First Line Friday of January 17th, 2025
First Lines Friday 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!
Here is the first line of 1/17/25:
Once upon a time, a prince attempt to learn to drive.
Do you know which book this line is from? Scroll down to find out!
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Royal Rising by Holly Kerr
Synopsis:
Prince Kalle does not want to be king. But will the right queen make him change his mind? Kalle. eldest son of King Magnus of Laandia, is expected to be crowned king at his father’s untimely death.
(Hopefully not anytime soon—King Magnus is in good health. But still… sometime in the future Kalle is supposed to be king.)
Only he doesn’t want the crown.
Kalle, Laandia’s most celebrated jock (baseball, hockey, curling and now darts), is heading into another high-profile fling with a wealthy socialite. He’s the prince who will give you a good time but not the one you settle down with. In fact, Kalle would be perfectly happy staying single, keeping out of the media spotlight, and spending his days at his bar, The King’s Hat, which is managed by his best friend, Edie England.
Edie thinks Kalle would be a great king. So does (some of) Laandia. Friends with Kalle since a rocky driving lesson, Edie is the daughter of the groundskeeper at the castle and knows Kalle would make a good king. But Kalle doesn’t agree.
But King Magnus suggests Kalle should be looking for someone to share the role with. Stand beside him to rule Laandia. Be his queen.
Kalle likes that idea. But who will be his queen? Royal Rising is the third book in the royal romance Love in Laandia series, a friends-to-lovers, low-heat, slow-burn sweet romance with late-night talking, bar fights, and a convenient power outage.
Description from StoryGraph.
