Welll hello beautiful people! It’s First Lines Friday today.

First Lines Friday is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words, or, as her blog is going by now, Emma IRL. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author, or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!

The Lines:

” Death is a part if life,” Orka whispered in her son’s ear. Even though Breca’s arm was drawn back, the ash-spear gripper tight in his small, white-knuckled fist and the spearhead aimed at the reindeer in front of them, she could see the hesitation in his eyes, in the set of his jaw.

Intrigued?

The Book:

The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwyne

A century has passed since the gods fought and drove themselves to extinction. Now only their bones remain, promising great power to those brave enough to seek them out.

As whispers of war echo across the land of Vigrid, fate follows in the footsteps of three warriors: a huntress on a dangerous quest, a noblewoman pursuing battle fame, and a thrall seeking vengeance among the mercenaries known as the Bloodsworn.

All three will shape the fate of the world as it once more falls under the shadow of the gods.

I’m not gonna lie, part of why I got this book was that amazing cover. The premise doesn’t sound that bad either. I haven’t read a big epic fantasy in a while and I’ve heard great things about this one. What do you think?