the bow of the Targon, her beached warship, and looked out at the massacre on the sands. 


Friday 56:
  The choking Gifted had gone quiet.
"Come," his father said. "We won."

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Q: Where do you get book images for your posts? 

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