Friday Fun - January 30, 2026

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 started reading an eARC of Aflame by Roseanna M White. This is the second book in her fantasy series, Awakened.

        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:

 Aflame by Roseanna M. White:

"The water waited, asking to be pulled up from the springs beneath the arena, to be chilled and frozen into the icy floor beneath Valkyrja’s boots."

I wasn't quite sure what Valkyrja was supposed to be doing, but I wanted to find out.

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.)
(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:

Aflame by Roseanna M. White:

"He reached out, not even hesitating before resting a hand on her forearm—something no one from Reykstoll would ever do without her express permission. To purposefully touch a Blessed without invitation, without her reaching out first, was punishable by up to a year in prison. 

His gaze was so far from malicious though that she knew he either didn’t know the law or saw her only as a person just now, not a Blessed. Not a princess. 'You can stay here with them,' he said so softly she could scarcely hear him. 'If you want to. I’ll do what I can elsewhere.'"

Reviews:

Last week I shared two book in my Friday Fun post. Here are the links to my reviews:

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins 

The Royal Nanny by Melody Carlson