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? If you want to make your own post, feel free to use or edit the banner above, and follow the rules below:
- 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 (I cheat a little bit here 😉)
- Finally… reveal the book!
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Hello, reader!
I’m so glad it’s Friday and I actually have the weekend off. It’s supposed to be a cold one, but I’m just happy to have two days off in a row 😂 In celebration of some free time, let’s do a First Lines Friday! This week, I’m featuring a book that I’ve been eager to read since I got it in a book box. And, honestly, since it came out! This book is on both my “12 friends, 12 recommendations” TBR and my “22 in 2022” TBR and I’m doing a buddy read for it this week. I’m so excited to get started.
Let’s see if the first few lines can get me even more excited about picking it up!
The Line(s):
“In the court of the imperial mahal, the pyre was being built.
The fragrance of the gardens drifted in through the high windows – sweet roses, and even sweeter imperial needle-flower, pale and fragile, growing in such thick profusion that it poured in through the lattice, its white petals unfurled against the sandstone walls. The priests flung petals on the pyre, murmuring prayers as the servants carried in wood and arranged it carefully, applying camphor and ghee, scattering drops of perfumed oil.”
The Hints:
This book is part of the “sapphic trifecta”.
It is the first book in a new fantasy series inspired by the history and epics of India.
It has an absolutely gorgeous cover 😍
Kerri McBookNerd 