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 Lines:
Pain washed over Eric in waves, salt sticking to every scratch. Water lapped at his legs, and a bone-deep cold shuddered down his spine. He tried to turn his head and groaned. He couldn’t move. Why couldn’t he move?
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s a new fairy tale retelling.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s written by Linsey Miller.
The First Lines Friday book is:
Prince of Song and Sea
About the Book:
Title: Prince of Song and Sea
Author: Linsey Miller
Series: Princes #1
Page Length: 352
Publication Date: Oct. 4, 2022
Publisher: Disney Press
Synopsis: For fans of Twisted Tales and Villains is a brand new YA series that retells the classic Disney stories you thought you knew from the Disney Princes’ perspectives.
Before Prince Eric’s mother, the Queen of Vellona, went missing two years ago, she reminded him about the details of the deadly curse that has plagued his entire life. The curse? If he were to kiss someone other than his true love, he would die. With a neighboring kingdom looking for any excuse to invade their shores, and rumors of ghost pirates lurking the seas, Eric is desperate for any information that may help him break his enchantment and bring stability to Vellona. The answers he has been searching for come to him in the form of a letter left from his mother that reveals Eric must find his true love, the one with a voice pure of heart,or kill the sea witch responsible for cursing him in the first place.
Now Eric is on a quest to find the Isle of Serein, the witch’s legendary home. But after he is rescued by a mysterious young woman with a mesmerizing singing voice, Eric’s heart becomes torn. Does he enter a battle he is almost certain he cannot win or chase a love that might not even exist? And when a shipwrecked young woman with flaming red hair and a smile that could calm the seven seas enters his life, Eric may discover that true love isn’t something that can be decided by magic.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon
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Have you read Prince of Song and Sea? What do you think of the first lines? Comment below!
Yas, I knew exactly which one this would be even though I haven’t read it but I’m very excited to! 😍 I hope you enjoy it, Julie!
I’m really looking forward to this one! Just have to find time to squeeze it in. lol Maybe we can buddy read it at some point. We could ask Leslie too!
Oooh this sounds brilliant! And I love the idea of the stories from the Princes POV’s.
Me too! And that cover? I’m drooling. It’s so gorgeous! lol I’m curious to see which other princes will be in the series.