First Line Friday & Friday56: Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
Welcome to First Line Friday! This is a weekly feature hosted by Carrie at Reading Is My Superpower. The idea is very simple: you just share the first line (or lines) of the book you are currently reading.
"Time has no borders except those people make"
Friday56 is hosted by HeadFullOfBooks
RULES:
*Grab a book, any book
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
*Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
*Post it to your blog and add your url to the Linky. If you do not add the specific url for your post, we may miss it!
*Visit other blogs and leave comments about their snippets. Expand the community. Please leave a comment for me, too!
"You should not be so carefree with your secrets."
"You're right," Keishin said. "But I trust you."
Hana looked away. Had Keishin been a client, she would have been elated. Instead, the Shiikuin's shrieks tore through her mind. She had allowed Keishin to step into a world whose dangers he count not even begin to comprehend. To give him her name was to let him take another step closer to her. And all the secrets she hid. "Perhaps you shouldn't"
Synopsis:
On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it.
Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.
Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop's new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike other customers. For he offers help, instead of seeking it.
Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice – through rain puddles, hitching rides on paper cranes, across the bridge between midnight and morning and through a night market in the clouds.
But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own – and risk making a choice she will never be able to take back.
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This sounds like s fun, magical story. I hope you continue to enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteWhat an intriguing idea---a pawnshop where one can pawn one's regrets! I shall look and find out more about this book. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy it if you read it!
DeleteThis sounds really good! And I love that cover! Hope you have a great week!
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