First Line Friday & The Friday 56: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

First Line Friday is hosted by Carrie @ Reading Is My Superpower.
The Friday 56 is hosted by Anne @ My Head is Full of Books while Freda @ Freda’s Voice is on hiatus.
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FIRST LINE FRIDAY

where each week we share the first line of our current read(s)

Revolution tastes oddly… sweet.

THE FRIDAY 56

where each week we share a snippet from page 56 or 56%

“They’re going to abduct us? Nadine gasps, fear lacing her tone.
“Sounds like it,” Sawyer mutters in response.
“Always something around here,” Ridoc adds.
“The other assessors and I will give you feedback during those trials, so by the time your full evalutations come around, you’ll be able to withstand—” He cocks his head to the side as if choosing his words carefully. “Well, be able to withstand the hell we’re going to put you through. Take it from someone who has survived it: as long as you don’t break during the interrogation portion, you’ll do just fine.”
Rhiannon puts her hand up, and professor Grady nods at her.
“And if we break?” she asks.
All traces of amusement leave his face. “Don’t.

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.” —Xaden Riorson

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.

Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.

Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules.

But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year.

Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.

What do you think of the snippets I featured today?
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