Friday Fun - First Lines for July 28, 2023

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The Book Review Bulletin, a monthly link-up for review posts, is open and I'd like to invite you to stop by and share a review or two. Book Review Bulletin for July will wrap up on Monday, and Book Review Bulletin for August will open on Tuesday morning.

And now for some First Lines: I'm falling behind on my reading goals, and yet I can't stop myself from picking up new books anyway! I couldn't resist accepting this one for a review, and since I'm reading it on my Kindle, I'll share just the beginning today and maybe will remember to share a Friday 56 later on as I'm reading. 

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October 1943

Everything around me whispered lies.

Artificial moonlight spilled into a manufactured alley, slowly filling with fake fog. Real haze didn't have a stench.

~From the beginning of The Starlet Spy by Rachel Scott McDaniel

Hollywood Star Turns Spy

In 1943, movie producer Henrik Zoltan approaches Amelie Blake under the guise of offering the Hollywood star a leading part in his upcoming film, but he has a more meaningful role in mind. Amelie's homeland of Sweden declared neutrality in the war, but Stockholm has become the "Casablanca of the North." When top-secret atomic research goes missing in Sweden, the Allied forces scramble to recover the files before they fall into Nazi hands.

The United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) needs someone who's subtle enough to spy on the Swedish elite without triggering suspicion. Who better than the "all beauty, no brains" Scandinavian starlet? Fluent in three languages and possessing a brilliant memory, Amelie loathes being labeled witless but uses the miconception as her disguise. She's tasked with searching for the crucial files, but Finn Ristaffason keeps getting in her way. Is the charming shipping magnate after the missing research? Or does he have other reasons for showing up at her every turn?

With the Gestapo on her heels, Amelie must rely on her smarts in addition to her acting skills to survive and world of deadly spies and counterspies.

Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader.

*It's Book Beginnings on Fridays! Time to gather with our fellow book lovers and share the opening sentence (or so) of the books we are reading this week. Or share from a book that is on your mind right now -- whatever catches your fancy.

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First Line Fridays is hosted at Reading is My SuperPower

*Share the first line or two of the book closest to you, then visit other FLF participants.

*Please keep posts family friendly or clean reads.

*Link back to Reading is My SuperPower within your post or grab a button.

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And here is the weekly bookish question in the Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Billy at Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer.  

This Week's Question: Do you enjoy reading memoirs?

My Answer: I don't often go looking for memoirs to read, but I do enjoy them from time to time. Memoirs by a personality I recognize and like generally catch my eye more than just straight subject matter. 

Book Blogger Hop

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