Friday Fun - July 27th, 2018

Welcome to my Friday Fun post. This is where I share with two different book parties that post on Fridays: Book Beginnings on Friday and the Friday 56.

I am currently participating in the summer reading program for adults at my library, so I have quite a few books out of the library. However, I only have one book I'd like to share today. I have been quite obsessed with the Keeper of the Lost Cities books I took out several weeks ago, and have been having a very hard time putting them down. I finished Neverseen a few days ago, and started right in with Lodestar.

Keeper of the Lost Cities: Lodestar by Shannon Messenger is book five of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series that I was recently introduced to. 

It is a wonderful fantasy series about a girl who finds out the family she was living with wasn't really her family, and she isn't even really human. She goes to live with her people and finds out many strange truths about her life, getting herself into lots of disasters along the way, but also making some very close friends as she goes about trying to figure out just what her part is in this world and what nefarious secrets are being kept by those who should be trusted.

Book Beginnings on Fridays

(Please join Gilion Dumas for Book Beginnings every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name.)

Here is my book beginnings for Keeper of the Lost Cities: Lodestar by Shannon Messenger

"This is what they want. The words tumbled through Sophie's mind as she raced up the spiral staircase, counting her steps, trying to guess which door to take."

Not as nerve wracking as the preface from Neverseen, but still has me wanting to find out what is going on..

As that is really the preface, which is sharing a scene from later in the book, I decided to share the beginning of chapter one as well, like I did last week.

"''This is a security nightmare!' Sandor grumbled, keeping his huge gray hand poised over his enormous black sword. His squeaky voice reminded Sophie more of a talking mouse than a deadly bodyguard."

I was so glad to see they were back at Foxfire, the elven school, and things seemed to be back to "normal" compared to the previous book.

Now for:

The Friday 56

The Friday 56 is hosted over at Freda's Voice.

Rules:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
 *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. It's that simple.

Here is my Friday 56 selection. 

Keeper of the Lost Cities: Lodestar by Shannon Messenger

"She could feel the threads of his conviction, like roots digging deep. But whether they would hold him steady through the coming storms, she couldn't tell. She'd have to keep an eye on him."