Friday Fun - September 22, 2023

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

This week I have two books to share with you. 

I am reading an ARC of The Secrets Beneath by Kimberley Woodhouse as a member of her early launch team. This is the first book in her Treasures of the Earth series. The book releases next week on September 26th. 

I am also reading an ARC of King of the Crown Imperials by Joanna Alonzo. This is her first in the Where the Lilies Wander series. It releases tomorrow.

              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 The Secrets Beneath by Kimberley Woodhouse:

"The garden- his garden- was alive with color today, while the inside of him was black as death."

Well, that went from lovely to dark real fast. I needed to know what was causing such blackness inside him.

And here is my Book Beginnings for King of the Crown Imperials by Joanna Alonzo:

"1983 - Their unfathomable hatred eclipsed the promise of morning light."

This is from the prologue which takes place 10 years before the remainder of the book. Sounded quite ominous. 

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 are my Friday 56 selections.

The Secrets Beneath by Kimberley Woodhouse:
 

"What heavy weight was the man carrying? Not grief over the loss of his father, but what about his brother? It couldn't be easy to deal with the ranch, what with his mother gone to who knows where, his brother abandoning him, and his father dead."

King of the Crown Imperials by Joanna Alonzo:

"After first noticing her existence in the room, it had taken Philip a considerable amount of willpower not to steal glances at her. It hadn't helped that her presence was a mystery in and of itself, nor did it alleviate his interest that the beautiful stranger's unobtrusive silence made him all the more aware that she was where she had no business being."