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!
Got it? Okay let’s go! Here is the quote…
“Can you hear it yet? A sound so subtle your heart mistakes it for the first blush of dawn before the sun kisses the darkness from the horizon.”
Do you know this one?
Wow, isn’t that beautiful?
Makes you want to read more, doesn’t it?
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
The Malevolent Eight
Summary from Netgalley:
The stakes have never been higher.
The world is teetering on the brink of annihilation. The Lords Celestine and the Lords Devilish, celestial and infernal beings locked in an age-old enmity, have at last found the perfect battlefield for their apocalyptic Great Crusade: the mortal realm.
Cade Ombra, former Glorian Justiciar turned mercenary wonderist, leads a band of emotionally unstable mages in a desperate bid to prevent the impending clash of divine and diabolical titans. Failure will leave humanity to be conscripted into an eternal war, serving as foot soldiers doomed to oblivion.
The mission seems impossible, but Cade and the Malevolent Seven aren’t exactly pacifists, so they’re determined to bring peace no matter how many people they have to kill first. With wit as sharp as their blades and a moral compass that points only toward survival, they’re ready to cut down anyone in their path to stop the war before it begins.
So looking forward to reading this second book in this series. I really enjoyed The Malevolent Seven and am enjoying my reread as well. Anyone want to take a guess what the creature in the background is? I know for a fact it’s not a dragon. Let me know what you think it is in the comments.
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