Friday Fun - October 18, 2024

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 Terminal Danger by Jerusha Agen as a member of the launch team. This book releases on October 24th. . 

I'll be starting an ARC of Return to the Wilderness by Andrea Byrd. This book releases on October 22.

        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 C arrie for First Line Friday.)

Here are my Book Beginnings/First Line Friday selections:

  Terminal Danger by Jerusha Agen:

"The child would die."

Well, that doesn't sound good at all. No matter what the reason. Though the second sentence adds to the suspense, "Every second wasted spelled her doom."

Unexpected Witness by Penny Zeller:

"Muireall's hands flew to her mouth, stifling the scream that came as a scraggly man leapt from within  the branches of a red maple as her sister passed." 

I needed to know if this "scraggly" man had evil intentions or if someone just startled them..

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:

Terminal Danger (page 56) by Jerusha Agen:
 

"'Tell me that isn't what I think it is.' Special Agent in Charge Rhonda Carney aimed her dark gaze at the stapled paper Callum held in his hands as he sank into the chair facing the SAC's desk. She sat on the other side, steepling her fingers as she lifted her attention to his face."

Terminal Danger (56%) by Jerusha Agen:

"Without being asked, the undaunted K-9 had immediately followed the children's unseen trail as it wound along the edge of the drop-off and then curved around to the western side. There, the ground sloped down steeply but gradually enough for the hostages to have scrambled down."

Return to the Wilderness by Andrea Byrd:

"She tried to shake the gloom as John led them over the next rise and down another, but no matter how the countryside around them greened with the coming spring, discomfort and fear still swirled inside."

Reviews:

Last week I shared two books in my Friday Fun post. I'm still finishing those books up, as I decided to read Terminal Danger first. However, here's a link for the review of one of the books I shared a few weeks ago::

A Boy Named Rindy by Olivia Talbott

I also already shared the review for the first book in today's Friday Fun Post:

Terminal Danger by Jerusha Agen