We have a lot of eARC’s and we want to promote them a little bit more. So we decided to do some more Bookish Beginnings On Friday. Today I wanted to share the beginning of Otherworldly. I already talked about this book in my Can’t Wait Wednesday post this week, but now it’s time to read the first few sentences. Let’s take a look!
New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After.
Seventeen-year-old Ellery is a non-believer in a region where people swear the supernatural is real. Sure, they’ve been stuck in a five-year winter, but there’s got to be a scientific explanation. If goddesses were real, they wouldn’t abandon their charges like this, leaving farmers like Ellery’s family to scrape by.
Knox is a familiar from the Other World, a magical assistant sent to help humans who have made crossroads bargains. But it’s been years since he heard from his queen, and Knox is getting nervous about what he might find once he returns home. When the crossroads demons come to collect Knox, he panics and runs. A chance encounter down an alley finds Ellery coming to Knox’s rescue, successfully fending off his would-be abductors.
Ellery can’t quite believe what they’ve seen. And they definitely don’t believe the nonsense this unnervingly attractive guy spews about his paranormal origins. But Knox needs to make a deal with a human who can tether him to this realm, and Ellery needs to figure out how to stop this winter to help their family. Once their bargain is struck, there’s no backing out, and the growing connection between the two might just change everything.
“In the middle of a collection of cornfields, in the middle of the country, in the middle of nowhere, a weathered wooden post marked the intersection of two roads.
The main road was a stretch of brown pea gravel rolled into a layer of asphalt that connected two nearby small towns. The other linked a row of family-owned farms. Few people besides the locals traveled them, as there was nothing for tourists to see except cornstalks in the summer and flat fields in the winter.”
So the first two paragraphs don’t really give much away. I did read the next one though and it does mention a sign that states you need to be aware of bargains that are made. It seems like things are going to get interesting. The writing definitely has me wanting more.
Otherworldly releases on April 2nd and I hope to have my review up next week, so keep an eye out! I’ve asked this before, but do the first few pages of a book influence you reading a book? Let me know in the comments. I’d love to hear from you.
