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…
“The smell of wilting flowers and spent candles almost mask the odor of decay. Raef pressed against a statue and fought to keep from trembling as the knight with the flaming sword paced nearer.”
Do you know this one?
This is the start to the first book in a great epic fantasy series…
The second book just came out this week…
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
Dark Moon, Shallow Sea
Summary from Goodreads:
Raef wants revenge on the knights who killed his goddess, the moon. Her death darkened the night sky, stopped the tides, and left the shades of the dead without a path to the underworld.
Seeking revenge, Raef breaks into the knights’ temple and opens a box, expecting to find gold and jewels among the bones. Instead, he finds a living man, Kinos, sleeping inside.
Raef steals Kinos.
As they run from the knights and grow closer, Raef thinks he’s found a friend, love, and perhaps a secret that may lead to his goddess’s return. If they can’t solve the mystery of Kinos’s imprisonment, the moon will never rise again and the world will drown in ghosts.
I really enjoyed both books so far in this series. The second book, Silent Paths of Night, just came out this week. If you enjoy epic fantasies with brilliant world building and characters you will love, then this is one you need to get your hands on.
What do you think? Have you heard about this book? Is it on your TBR? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 