I’ve been wanting to get more involved with all the weekly postings, book tags, and interact more with the book bloggers here. But I didn’t really know where to start. Then I saw this one and thought, Hey, that’s pretty easy. Let’s start there. Anyways, I’m technically posting this on a Saturday, but I believe for the Americans, it’s still Friday, and it’s the thought that counts, right?
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers: What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? I saw this on dinipandareads but it was originally hosted by Wandering Words (I tried to look for the original link but couldn’t find any that opened for me).
Rules:
> 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!
First Lines:
“You’ve killed me. Bastards, you’ve killed me! while the sun is still hot, I die!”
–Collected on the fifth day of the week Chach of the month Betab of the year 1171, ten seconds before death. Subject was a darkeyed soldier thirty-one years of age. Sample is considered questionable.
I’m going to die, aren’t I?” Cenn asked
The weathered veteran beside Cenn turned and inspected him. The veteran wore a full beard, cut short. At the sides, the black hairs were starting to give way to grey.
I’m going to die, Cenn thought, clutching his spear–the shaft slick with sweat. I’m going to die. Oh, Stormfather. I’m going to die…
any guesses?
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.
It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.
One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.
Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.
The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.
Speak again the ancient oaths:
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
and return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
Well, since I’m currently reading Rhythm of War, which is book four, I thought I’d share first lines from the first book in the series. How’d I do? Anyways, feel free to tag me in any book tags or any other shenanigans you’ve got going on. I’ve recently stumbled upon something called ‘free time,’ and by that, I mean a long weekend. Cheers.
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