First Line Friday 56 || Librarians That Slay

Posted July 10, 2020 by Sammie in #5OnMyTBR, #amreading, Book Beginnings, First Line Friday, Friday 56 / 25 Comments

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.

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First Lines



Night fell as death rode into the Great Library of Summershall. It arrived within a carriage.
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56% Snippet



“Can you even begin to imagine what drove me to choose an eternity of isolation over the attentions of my dear old friend? I left everything behind. My real body became a mindless, drooling husk. But that is what Cornelius would have done to me anyway when he finished tearing my mind apart. At least this way I was able to thwart him, the devil.” Prendergast spoke with sudden ferocity. “He will never have it. And neither will you.”
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Book Reveal



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Sorcery of Thorns

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.



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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

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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.

A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying     Voyage of the Frostheart     I Remember You     Crown of Bones     What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky


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?!

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Stay Fierce, Sammie

25 responses to “First Line Friday 56 || Librarians That Slay

    • 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!

  1. 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! 😀❤📚
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  2. 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.

    • You should! It’s really neat, and I’d absolutely love to see more of this world (even though it’s a standalone).

  3. 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!
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    • 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! 😀

    • 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.

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