Friday Firsts: Morning Star (Red Rising #3) by Pierce Brown #RRSciFiMonth
25 November 2016
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Tags: #RRSciFiMonth, Friday Firsts, Morning Star, Pierce Brown, Red Rising
Friday Firsts is a new meme that runs every Friday over on Tenacious Reader. The idea is to feature the first few sentences/paragraph of your current book and try and outline your first impressions as a result. This is a quick and easy way to share a snippet of information about your current read and to perhaps tempt others. Stop on by and link up with Tenacious Reader. As this month is Sci fi Month 2016 my book today is a science fiction novel that I’ve been wanting to read for some time. I’m very excited to pick this one up as it’s the conclusion to a brilliant series and I need to know how it all ends!!
I rise into darkness, away from the garden they watered with the blood of my friends. The Golden man who killed my wife lies dead beside me on the cold metal deck, life snuffed out by his own son’s hand.”
Autumn wind whips my hair. The ship rumbles beneath. In the distance, friction flames shred the night with brilliant orange. The Telemanuses descending from orbit to rescue me. Better that they do not. Better to let the darkness have me and allow the vultures to squabble over my paralysed body.
My enemy’s voices echo behind me. Towering demons with the faces of angels. The smallest of them bends. Stroking my head as he looks down at his dead father.
“This is always how the story would end,” he says to me. “Not with your screams. Not with your rage. But with your silence.”
My First Impressions
Well, that’s intriguing. Watch this space!
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Friday Firsts: The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis #RRSciFiMonth
18 November 2016
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Friday Firsts is a new meme that runs every Friday over on Tenacious Reader. The idea is to feature the first few sentences/paragraph of your current book and try and outline your first impressions as a result. This is a quick and easy way to share a snippet of information about your current read and to perhaps tempt others. Stop on by and link up with Tenacious Reader. As this month is Sci fi Month 2016 my book today is a science fiction novel that I’ve been wanting to read for some time. Wolf Road by Beth Lewis:
‘I sat up high, oak branch ‘tween my knees, and watched the tattooed man stride about in the snow. Pictures all over his face, no skin left no more, just ink and blood. Looking for me, he was. Always looking for me. He left red drops in the white, fallen from his fish knife. Not fish blood though. Man blood. Boy blood. Lad from Tucket lost his scalp to that knife. Scrap of hair and pink hung from the man’s belt. That was dripping too, hot and fresh. He’d left the body in the thicket for the wolves to find.
I blew smoky breath into my hands.
‘You’re a long way from home, Kreager,’ I called down.
The trees took my voice and scattered it to pieces. Winter made skeletons of the forest, see, made camouflage tricky ‘less you know what you’re doing, and I know exactly what I’m doing. He weren’t going to find no tracks nor footprints nowhere in this forest what weren’t his, I know better’n that. Kreager looked all around, up high and ‘neath brushes, but I’ve always been good at hiding.’
My First Impressions
Wow – this doesn’t mess around does it. What a great start, I’m totally fascinated to know what’s going on here. This Kreager sounds a real place of work – I’d be hiding in the trees too I think. Can’t wait to carry on.
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Friday Firsts: Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff #RRSciFiMonth
11 November 2016
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Tags: #RRSciFiMonth, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, Friday Firsts, Illuminae, tenacious reader
Friday Firsts is a new meme that runs every Friday over on Tenacious Reader. The idea is to feature the first few sentences/paragraph of your current book and try and outline your first impressions as a result. This is a quick and easy way to share a snippet of information about your current read and to perhaps tempt others. Stop on by and link up with Tenacious Reader. As this month is Sci fi Month 2016 my book today is a science fiction novel that I’ve been wanting to read for some time. Illuminae by Amie Kaurman and Jay Kristoff
My First Impressions
Well, it appears that Illuminae is going to be told in the epistolary style – which I love – think Bram Stoker’s Dracula or The Three by Sarah Lotz as two fine examples. From reading the start of this email it appears that some sort of corporate secret/conspiracy is being uncovered *wiggles eyebrows*. As to who is doing the revealing or why remains to be seen – from the memo above I’m thinking we’re going to find out the answers to those two key questions and perhaps experience a little of the danger that they went through to uncover this ‘dirt’!
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Friday Firsts: Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel #RRSciFiMonth
4 November 2016
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Friday Firsts is a new meme that runs every Friday over on Tenacious Reader. The idea is to feature the first few sentences/paragraph of your current book and try and outline your first impressions as a result. This is a quick and easy way to share a snippet of information about your current read and to perhaps tempt others. Stop on by and link up with Tenacious Reader. As this month is Sci fi Month 2016 my book today is a science fiction novel that I’ve had on my shelves for a while now.
‘The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored. This was act 4 of King Lear, a winter night at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. Earlier in the evening, three little girls had played a clapping game onstage as the audience entered, childhood versions of Lear’s daughters, and now they’d returned as hallucinations in the mad scene. The king tumbled and reached for them as they flitted here and there in the shadows. His name was Arthur Leander. He was fifty-one years old and there were flowers in his hair.
“Dost thou know me?” the actor playing Gloucester asked. “I remember thine eyes well enough,” Arthur said, distracted by the child version of Cordelia, and this was when it happened. There was a change in his face, he stumbled, he reached for a column but misjudged the distance and struck it hard with the side of his hand.’
Station Eleven – which is your favourite cover: I like both and they’re so completely different but on balance I think the dark cover would attract my attention more.
My First Impressions
I really don’t know what to expect from this book and I’m not sure that opening really gives much away! But, I’m really looking forward to this book so, here goes..
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Friday Firsts: The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
28 October 2016
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Tags: Ami McKay, Friday Firsts, The Tenacious Reader, The Witches of New Hork
Friday Firsts is a new meme that runs every Friday over on Tenacious Reader. The idea is to feature the first few sentences/paragraph of your current book and try and outline your first impressions as a result. This is a quick and easy way to share a snippet of information about your current read and to perhaps tempt others. Stop on by and link up with Tenacious Reader.
In the dusky haze of evening a ruddy-cheeked newsboy strode along Fifth Avenue proclaiming the future. “The great Egyptian obelisk is about to land on our shores! The Brooklyn Bridge set to become the Eighth Wonder of the World! Broadway soon to glow with electric light!” In his wake, a crippled man shuffled, spouting prophecies of his own. “God’s judgement is upon us! The end of the world is night!”
New York had become a city of astonishments. Wonders and marvels came so frequent and fast, a day without spectacle was cause for concern.
The Witches of New York by Ami McKay with two covers – which is your favourite (I rather like the first).
My First Impressions
I think that’s a good opener – it sets the scene in a way – to expect anything and everything. And it made me smile a little with the dire predictions about the end of the world.
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Books and travelling with Lynn 