First Line Friday is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

The Rules:

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-The First Lines-

Green eyes watched from the darkness like statues in a fog. I felt them like fishhooks in me, dragging me upward. I felt wrong. Cold. The image of Bordelon’s face on the holograph – moments before I wiped it from existence – seemed to float on the air. His was not alone. Gilliam’s was there, lips twisted as he was, a sneer made flesh. And Uvanari. A confusion of sound filled my universe: the screams of dying men, the cheering of the Colosso crowd, my own blood pounding in my ear.

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Any guesses?

Book #2 in The Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio.

It’s a space opera. It’s a story of a guy telling a story about himself and we LOVE unreliable narrators around here. Maybe he’s a bad guy, maybe he’s not. Maybe he’s telling the truth, maybe he’s smudging history. Is he the Sun Eater? Did he kill a whole lot of people in a fight with aliens? Will we ever figure out what exactly happened and how it all really came about? WHO KNOWS.

If I’m being truly honest, this book is on my special TBR shelf called “I really want to but I have reservations”. I absolutely loved Ruocchio’s debut Empire of Silence (book #1). It was a wonderful story and it’s hit my top favorites of all time list. So, I’m really worried that the second won’t live up to the satisfaction of the first. However, I’m going to get through this one in 2023 – it’s one of my few reading goals for the year.
I mean, the whole “first time luck” thing is just a myth right?
^{Even if it’s bad it’ll probably be good… right??}

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