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First Line Friday 9th October 2026: A Far-Flung Life by EL Stedman  | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2026/10/09/f...

First Line Friday 9th October 2026: A Far-Flung Life by EL Stedman  | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚 @portybelle.bsky.social portobellobookblog.com/2026/10/09/f...

First Line Friday 9th October 2026: A Far-Flung Life by EL Stedman  | #FirstLineFriday #BookSky 💙📚

This week I am sharing the first line of the book I have chosen for my book group to read. It's A Far-Flung Life by EL Stedman. We are meeting next week so for once, I'm not rushing to finish at the…

"The foreign planet loomed beneath me, hundreds of thousands of acres of deadly forest stretching in all directions, as I plummeted toward it without the protection of anything but my flightsuit." —Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson, BLIGHTFALL

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I usually don't have much time for reflection, but lately I seem to have nothing but time, and I find myself wondering - what sort of killer am I?

Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport

🐝A short story about love, loss and starting over 🌞- PERFECT DAY - Only on Fourthwall josh-lanyon-shop.fourthwall.com/products/per... #mmromance #firstlinefriday #shortstories

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From The Bane of Amstairis trilogy
Blood And War
Chapter 6: Roslynn

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This week for #FirstLineFriday I'm featuring the fantasy romance that my book club is hopefully going to tackle this month!

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Un podcasteur trop curieux et pas assez prudent. Un agent du FBI qui risque de perdre de vue ses priorités. Quelqu'un qui a déjà échappé à la justice après avoir commis un meurtre... www.amazon.fr/dp/B0GX2YXBP #firstlinefriday #romancegay #aventure

Es gibt fast nichts, was Cosmo nicht für seinen sterblichen Ehemann tun würde. Leider ist das, worum John ihn bittet, genau das, was Cosmo ihm nicht geben kann. www.amazon.de/dp/B0GMDK7CN #mmromance #Hexengeheimnis #firstlinefriday

Hooked in one line! 💥✂️

"In the morning I got Chrissie to cut off all my hair."

A fractured America, magic, gunslingers, and Russian wizards searching for Rasputin's descendant? 🌵🔮

This week's #FirstLineFriday pick is An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris.
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#FirstLineFriday - A burnt-out British spy. A kind and handsome American doctor. A whole lot of bad guys who don't believe in Happy Ever After www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0Y3P9 #MMromance #secondchanceromance

"My mother sold me to the warlord at dinner." —Hannah Kaner, A SNAKE AMONG SWANS

I loved Godkiller, and this sounds epic. Added it to my TBR.

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Before he was Chef King, he was chef de cuisine. Not in earnest yet, technically a warchef still, but proving his place atop a kitchen, after butchering his path to revolution.

Eight Tastes of Treachery by Ryan Rose

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"The very first rule in Fiction is that the human interest must absolutely absorb everything else."

Walter Besant. Which is to say: if your first page is weather and landscape, nobody is in the room yet.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76460

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A stolen work by Shakespeare, a brother and sister team of high society thieves, and a Chinese love potion spell trouble for a 1930s PI. www.amazon.com/dp/B00CCWXIT #Queerhistorical #GayMystery #FirstLineFriday

What are you reading this weekend? #fridayreads #firstlinefriday

First Line Friday!

The Bane of Amstairis trilogy
Blood And War
Chapter five: A Good Day For A Picnic

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