Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. This week I’ve finally been able to pick up a book I’ve heard early readers raving about for a few weeks: Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes. So far the story is definitely living up to the hype.
If you want to get a taste for Amanda’s writing (which is gorgeous!), she has a free prequel novella available. You can find out more in my Discover a New Author post. If you love lyrical writing and an atmospheric story, I highly recommend you check her out!
About the Book
Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help. What she didn’t anticipate was finding a wall of heavy boxes hiding in his home. Long-ago memories of stone ruins on a nearby island trigger her curiosity, igniting a fire in her anthropologist soul to uncover answers.
She joins forces with the handsome and mysterious harbor postman, and all her hopes of mending the decades-old chasm in her family seem to point back to the ruins. But with Robert failing fast, her search for answers battles against time, a foe as relentless as the ever-crashing waves upon the sea.
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. 🙂
This sounds like an emotional read.
I’m currently reading The Trail Boss’s Bride and shared that first line over on my blog where I’m also hosting a giveaway. So here I will share the first line of the chapter I’m currently reading:
There were few things more hair-raising than the threat of a cattle stampede in the teeth of a nighttime thunderstorm.
Enjoy your book! Here are the first two lines from a book I am looking forward to — Living Lies by Natalie Walters. “Just let go. The breeze lifted Lane Kent’s auburn hair from the back of her neck.”
Happy Friday!
Today on my blog, I am sharing the first few lines from The Heart of a King by Jill Eileen Smith: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/05/02/first-line-friday-85/. I am beginning chapter 20 so I will leave the first line from there.
“Abishag’s mood slipped into melancholy as the months continued on after King David’s death, a mood she had not experienced to any great length since her mother had passed into Sheol.”
Hope you have an excellent weekend. Happy reading! 🙂💚📚
I’ve seen so many rave reviews for this book! Hopefully I’ll get the time to read this one too!
Today on my blog I shared the first line from The Refuge by Ann Gabhart but my next read I’ll be starting shortly is Shadow Among Sheaves by Naomi Stephens so I’ll share the first line from the prologue here: “The sun was the same, but that was all.” Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Happy Reading!
Happy Weekend! My first line is from “Sweet on You” by Becky Wade, and I can hardly wait to start it!
“Five hundred and eleven days had passed since he’d seen her last.”
I am so looking forward to this book! Happy Friday! I’m sharing from The Pink Bonnet by Liz Tolsma on my blog today, but here’s the first line from chapter two of my current read, When Mountains Move by Julie Cantrell:
“There’s something romantically hopeful about having a wedding in the middle of a war.”
I’m so late in getting around to everyone! I’m sharing the first lines from When He Found Me by Victoria Bylin:
“Shane Riley yanked his wet Levi’s out of a grimy washing machine, one of twenty or so in a Laundromat straight out of 1992.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/05/first-line-fridays-when-he-found-me-by.html