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? If you want to make your own post, just follow the rules below:
- 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!
I stood there and wept.
I wept not because I had lost so much privilege, my lands, my sigil, and my rank. I was once the Second Prince and thus second in line to the throne of the greatest kingdom the world had ever seen. I was Second Prince and born with all the advantages accorded to one of my noble birth. But I was Second Prince no more, and no longer able to claim that lofty title. Yet it was not for having lost the position of Second Prince that I wept. Losing my inheritance was lamentable, but that loss could have been sadder, as I could have lost my head with my rank. Certainly, that would have saddened me. Still, all that loss was not why I wept.
I wept because no one lived that might cut off my head anymore. I wept, crushed by the enormity of it all. I wept, for none of it was supposed to happen.
And the book is…
Those were the first words from the prologue of P.L. Stuart’s new release: A Drowned Kingdom. It is the first book in the series: The Drowned Kingdom Saga.
A Drowned Kingdom by P.L. Stuart
Once Second Prince of the mightiest kingdom in the known world, Othrun now leads the last survivors of his exiled people into an uncertain future far across the Shimmering Sea from their ancestral home, now lost beneath the waves. With his Single God binding his knights to chivalric oaths, intent on wiping out idolatry and pagan worship, they will have to carve out a new kingdom on this mysterious continent―a continent that has for centuries been ravaged by warlords competing for supremacy and mages channeling the mystic powers of the elements―and unite the continent under godly rule.
With a troubled past, a cursed sword, and a mysterious spirit guiding him, Othrun means to be that ruler, and conquer all. But with kingdoms fated on the edge of spears, alliances and pagan magic, betrayal, doubt, and dangers await him at every turn. Othrun will be forced to confront the truths of all he believes in on his journey to become a king, and a legend.
When one kingdom drowns, a new one must rise in its place. So begins the saga of that kingdom, and the man who would rule it all.
Add to your Goodreads To Be Read list here:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/56493306-a-drowned-kingdom
Buy here:
www.amazon.com/Drowned-Kingdom-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B08VS15WTR/
www.amazon.co.uk/Drowned-Kingdom-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B08VS15WTR/
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Sue's Musings 
Ohh this has me intrigued! I will have to add it to my ever growing list of books I want to read!! Great post!!
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