Book Beginning | Friday 56 | Blogger Hop || The Rot (The Raven Rings #2) by Siri Pettersen

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.

Synopsis:

She has no identity. No family. No money. But the fate of the worlds rests in her hands.

   Hirka is stranded in a rotting world, with nothing but a raven and a notebook to connect her to the life she left behind in Ym. She came in search of her family, believing that she could protect Rime and the rest of Ym from the ancient evil of the blind. Instead, what Hirka finds in this new world are people willing to do anything for the blessing—or the curse—of eternal life. And for Rime, the threat of the blind is only growing stronger …

   Separated by worlds, unsure who to trust, and in danger from all sides, Hirka and Rime fight to end a thousand-year quest for power and revenge—and, maybe, to find a way back to each other.

*****

Book Beginning:

Prologue

   He sat in the tunnel between platforms, a cardboard sign propped against his knees. His face was hidden by greasy hair, but there was no doubt. It was him. And the tube doors were about to shut.

Friday 56:

   Rime slammed his palm against the image carved into the rock, dislodging more snow. "He's alive! And the man kneeling before him is alive. They're not just symbols or legends. They have names. Graal and Naiell. They were brothers -- deadborn brothers who fought side by side."

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Q: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein vs. Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Which classic horror tale is scarier?  

A: Doctor Frankenstein is scarier... because he's a human. (The monster doesn't have a name and is not the villain of that story).