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
56% Snippet
Book Reveal
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.
Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.
As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.
Reasons to Read
✿ Librarians living their best lives, slaying bookish fiends.
✿ Conspiracy and intrigue and secrets and danger.
✿ Beautifully descriptive dark fantasy setting.
✿ Super sexy demon who can have whatever’s left of my soul.
✿ Dark, brooding love interest who’s got my attention now, thanks.
✿ Grimoires with personalities, both terrifying and cute
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: pastel cover.
I love color themes, but I’m also bad at colors, so if some of these aren’t actually pastel … well, my bad. Just squint a lot.
Middle grade, unsurprisingly, seems like a good place to find pastel book covers, so A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying and Voyage of the Frostheart were actually top of mind. They both seem like fun, funny, quest-driven stories, and I’m excited to pick them up!
It may seem a little contradictory that I Remember You has a spot on a pastel list, being a horror novel and everything, but I’m really feeling all the pastels in the sky!
It may come as no surprise that blue is my favorite color, so this list maaay be heavily skewed towards pastel blue. How can you not love the color scheme on the Crown of Bones cover?
Also, I’m not sure if the cover of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky is actually pastel, but it’s bright colors and I just recently bought it and it’s super pretty, so really, that’s close enough, right?!
Sorcery of Thorns is on my list too😁 Can’t wait to read your review!
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I hope you enjoy it when you get to it! It’s a fun read so far.
Not my usual read, but the blurb caught my attention, and I liked the excerpts. Thanks for sharing, and here’s mine: “HOME BEFORE DARK”
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It’s been really good so far!
I loved Sorcery of Thorns & would love more books set in/around library’s! Great post ☺️
Yes! There seems to be more lately, which I love, and I wonder why it hasn’t been more of a thing before this. I mean, duh. What’s the one place pretty much all bookish people love? Have you read Library of the Unwritten or Ink and Bone yet? Similar sort of premises with being focused around libraries!
No! But they’re both pretty much at the top of my TBR and I am dying to read them… just need to stop requesting books on Netgalley first.
That is a struggle that I wish I could say I wasn’t familiar with. xD But alas, that’s not the case.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Sorcery of Thorns. It seems like a good story, and I like the quotes.
Breana M. recently posted…The Friday 56 (181) & Book Beginnings: A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney
Definitely one I’d recommend!
Happy Friday!
On my blog I’m sharing the first lines from Start With Me by Kara Issac: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2020/07/10/first-line-friday-143/. It’s a fantastic novel! Currently I’m reading The Trouble With Love by Toni Shiloh so I’ll share from there.
“If I was going on a non-date with Waldorf Emmett Bell, I wanted to look my best.”
Hope you have a wonderful weekend! 😀❤📚
Nicole Santana recently posted…First-Line Friday #143
OOOoooohhhh sounds good!! Happy weekend!
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It’s been fantastic so far, and it’s one of those rare fantasy *stand-alones* which is nice once in a while.
The book for your quotes sounds great! A good dark fantasy sounds like just what I need for distraction lately. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Oh man, I love dark fantasies, so if you ever need recommendations, I’ve got you covered. 😉 I’m really enjoying this one so far, too.
I need to read this. It sounds so cool!
You should! It’s really neat, and I’d absolutely love to see more of this world (even though it’s a standalone).
Sounds AMAZING!! Also, that first line caught my interest..
Konna @ The Reading Armchair recently posted…Book Beginnings / Friday 56 – The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides
It’s a great first line, isn’t it?! I’ll be finishing this tonight, but oh my gosh, it’s been a RIDE.
Ughhh, why can I not travel to a world with magical libraries, demon-fueled sorcery, badass librarians, and Nathaniel (and Silas)?!?
Also, YESSSS to What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky!! I read that book last summer (and got to meet the author in February because she visited my college) and it is sooo good! It’s a great mix of myth, fantasy, and sci-fi vibes across the tales and I remember devouring the stories like candy. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the book!
Keri @ Are You My Book? recently posted…WWW Wednesday: July 8th, 2020
Right? Biggest disappointment of my life. We could even go together. Work in the same library. You can have Nathaniel and I’ll take Silas, and we can always hang out together. See? It’s perfect.
I’m kinda jealous that you got to meet the author. That sounds really neat. Looking forward to reading it now that I’ve got my hands on it! 😀
For once I knew one, yay! I really loved this book, I need to reread it. 🙂
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I’m almost done, and I’ve really liked it, too! I need me a Silas. 😉
Cute grimoires? That’s… unexpected…
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It definitely is. Don’t get me wrong, there are absolutely terrifying ones. But the lesser classes that aren’t as much of a threat? I could see having a house full of those.