
Hey lovelies!
Welcome to another Friday and the mysterious and fun First Lines Friday meme created by Wandering Words. This is a weekly meme for book lovers to judge a book by its opening lines rather than by its cover, its author or its prestige.
Rules:
- Choose a book from your shelves/ current read.
- Open the book to the first page.
- Copy the first line on the page, making sure you don’t give away the book title.
- Reveal the book.

As the iron war club scythed toward her head, Yukiko couldn’t help wishing she’d listened to her father.
She rolled aside as her cover was smashed to kindling, azalea petals drifting over the oni’s shoulders like perfumed snowflakes.
The demon loomed above her, twelve feet high, all iron-tipped tusks and long, jagged fingernails.
Do you recognise which action-packed book these words come from?




This week’s book is: Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

Arashitoras are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shõgun, they fear that their lives are over – everyone knows what happens to those who fail the Lord of the Shima Isles. But the mission proves less impossible and more deadly than anyone expects. Soon Yukiko finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in her country’s last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled arashitora for company. Although she can hear his thoughts, and saved his life, all she knows for certain is he’d rather see her dead than help her. Yet trapped together in the forest, Yukiko and the beast soon discover a bond that neither of them expected.
She learns the horrifying extent of the Shõgun’s crimes, both against her country and her family. Returning to the city, Yukiko is determined to make the Shõgun pay – but what can one girl and a flightless arashitora do against the might of an empire? (Goodreads).

This sounds so good! Great post 😸
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Thanks! I’m excited to read it!
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Ooh this sounds so good! I really need to read this series!
(www.evelynreads.com)
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Thanks Evelyn! I’m eager to read this one too 😊
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I really need to pick this series up! I love Kristoff so much but still need to read this and Illuminae. Great post 😀
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Thanks Becky! I’m really excited to read this one too 😊
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Those first lines sound good! Gonna add this to my ever growing TBR list haha.
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I’m glad you liked them too! I haven’t read many of Kristoff’s solo books so I’m keen to give that a try this year!
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i’ve heard so many great things about this! great pick love 🥰
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Kristoff’s writing has been one of my fav discoveries of last year. Hopefully this one is as much fun to read as the last were! 💙
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