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 donโt give anything else about the book away just yet โ you need to hook the reader first
- Finallyโฆ reveal the book!
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so.






Black Sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse
ASIN/ISBN: 9781534437678
Publication: October 13, 2020
Series: Between Earth and Sun
The first book in theย Between Earth and Skyย trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.
A god will return
When the earth and sky converge
Under the black sun
In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.
Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a manโs mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain. (Goodreads)

I’m reading this for a book club and thought this was one of the best first lines ever. I can’t tell you how I feel about the book yet because I’m not very far, but so far it’s good. What do you think of the first lines?
3 responses to “First Lines Fridays: Today he would…”
Yes! It sounds terrific.
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I still need to finish this. The next book is coming out soon! LOL
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I still need to finish this. The next book is coming out soon! LOL
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