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Bookish Question #336 | What is the most recent book you read in a single day?

Because of You by Australian author Hannah Currie, which I recently reviewed (click here to read my review).

It’s an enjoyable story of a teenage girl who goes to Thailand on a short-term missions trip, and what she learns about herself and God during the trip. Some of the scenes are based on Hannah’s own mission trip to Thailand, and I particularly enjoyed those scenes.

I hadn’t planned to read the whole book in a single day (do we ever?), but I found it hard to put down.

What about you? What’s the most recent book you’ve read in a single day?

 

First Line Friday

First Line Friday #338 | Because of You by Hannah Currie

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. I’m quoting from Because of You by Australian author Hannah Currie.

Because of You a Young Adult novel about a short-term mission trip to Thailand, which is a switch-up from her usual royalty romances. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

This would be the summer that changed my life forever.

What’s the book nearest you, and what’s the first line?

 

About Because of You

Because of You by Hannah CurrieSixteen-year-old Chloe Gabriels has dreamed of going on an overseas mission trip for as long as she can remember, so when the opportunity arises for her to go to Thailand with Teen Missions International she jumps at the chance. Working at an orphanage, learning new skills, experiencing a different culture, making lifelong friends—what better way could there be to spend her summer vacation?

Of course, the trip will have its challenges—living in close quarters with seventeen other teens out of their comfort zones has a way of doing that—but it will be worth it. She’ll finally be serving God in a practical way.

But while the orphans and their stories break her heart, it’s someone unexpected who has the biggest impact on Chloe’s summer and leaves her wondering if maybe there are just as many people who need her love back home as there are overseas.

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First Line Friday

First Line Friday #288 | Bring Her Home (Crown of Promise) by Hannah Currie

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line.

On Monday, New Zealand will commemorate the first King’s Birthday holiday most people can remember. So I thought this week it would be fitting to read a novel featuring royalty … So I’ve searched through my books and found Bring Her Home, a medieval Christian royalty romance by Australian author Hannah Currie.

Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

Sobs wracked his body as King Lior fell on his knees, the missive clutched to his chest as if it hadn't already imprinted its message on his heart.

 

What’s the book nearest you, and what’s the first line?

 

About Bring Her Home

Since the morning he woke to find his precious daughter gone with only the remains of their latest argument left behind, King Lior has been praying she’d come home. For four years now, he’s prayed and searched, sending his best knights to find Evangeline, only to hear nothing. Until the day their missive arrives with three words: we’ve found her. He sends one right back with orders to bring her home.

But that order isn’t easily achieved. Evangeline, now a lowly servant, has no plans to return. Though the knights claim her father still loves her, she knows the truth: he’d cast her aside as quickly as everyone else if he knew how far she’d truly fallen. She can’t go home. Not with her scars. Or her failures. Or her son.

Only, the knights won’t leave without her. And just as she starts to wonder if maybe they might be right, the choice is taken from her altogether.

Sir Darrek thought the hardest part of his quest would be finding Evangeline. He had no idea how difficult it would be to get her home.

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First Line Friday

First Line Friday | Week 112 | Heart of a Royal by Hannah Currie

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from Heart of a Royal, the debut release from Australian author Hannah Currie. Here’s the first line of Chapter One:

First line from Heart of a Royal: If mortification could kill, I’d be six feet under.

What’s the book nearest you, and what’s the first line?

About Heart of a Royal

Brought to the palace as a newborn, the royal life bestowed upon Mackenna Sparrow was never meant to last forever. With Princess Alina engaged to be married, Mackenna’s presence as companion is no longer required and, like it or not, she must return to the birthright which should have been hers – that of a commoner. But not everyone at the palace wants her gone.

When the truths she’s based her life on start crumbling as fast as her future, will she find the courage to trust, both herself and the prince she’s fallen in love with?

You can find Heart of a Royal online at

Amazon | Goodreads

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