Book Beginning | Friday 56 | Blogger Hop || The Luminaries (The Luminaries #1) by Susan Dennard

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:

   Hemlock Falls isn't like other towns. You won't find it on a map, your phone won't work here, and the forest outside town might just kill you.
   Winnie Wednesday wants nothing more than to join the Luminaries, the ancient order that protects Winnie's town—and the rest of humanity—from the monsters and nightmares that rise in the forest of Hemlock Falls every night.
   Ever since her father was exposed as a witch and a traitor, Winnie and her family have been shunned. But on her sixteenth birthday, she can take the deadly Luminary hunter trials and prove herself true and loyal—and restore her family's good name. Or die trying.
   But in order to survive, Winnie enlists the help of the one person who can help her train: Jay Friday, resident bad boy and Winnie’s ex-best friend. While Jay might be the most promising new hunter in Hemlock Falls, he also seems to know more about the nightmares of the forest than he should. Together, he and Winnie will discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for.
   Not all monsters can be slain, and not all nightmares are confined to the dark.

 

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Book Beginning:

The Nightmare

The forest comes for the boy on his thirteenth birthday.

Friday 56:

"If you can get here before the mist rises, Jay says, "and climb that tree, you should be safe for the rest of the night. No nightmare will form here, and the moving water is enough to keep them from stepping over."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Q:  What is your first read of the year?

A: My first reads of the year are going to be the ones I didn't get to before the end of last year. The last few months of 2022 were busy and I didn't have as much time to read as usual.