Book Beginnings + Friday 56: The Vault Between Spaces by Chawna Schroeder

Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading. Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice and asks you to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and share a non-spoilery sentence or two.

This week I'm featuring The Vault Between Spaces by Chawna Schroeder, a very interesting and unique fantasy.

About the Book

Every legend must start somewhere...

No prisoner who enters the gates of HopeWell ever leaves. But from the moment Oriel sets foot inside Anatroshka’s most formidable prison camp, she unsettles both commandant and prisoner alike with eyes that see beyond the surface and music that trails her everywhere.

Petite and delicate though she appears, Oriel bows before neither threat nor punishment. Moreover, she makes no attempt to hide her intention: Oriel plans to escape the inescapable HopeWell.

But when facades are stripped away and myth becomes clothed in flesh, what begins as a prison break becomes a mission to stop the invasion of evil itself.

Book Beginnings

She appeared out of nowhere.

Friday 56

The first rays of morning found Gareth sitting at the point of a rocky outcropping, hands busy with some whittling. It didn't matter that not enough light had invaded to see by. He moved through habit, the shavings piling up at his feet. Besides, Gareth's attention wasn't on his work. Couldn't be, not when the outcropping overlooked Juliet's mountain estate.

What have you been reading lately?