Welcome, everyone, to my second Friday Fragments post. This is where I will join in on three Friday blog memes. The first is First Line Friday, hosted by Carrie over at Reading is my Super Power. For this, you post the first line of the book nearest you. The second is Book Beginnings, which is hosted by Gilion over at Rose City Reader. For this one you share the opening sentence or two of a current, previous, or upcoming read, or any other book you want to highlight. And finally, there’s Friday56, hosted by Anne at My Head is Full of Books. For this you pick any book you want and post a (non-spoiler!) snippet from page 56, or 56% for digital books. I always have multiple books on the go, though, so I’m going to add a personal rule for myself: I have to use a different book for each of the three memes; no doubling up.

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First Line Friday

Death was driving an emerald-green Lexus.

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Eduardo is a lonely retiree living on his isolated Montana ranch. His life is peaceful, until one night he is awakened by a fearful throbbing sound and eerie lights in the woods. More mysterious and disturbing events follow over the next few months. Eduardo begins to fear for his sanity and his life, until the terrible night when someone – or something – knocks on his back door…

One lovely spring morning in Los Angeles, cop Jack McGarvey is hammered by submachine-gun fire when a madman goes berserk. He barely survives. Jack longs to move his wife and son to a more peaceful place away from the city, but he feels utterly powerless and without prospects. In their hour of desperation, the McGarvey family receives an unexpected inheritance in the shape of a sprawling ranch in one of the most beautiful, peaceful places in the country: Montana.

The family sets out from Los Angeles to begin their new life, unaware that the terror-riddled city will soon seem like a safe haven compared to what lies ahead.
(description from Goodreads)

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Book Beginnings

The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice.

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When nineteen-year-old Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin – one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow over the faerie lands is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it or doom Tamlin – and his world – forever.
(description from Goodreads)

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Friday56

The last thing I remember is collapsing on a wooden porch, looking up at a ceiling fan circling above me, moths flying around a yellow light and the stern faces of a familiar-looking bearded man and a pretty girl, her blonde hair curled like Cinderella’s. They both looked down at me, and the girl said, ‘He’s the one. He must be.’

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Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a greek god.

I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. Now I spend my time battling monsters and generally trying to stay alive.

This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I’ve stolen his lightning bolt – and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea.
(description from Goodreads)

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© Adele Walker October 2025