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…
“Halla of Rutger’s Howe had just inherited a great deal of money and was therefore spending her evening trying to figure out how to kill herself.”
Do you know this one?
This is by one of my favorite authors…
The next book in this series is coming out this summer!
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
Swordheart
Summary:
Halla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of a wealthy uncle. Unfortunately, she is also saddled with money-hungry relatives full of devious plans for how to wrest the inheritance away from her.
While locked in her bedroom, Halla inspects the ancient sword that’s been collecting dust on the wall since before she moved in. Out of desperation, she unsheathes it—and suddenly a man appears. His name is Sarkis, he tells her, and he is an immortal warrior trapped in a prison of enchanted steel.
Sarkis is sworn to protect whoever wields the sword, and for Halla—a most unusual wielder—he finds himself fending off not grand armies and deadly assassins but instead everything from kindly-seeming bandits to roving inquisitors to her own in-laws. But as Halla and Sarkis grow closer, they overlook the biggest threat of all—the sword itself.
I think this is my all time favorite book by Kingfisher. I just loved the story, the banter between Halla and Sarkis, and the secondary characters were great too. It was just recently announced that the second book in the series, Daggerbound, is finally being released this summer and I am so excited to read that one! I hope we don’t have to wait too long for the third book.
Were you able to guess this one? Are you excited for the sequel this summer? Which Kingfisher book is your favorite? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 
This is such a good book and I’m really looking forward to Daggerheart later in the year
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