Friday Fun - June 20, 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 one book to share with you.

I'm reading The Making of a Beauty by Joanna Alonzo. This is a prequel to The Beauty in Their Scars which releases next week.

        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 is my Book Beginnings/First Line Friday selection:

The Making of a Beauty by Joanna Alonzo:

"Children shouldn't leave toy stores with scars, but Calysta Daniels walked out of Wonder Chest in tears, broken in both soul and skin."

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 is my Friday 56 selection:

The Making of a Beauty by Joanna Alonzo:

 

"What followed Amma’s announcement was the longest weekend of Calysta’s life. 

Time stretched unbearably, each second dragging into the next, like her family was trying to stall reality, slow the rewriting of their future so they could cling to their old life just a little longer."

Reviews:

Last week I shared one book in my Friday Fun post. I did finish the book, I just haven't had a chance to write my review

However here is the link to the review of a book I shared on Friday Fun a while back:

When the Sky Burned by Liz Tolsma