First Lines Friday #680, May 24th

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!

"It should have been more difficult to assassinate her father. Not int he actual execution of it: that Shan had prepared for. Her father was a powerful Blood Worker and and once been considered the brightest of his generation. That had been many years ago, though, and Lord Antonin LeClaire had fallen quite fall indeed. But still, he had guards, magical wards and a lifetime of training at his disposal. And she had accounted for all these things."-Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright

Yeah, I just need to read more, that was pretty intense! What about you guys? Happy reading!