Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I have some exciting news for you today, particularly if you love biblical fiction. I now have a Biblical Fiction Finder on my website! You can find it in the menu or by going to this page: fictionaficionado.com/biblical-fiction-finder/
In celebration, my first line pick for today is the first line from chapter one of Mesu Andrews’ next release, Isaiah’s Legacy, which releases in February 2020. It’s still a little way off yet, but I have a feeling it will be here before we know it!
About the Book
At eight years old, Shulle has known only life in a small village with her loving but peculiar father. When Uncle Shebna offers shelter in Jerusalem in exchange for Shulle’s help tutoring King Manasseh, Judah’s five-year-old co-regent who displays the same peculiarities as her father, she’s eager to experience the royal court. But Shulle soon realizes the limits of her father’s strict adherence to Yahweh’s Law when Uncle Shebna teaches her of the starry hosts and their power.
Convinced Judah must be freed from Yahweh’s chains, she begins the subtle swaying of young Manasseh, using her charm and skills on the boy no one else understands. When King Hezekiah dies, twelve-year-old Manasseh is thrust onto Judah’s throne, bitter at Yahweh and eager to marry the girl he adores. Assyria’s crown prince favors Manasseh and twists his brilliant mind toward cruelty, beginning Shulle’s long and harrowing journey to discover the Yahweh she’d never known, guided with loving wisdom by Manasseh’s mother: Isaiah’s daughter, the heartbroken Hephzibah. Amid Judah’s dark days, a desperate remnant emerges, claiming the Lord’s promise, “Though we’re helpless now, we’re never hopeless–because we serve El Shaddai.” Shulle is among them, a girl who becomes a queen through Isaiah’s legacy.
First Line
I’d love it if you’d share the first line of whatever you’re currently reading in the comments. And don’t forget, you can find out what other bloggers are sharing for First Line Friday by going over to Hoarding Books blog and finding all the links. If you’ve got your own blog, why not join in and add your link over there. 🙂
What a fascinating premise.
Over on my blog, I’m sharing the first line of Marisol – Spanish Rose by Elva Cobb Martin, so here I’ll share one of my favorite lines from the same book:
Maybe he should be guarding his heart from her, protecting himself from another loss, but he’d already given too much of himself to her. His heart was no longer his to guard.
It was not the best hiding spot I had ever found, but it was, thankfully, proving quite effective.
SECRETS and SUITORS by Joanna Barker
Lovely line! Happy Friday!!
I can’t wait to read this one!
Today on my blog I shared the first line from Deadly Deceit by Natalie Walters but I’m currently reading How the Light Gets In by Jolina Petersheim so I’ll share the first line from my current chapter (9) here: Elam Albrecht didn’t have many needs.” Hope you have a great weekend! Happy reading 🙂
My first lines are from Hope’s Highest Mountain by Misty Beller:
My Darling Rachel,
You were everything to me. You still are. Don’t ever forget that.
On my blog I’m sharing the first line from Because of You by Becky Wade, however I finished it last night and am now reading Stitched in Time by Suzanne Woods Fisher. I’ll share the first line of that book here. “It took a lot to shock Luke Schrock.”
I am sooooo looking forward to Isaiah’s Legacy! Today I’m sharing the first line from One Final Breath by Lynn H. Blackburn: “It didn’t get much better than this.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/10/first-line-fridays-one-final-breath-by.html
Happy Friday! My first line is from Wyatt: The Montana Marshalls” by Susan May Warren:
“Usually Wyatt, goalie for the Minnesota Blue Ox NHL team, could shrug off his mistakes.”
Hi Katie, Happy Saturday! That’s an intriguing opening line. Your Biblical Fiction Finder sounds like a useful reader resource. 🙂
I’m sharing on my blog the first line from Grace in the Shadows by Christine Dillon.
It was love at first sight.
Happy Saturday!
Yesterday on my blog I shared the first line from The Painted Castle by Kristy Cambron: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/10/17/first-line-friday-106/. I’m currently reading Always Look Twice by Elizabeth Goddard, so I’ll share a line from that book.
“For some reason he would never understand, Heath always ended up assisting someone in the direst of circumstances.”
Hope you’re having a good weekend! 🙂❤📖