Category: Book Reviews
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Sentinels of Andersonville
It’s not often that a book can horrify and give hope at the same time; that it can make you laugh and cry on the same page; that it can take you back in history and at the same time make you feel that the future is of pressing importance. THE SENTINELS OF ANDERSONVILLE, a…
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Review: Where Christ Is Present
The fabulous Laura Fabiani of iRead Book Tours contacted me a while back to see if I’d be interested in reviewing a nonfiction book for the blog. It’s been a little while since I reviewed anything, and this one intrigued me. So without further ado . . . WHERE CHRIST IS PRESENT: A THEOLOGY FOR…
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Review: The Fatal Tree (CSFF Tour, Day 2)
When I finished reading THE SPIRIT WELL, book 3 in the BRIGHT EMPIRES series, I wrote, “Having read this installment, I predict that Bright Empires may become one of those perennial journeys: a long read you can soak into every other winter or so and just enjoy the trip.” Indeed: Although I found the story…
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Review: Jupiter Winds
CJ Darlington is a young author with whom I have quite a bit in common. She’s a homeschool grad, a multiple genre author, and a newcomer in the indie publishing world with her company, Mountainview Books. She contacted me about reviewing her latest book, sci-fi entry Jupiter Winds. Kathy Tyers, author of the Firebird series…
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Review: The Warden and the Wolf King (CSFF Tour, Day 2)
At the end of every romance is a wedding, and at the end of every epic fantasy is a war–a war that will remake and reshape worlds and characters we have come to love. The Warden and the Wolf King is the story, as the cover says, of “The Final Battle for the Shining Isle.”…
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Review: THE CRYSTAL SCEPTER and THE SANDS OF ETHRYN
C.S. Lakin’s series of fairy tales for adults, influenced in equal parts by the Bible, various mythologies, and the fairy tale books we all grew up with, continues with two more stories about the Gates of Heaven and those who serve as their Keepers: THE CRYSTAL SCEPTER and THE SANDS OF ETHRYN. In THE CRYSTAL…
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Review: The Shadow Lamp (CSFF Day 3)
Flash floods. Roman invaders. Tomb raiding. Pirate attacks. Betrayals. Getting lost in the multiverse … and discovering the greatest threat imaginable. Ley leaping may be the journey of a lifetime, but no one ever said it was easy. Or safe. THE SHADOW LAMP, Book 4 in Stephen R. Lawhead’s BRIGHT EMPIRES series, picks up the…
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CSFF Day 2: Bright Empires
I’m planning to post my review of THE SHADOW LAMP tomorrow. I’ve been with this series from the start, and as it’s a complex and continuous series of the first order (not one of these stories stands alone), I thought it would appropriate to go back in time, introducing the series (and the story thus…
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Review: Angel Eyes (CSFF Tour, Day 2)
This month’s review is a little different because Angel Eyes was originally scheduled for the CSFF tour two months ago. By some incredible fluke, I, the sole Canadian member of the CSFF force, was also the only member to receive my review copy on time. Thus I read the book some time ago and am…
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Review: Starflower (Day 2)
Fairy tale is a hard genre to explain, perhaps because we know fairy tales when we see them, but it’s difficult to pin down exactly what differentiates them from other works we just call “fantasy.” Those who claim to write them have to hit just the right chord, made up of notes beautiful, strange, and…