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First Line Fridays: Hold the Light

October 13, 2017 by Suzie Waltner 14 Comments

First Line Fridays

Another week is winding down. I’m enjoying the cooler weather this week. In Tennessee, fall doesn’t hit until October! Don’t forget to check out the other FLF bloggers over at our host’s site. You can also link your own FLF posts here: Hoarding Books Blog

This week’s book released a couple months ago but it has stuck with me, easily at the top of my best of the year list!

First Line Friday Hold the Light

And here’s the first line, which happens to be one unassuming word:

 Unremarkable.

More about the book

To an artist, the light is everything. So what is Amber supposed to do when facing blindness?

Amber spent her life adapting first to being abandoned by her birth mother as a toddler, and then to the death of her adoptive father in her teen years. Now she s moved past all that, loving life as an independent woman: she has a job as an art instructor and the perfect apartment.

But when a routine eye appointment reveals she s losing her sight, life comes to a halt. Pressures come at her from all sides. Her mother, her boss, her boyfriend and her closest friend, Shannon, all have ideas about what s best for her.

Even after her blindness counselor, Ethan, befriends her and opens her eyes to new opportunities and the possibility of a deeper relationship, one haunting question remains: How could the God she loved all her life turn everything upside down again?

Filed Under: First Line Friday Tagged With: April McGowan, blindness, Christian Fiction, First Line Friday, Hold the Light, Sight loss

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Comments

  1. Trisha Robertson says

    October 13, 2017 at 7:48 AM

    The first line on my blog this week is from Toni Shiloh’s latest book ‘Returning Home’. I’ll share with you here a book that I just started reading last night.

    June 1811
    A London lady never sallied forth unchaperoned. Least of all to a place with the reputation of Vauxhall Gardens. — First Comes Marriage by Amanda Barratt
    The Regency Brides Collection

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  2. Becky says

    October 13, 2017 at 8:42 AM

    I’ve been wanting to read this for a while now. Looks really good!

    I’m featuring Lu. by Beth Troy on my blog today, but here I shall share the book I’m currently reading.

    “They rode in silence, the murmur of Alex’s expensive late-model white SUV lulling Astrid into drowsiness.”
    -Colors of Christmas by Olivia Newport

    Happy Weekend!

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      October 13, 2017 at 1:35 PM

      I didn’t know what to expect when I started reading Hold the Light and was blown away.

      I finished Colors of Christmas last weekend!

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  3. Andi says

    October 13, 2017 at 1:52 PM

    I have this on my kindle to read. Have a great weekend!

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      October 13, 2017 at 1:55 PM

      Enjoy it!

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  4. Savanna Kaiser says

    October 13, 2017 at 3:26 PM

    I love discovering new books and I’m intrigued about this one. 🙂

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      October 13, 2017 at 3:28 PM

      It was so good. I read it in August and still think about it. I think an author who takes a character you don’t love at first and turns your opinion of her around is one to read!

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  5. Caryl Kane says

    October 13, 2017 at 5:19 PM

    I’v been wanting to read this one! Happy Friday!

    Wednesday,September 2, 1987

    Mike Dolan was snoring when the telephone rang. Fly Away by Lynn Austin

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      October 13, 2017 at 7:14 PM

      It is so good, Caryl! I hope you can get to it soon.

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  6. Sarah says

    October 13, 2017 at 6:35 PM

    Just one word??!! No fair 🙂

    Have a great weekend!

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  7. JaneReads says

    October 13, 2017 at 7:18 PM

    I love that cover!

    I am currently reading Deadly Proof by Rachel Dylan. The first line is: “You can’t call that a settlement offer.”

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      October 13, 2017 at 7:21 PM

      Deadly Proof was a great legal suspense! Did you see Rachel Dylan’s cover for book 2, Lone Witness?

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  8. Becky Smith says

    October 16, 2017 at 9:23 AM

    Sorry that I didn’t get this posted on Friday. I want to share the first line from the first chapter instead of from the prologue: (This is a REALLY fun book to read!)

    A New Shade of Summer by Nicole Deese:

    “I jiggled the locked doorknob again and wished, not for the first time, that it was legal to use tranquilizer darts on adolescent boys.”

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  9. Heather says

    October 16, 2017 at 8:05 PM

    Perfect first line! Happy Monday!

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