Happy Friday! Today I am participating in First Line Friday, hosted by Reading is My Superpower, AND First Lines Friday, created by Wandering Words!
First Lines Fridays 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?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
“Even in the darkness, we could see it: the door half-open.”
Anyone have any guesses on what book this is? I’ll give you a few clues…
any guesses yet? no? okay, one more gif…
Last chance to guess!
Today’s book is…
One for All by Lillie Lainoff Published on March 8, 2022 by Farrar Straus and Giroux
Genres: Historical Fiction, Retellings, Steampunk, Thriller, YA
Pages: 400
Format: eARC
Source: Edelweiss
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An #OwnVoices, gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love.
Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone in town thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but “a sick girl”; even her mother is desperate to marry her off for security. But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father—a former Musketeer and her greatest champion.
Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. But L’Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school. It’s a secret training ground for a new kind of Musketeer: women who are socialites on the surface, but strap daggers under their skirts, seduce men into giving up dangerous secrets, and protect France from downfall. And they don’t shy away from a swordfight.
With her newfound sisters at her side, Tania feels for the first time like she has a purpose, like she belongs. But then she meets Étienne, her first target in uncovering a potential assassination plot. He’s kind, charming, and breathlessly attractive—and he might have information about what really happened to her father. Torn between duty and dizzying emotion, Tania will have to lean on her friends, listen to her own body, and decide where her loyalties lie…or risk losing everything she’s ever wanted.
This debut novel is a fierce, whirlwind adventure about the depth of found family, the strength that goes beyond the body, and the determination it takes to fight for what you love.
“Even in the darkness, we could see it: the door half-open.”
Did today’s quote sound familiar? Maybe the gifs? It’s probably because I posted the same ones a couple of months ago, the first time I started reading One For All by Lillie Lainoff! Almost immediately after I made that post, I found out that I had in fact signed up for more tours, and then I just… wasn’t in the mood for historical fiction. But! I’m finally reading it, and so far it’s EVEN BETTER than I expected! I’m loving it and I hope I continue to!
What have you been reading lately? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!
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One for All has been on my TBR since I first learned about it last year. I hope to be able to get my hands on it soon.