A blessed Good Friday to you, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I have an Easter-themed book for you today—one that I’ve been wanting to read for a while but have only just purchased thanks to a gift card I received recently (don’t you love gift cards?): Iscariot by Tosca Lee.
Of all the biblical characters to choose to write about, I think Judas Iscariot would have to be one of the most difficult, but I’ve heard good things about this book. It’s not quite at the top of my TBR yet, but I really hope I’ll get to read it soon, now that I’ve been able to purchase it!
In the meantime, I pray you all have a blessed Easter as we remember the sacrifice to end all sacrifices!
About the Book
Based on extensive research into the life and times of Judas Iscariot, this triumph of fiction storytelling by the author of Havah: The Story of Eve revisits one of biblical history’s most maligned figures and brings the world he inhabited vividly to life.
In Jesus, Judas believes he has found the One—the promised Messiah and future king of the Jews, destined to overthrow Roman rule. Galvanized, he joins Nazarene’s followers, ready to enact the change he has waited for all his life. But soon Judas’s vision of a nation free from Rome is crushed by the inexplicable actions of Nazarene himself, who will not bow to social or religious convention—and seems, in the end, to even turn against his own people. At last, Judas confronts the fact that the master he loves is not the liberator he hoped for, but a man bent on a drastically different agenda.
Praised as “an absolute must-read” (New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker), Iscariot is the story of Judas, from his tumultuous childhood to his emergence as the man who betrayed Jesus. But even more, it is a singular and surprising view into the life of Jesus that forces us to reexamine everything we thought we knew about the most famous—and infamous—religious icons in history.
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. 🙂
I really, really liked Iscariot. I am currently reading The Legend of Sheba by Lee for my Bible study/book club. Here’s the first line from the book I received last night from UPS!
“Elsie closed her eyes for a moment and breathed in the steamy air, imagining she stood beside Grand Pinnacle Spring instead of the massive laundry boiler in the back of the Mammoth Hot Springs Lodge.” — Ever Faithful by Karen Barnett
Have a wonderful Easter weekend!
Iscariot sounds AMAZING. Gotta get that on my TBR list asap.
Currently reading and loving Collapsible by Ruth Buchanan. “Rachel’s total life implosion came about in this way: one Wednesday morning in early April, she tripped and broke her ankle.”
Iscariot sounds so good. I definitely need to put it on my TBR list.
On my blog, I’m sharing the first line of The Artful Match by Jennifer Delamere, but I’ll share here from A Most Inconvenient Marriage by Regina Jennings. “First, you are going to write a good-bye letter to my sweetheart, and then you’re going to marry me.”
Happy Friday!
This week on my blog I am sharing the first few lines from All Made Up by Kara Isaac. It’s such a fantastic novel. I highly recommend it. You can go to my post by clicking the link: https://tinyurl.com/Friday83. Currently, I am reading Weddings, Willows, and Revised Expectations by V. Joy Palmer. It’s really good. I’m on chapter seven, so I will share a line from there.
“Don’t see me. Don’t see me. Don’t see me. ‘Courtney!’ Walk faster. Walk faster. Walk faster. ‘Courtney!’ Dallas yelled. ‘Please! We need to talk.'”
Hope you have a blessed Easter weekend. Happy reading! 🙂❤️📚
I have a copy of Iscariot waiting on my shelf… Today I’m sharing from my current read, Spring Magic by D.E. Stevenson. This is the first line from Chapter 18:
“This was the day upon which Frances had been invited to take tea at the Castle, and, as always, there were half a dozen people ready and willing to advise her how to attain her objective.”
Have a wonderful Easter weekend!
I’ve wanted to read Iscariot for awhile, but I’ve never done it… Anyway, Happy Friday! Today I’m sharing the first lines from The Edge of Mercy by Heidi Chiavaroli:
“I slipped the two rings off my finger to cradle them in my palm.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/04/first-line-fridays-edge-of-mercy-by.html
Happy Easter Katie!
Tosca Lee is so talented!
I’m sharing the first line from Elizabeth Camden’s A Daring Venture over on my blog, but in honor of this being Good Friday, I thought I’d share a few verses that have been on my heart lately – John 15:12-14.
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.
Have a great weekend! My first line is from “All for the Cause” by Gail Kittleson:
“What do you say, Lilly?”