Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. My reading this week has consisted of INSPY reading (as one of the judges in the YA category this year), but I have sooooo many books waiting once I’m finished, including Amanda Barratt’s The White Rose Resists, which I’m anxious to read (with a box of tissues by my side). Anyone else have books taunting them from their TBR pile? Oh, who am I kidding? That’s probably all of you! 😊
About the Book
The ideal of a new Germany swept up Sophie Scholl in a maelstrom of patriotic fervor–that is, until she realized the truth behind Hitler’s machinations for the fatherland. Now she and other students in Munich, the cradle of the Nazi government, have banded together to form a group to fight for the truth: the White Rose. Risking everything to print and distribute leaflets calling for Germans to rise up against the evil permeating their country, the White Rose treads a knife’s edge of discovery by the Gestapo.
Annalise Brandt came to the University of Munich to study art, not get involved with conspiracy. The daughter of an SS officer, she’s been brought up to believe in the Führer’s divinely appointed leadership. But the more she comes to know Sophie and her friends, the more she questions the Nazi propaganda.
Soon Annalise joins their double life–students by day, resisters by night. And as the stakes increase, they’re all forced to confront the deadly consequences meted out to any who dare to oppose the Reich.
A gripping testament to courage, The White Rose Resists illuminates the sacrifice and conviction of an unlikely group of revolutionaries who refused to remain silent-no matter the cost.
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. 🙂
My first line is from IF I WERE YOU. By Lynn Austin:
Prologue. London, November, 1945
Eve Dawson bolted upright in bed.
What an interesting book this sounds like! Have a great weekend!!
Happy Friday!!
Over on my blog I shared the first line from the Mayflower Bride by Kimberly Woodhouse
“A splinter of wood pierced Mary Elizabeth Chapman’s thumb as she crept behind her lifelong friend Dorothy Raynsford.”
https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/2020/06/first-line-friday-mayflower-bride.html
Your book sounds very interesting!!
Have a great weekend!
Happy Friday! My first line is from “Murder in the Family” by Ramona Richards:
” ‘Aunt Liz, you can’t keep doing this. It’s going to get you killed.’ And it had.”
Happy Friday! My first line is from At Love’s Command by Karen Witemeyer:
“According to the Good Book, there was a time for war and a time for peace.”
Have a great weekend! 😃❤📚
This sounds like an interesting read!
I’ve seen this book on social media a lot lately. It sounds interesting. Today, I’m sharing the first line from Coming Home to Maverick by Sophia Summers: “Maverick dipped his hat lower against the hot Texas sun. A man’s hat could hide a lot of things, unfortunately, not everything.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2020/06/first-line-fridays-coming-home-to.html