First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First Line:
Another night, another dead body that isn’t Mama.
Do you recognize the lines?
Hint: It’s a new YA military fantasy.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s written by Deborah Falaye.
The First Lines Friday book is:
Blood Scion
About the Book:
Title: Blood Scion
Author: Deborah Falaye
Series: Blood Scion
Page Length: 432
Publication Date: March 8, 2022
Publisher: Harper Teen
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Mythology
Synopsis: This is what they deserve. They wanted me to be a monster. I will be the worst monster they ever created.
Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will—she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods.
Under the Lucis’ brutal rule, her identity means her death if her powers are discovered. But when she is forcibly conscripted into the Lucis army on her fifteenth birthday, Sloane sees a new opportunity: to overcome the bloody challenges of Lucis training, and destroy them from within.
Sloane rises through the ranks and gains strength but, in doing so, risks something greater: losing herself entirely, and becoming the very monster that she ahbors.
LINKS: Goodreads | Harper Collins | Amazon | Book Depository
Have you read Blood Scion, or do you plan to? What do you think of the first lines? Comment below!
Ooh, what great first lines! 😍 I’m keen to read this one!
Aren’t they great?! Pulls you in right from the start!
I plan to read it. I tried picking it up recently but need to be in the mood for the topics.
Definitely! It’s not a light read.
This is such a cool post! I would love to be a part of this sometime!
You should do it!!