Happy Friday! I hope you are having a great day and looking forward to a relaxing weekend!
Welcome back to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books!! I will also be linking up with Gilion on Rose City Reader
for Friday Beginnings. It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and
leave a comment with the first line. This week I am sharing from Love and a Little White Lie by Tammy L. Gray.
I've face-planted myself into rock bottom. Well, maybe a hammock above rock bottom-one my aunt Doreen graciously set out for me when I found myself abandoned and broke.
This is the first book in the State of Grace series.
About the book (from Goodreads):
January Sanders grew up
believing karma was more reliable than an imaginary higher power, but
after suffering her worst heartbreak in 29 years, she's open to just
about anything, including taking a temporary position at her aunt's
church. Keeping her lack of faith a secret, January is determined to use
her photographic memory to help Grace Community's overworked staff, all
while scraping herself off rock bottom.
What she doesn't count
on is meeting the church's handsome and charming guitarist, who not only
is a strong believer, but has also dedicated his life to Christian
music. It's a match set for disaster, and yet January has no ability to
stay away, even if it means pretending to have faith in a God she
doesn't believe in.
Only this time, keeping secrets isn't as
easy as she thought it would be. Especially when she's constantly
running into her aunt's landscape architect, who seems to know
everything about her past and present sins and makes no apologies about
pushing her to deal with feelings she'd rather keep buried.
Torn
between two worlds incapable of coexisting, can January find the
healing that's eluded her or will her resistance to the truth ruin any
chance of happiness?
Have you read this book? What did you think?
Your turn! Grab the book nearest you and post the first line in the comments!
I haven't read this book no, but it does seem like worth the effort. Keep us posted!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful weekend.
Elza Reads
I am about half way through and I think it would be another one of those "I could read in one sitting if I had time!" Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteI love this book! And am so excited for the second in the series releasing soon.
ReplyDeleteMy First Line Friday post is from The Chase by Lisa Harris: https://daniellegrandinetti.com/2021/07/23/first-line-friday-the-chase/
I was so excited that my library had it so I was able to get my hands on it!! I am looking forward to the second as well :)
DeleteI love that first line, it would draw me right in. Sounds like a really good book.
ReplyDeleteI am really enjoying it :)
DeleteHappy Friday! 🙂
ReplyDeleteI’m currently in the middle of the Mistletoe Countess by Pepper Basham. I LOVE it so much. So, here’s a line from the middle of the novel:
“Frederick marched from his mother’s room with a hardened edge knotting his stomach.”
Hope you have a great weekend! 🙂❤📚
It's been a very busy weekend where I only got to read 2 chapters from this book (sadly!). I am looking forward to reading Mistletoe Countess and hope you were able to read a lot this weekend :)
DeleteFrom the Prologue of Yours is the Night by Amanda Dykes:
ReplyDeleteOctober 24, 1921 Chalons-sur-Marne, France
Ceremony for the choosing of the Unknown Soldier
There are days you live over and over again for as long as you live. October twenty fourth of 1918, just days before the unending war ended, was one of mine.
That sounds interesting, Paula! I hope you enjoy it :)
DeleteI love the image of the hammock in this context!!
ReplyDeleteIt was a great story! Thanks for stopping by!
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