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!
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Happy Friday everyone and welcome to the almost-weekend! Before we jump into First Lines Friday, let’s talk about today’s WordPress prompt… the last thing I got excited about.
In one more week, our three kids begin their 6th year being homeschooled and we are really excited for this year. We’ve got their schoolbooks all lined up and ready to go, we’re planning field trips for the year with our Wild+Free friends, and there is so much to look forward to this year.
Any kid feels anxiety about a new school year, but it’s been a real blessing to be able to homeschool our children and see the excitement on their faces when the new year begins. Our youngest is starting 1st grade this year and she couldn’t wait until our planned start day of September 3rd, so she’s already started diving into a few of her workbooks. It’s an absolute joy to provide this experience for our children and share in it with them.
As we gear up their curriculum and excitement for the first day, I’m also really excited to share this book with you all that I’m currently reading. It’s a YA Fantasy featuring Sirens, Fae and a Fox Girl.
“Sing the song of your heart.”
Son of the Siren by Kristina Elyse Butke
Now onto FIRST LINES FRIDAY!
“On the night of his twentieth birthday, Lirien was dreaming he was a golden bird with long, lustrious plumage, when a wordless song invaded his sleep. A woman’s voice, rich and beautiful, floated upon the warm summer breeze through the open balconette window, but it wasn’t until he felt the gentle brush of her breath against his ear that Lirien opened his eyes.”
First Lines Friday reveal…….
Son of the Siren by Kristina Elyse Butke
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Sometimes love is a curse, a twisted, unnatural obsession.
Such is the dark magic of a siren’s song, the power of which half-siren Lirien witnesses for himself as he watches his mother sing his father, the King of Ardeth, into the sea. In a fruitless attempt to reverse his father’s fate, Lirien sings the siren song himself, not knowing its true power is seduction. Instead, he ensnares his stepmother, the Queen, with its hypnotic melody.
When Lirien refuses her desperate advances, she turns to forbidden magic to force her love on him. But wishing upon a havoc stone is an invitation to chaos. The queen’s own son and daughters, Lirien’s beloved siblings, are whisked away and transformed into animals. They flee the kingdom, and Lirien chases after them, his beautiful voice also gone.
Through elven mountains, fae forests, and siren waters, Lirien will stop at nothing to find and save his family. Threats come at him from all sides, but there are allies, too—Kitra, a shapeshifting fae fox who vows vengeance on the Queen for killing her brother, and Brandegil, an elf who can awaken the sacred sword Alibrandr to help break the spell on the children.
Together, they’ll bring the stars raining down from the heavens if that’s what it takes to save Lirien’s family, but there’s still the matter of breaking the spell on the Queen. And Lirien’s own deadly curse haunts him should he stray too long from the sea.
Looking for book recs…
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