It’s time to play “guess that book” and also watch our TBRs weep.
Book Beginnings is hosted by Rose City Reader and is all about the first line of a current/upcoming read. Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda’s Voice, where you turn to page 56 (or 56%) in what you’re reading a find a snippet that jumps out at you.
First Lines
Which summed up Park and Ainia’s evening.
56% Snippet
Isaac smiled and rested his hands on the back of the chairs as if it were a podium. “If you knew me better, you’d know I’ve always been a problem. Representative Fay? Do I call you Reverend Fray? The Reverend Representative Fray is a mouthful.”
“I’m sure your mouth can handle it.”
Book Reveal
Welcome to the dangerous, clandestine world of ESPionage. Welcome to The Strip, where operatives on the fringe command teams of ‘Cards’: Agents cursed with subtle, specialized, and sometimes sloppy psychic powers. Dr Ken Park, Korean-American psychologist and spy, dares to lead six of these Cards. Together, they tackle esoteric threats the Department of Homeland Security cannot.
Park takes his team to Africa to retrieve the Faith Machine. Built by the Soviets to turn prayers into suffering, the psychotronic device fell into the hands of a demented warlord. Tragically, the mission fails and the madman slaughters hundreds of innocents while the machine burns.
They return to the States in disgrace, and into an ambush by the mysterious and brutal Casemen. Cut off from command and each other, the scattered agents rush to their safe house in the west. While spy agencies from around the world want retribution for the catastrophe in Africa. Park’s team outplays enemies left and right, while uncovering the true threat. There’s another Faith Machine, one destined to bring hell on earth.
Reasons to Read
✿ Superpowers (ish) with a twist!
✿ A whole book full of antiheroes.
✿ Kickass action sequences.
✿ Short chapters with a fast pace.
✿ Sarcastic characters who have been through things.
✿ Interesting play on faith and religion.
This is a weekly meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook meant to take place on Mondays, but since Fridays tend to be my TBR-focused post, I’ve decided to combine them here. Next Monday’s prompt is: Sirens and water creatures. I’m going to interpret this one loosely as books about water, because … I don’t read a lot of water creature books.
Pirates are totally water creatures, right?! I’m pretty sure they count. I’ve heard such wonderful things about Dark Shores, and I’m really eager to pick it up, because pirates and meddlesome gods? Yes, please, I want some of that.
Another pirate book! Because pirates are awesome. Ship of Shadows is a middle grade book about a crew of ruthless women pirates. This sounds like a book I need (and best of all, I’ll be reading this one soon with The Write Reads blog tour).
For Orphans of the Tide, the allusion to water is even in the title! A mysterious boy washed up on shore, and a god who drowned the world? Heck yes.
I have somehow still never read a book by Nnedi Okorafur, even though pretty much all of her books are on my TBR. Lagoon is perfect for this prompt, though. It’s set in Nigeria, and I’ve been loving all the books I’ve been reading lately set there. Plus, this says it’s superhero comics combined with Nigerian mythology and yes. Just so much yes.
This one’s a little bit of a stretch, but it has water in the title, so I’m still totally counting it. The Water Dancer sounds like it’ll be a tough read, about a slave attempt to escape into freedom. I’m so curious about the fact that a near-death experience with almost drowning leads him to have water powers? Interested to see how that plays out.
Lagoon is so good! Read it😁
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Happy Friday!
Today on my blog, I’m sharing the first couple of lines from Molly by Sarah Monzon: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2020/07/03/first-line-friday-142/. I’m currently on chapter 6, so I will share from there.
“An eighty-hour work week — that’s all the hospital was allowed to work the interns and residents per the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. But when I’d gently reminded Dr. Feinburg of that fact after he’d assigned me to continue care for the patient admitted earlier, I’d been loudly and matter-of-factly put in my place.”
Hope you have a great weekend filled with family fun and relaxing reading time. 😀❤📚
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Yes, ma’am! *salutes* I’m also going to totally blame you during next month’s book haul, though, because neither of my libraries has the ebook, which means I need to order it, so obviously I have to order enough books for free shipping, and now what have you done?! 😛
Oooh, this sounds so good! Thanks for sharing! Hope you have a great weekend! 🙂
It was a pretty fun read!
Sonds ironically funny. 🙂 Happy Independence day weekend!
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It definitely is! Was kinda dark, but also with a dark, dry humor, and I really liked the combination.
This sounds really good. Have a great weekend!
It was definitely a fun read!
I like those short chapters too. 🙂 This sounds like a fun book. I hope you enjoy it! Pirates definitely count as water creatures. 🙂 I enjoyed reading your list. I hope you have a great weekend. Stay safe and well.
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Thank you! I did end up enjoying it, and it went faster than it felt like it would (probably because of the short chapters).