Friday Fun - March 21, 2025

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

This week I have two books to share with you.

I read Waylaid by Jerusha Agen which releases next week..

I'm reading These Long Shadows by Jennifer Mistmorgan which released today.

        Book Beginnings on Friday     

(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.)

and

First Line Friday

(Please join Carrie for First Line Friday.)

Here are my Book Beginnings/First Line Friday selections:

  Waylaid by Jerusha Agen:

"A pop pierced the night."

Well that doesn't sound good.

These Long Shadows by Jennifer Mistmorgan

"The restaurant swam around her, but at least the nausea had eased enough for her to be out of bed."

I was curious why she was in a restaurant if she wasn't feeling well.

Now for:

The Friday 56

The Friday 56 is normally hosted over at Freda's Voice. But Anne from My Head is Full of Books is taking over for a while. 

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 are my Friday 56 selections:

Waylaid by Jerusha Agen:

 

"He probably shouldn't admit he'd seen the message. Could get him on the wrong foot with her. But his gut told him she was in far worse trouble than the confession would bring him. He'd take the risk. 'I saw that text.'"

These Long Shadows by Jennifer Mistmorgan

"Begging for her life. 
He blinked away the thought as his breath quickened. 
But the blinking didn't help. He simply opened his eyes to a new, more horrifying vision of her with a red-rimmed bullet hole between her eyes."

Reviews:

Last week I shared one book in my Friday Fun post. I am still reading that book. 

Two weeks ago I shared two books in my Friday Fun post. I finished both of them, but have only had the chance to write the review for one of them:

The Scarlet Ribbon by Naomi Stephens

And here is my review for Waylaid by Jerusha Agen