First Line Friday!

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

First Line Friday.

"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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"When the phone rang for the fifth time in as many minutes, Alexys considered throwing it through the window." —Grace Viall, (MOSTLY) HUMAN RESOURCES

This book sounds fabulous. Can't wait to read it.

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First Line Friday.

Everyone tells you to start in medias res. It is Horace, praising Homer for skipping the Trojan War's backstory: "at once he brings his hearer to the heart and soul of things."

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9175

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"Good news, Heaven," announces my dipshit husband. "I've made a new king of the mortals."

Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell

First Line Friday!

The Bane of Amstairis trilogy
Blood And War
Chapter four: Business

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"The skeleton was sleeping in the snow, its tea-stained bones scattered like freckles across a pale face." —Frances White, THE BONE DOOR

This is probably the 2026 release I'm most excited to read, and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

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I have seen the sun, despite what my day-brother might say.

Equinox by David Towsey

First Line Friday.

Edith Wharton, 1925: "no conclusion can be right which is not latent in the first page."

Poe wanted the ending settled before the first line was written. Wharton wants it already visible in that line.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72446

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First Line Friday!
From Blood And War, chapter 3: Brawling

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