Category: CSFF Blog Tour
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CSFF Tour: Angel Eyes (Day 1)
The CSFF (Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy) Blog Tour is back! This month we’re featuringAngel Eyesby Shannon Dittemore, YA supernatural realism. Or young adult spiritual warfare fantasy. Or something like that :). Think Frank Peretti’s original “Darkness” novels reimagined, updated for today’s culture, and written for teens. Review coming tomorrow. For now, here are the…
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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…
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CSFF Tour: Starflower (Day 1)
(Yes, I know this is one day late … yesterday the Internet broke and refused to let me post.) I was introduced to the work of Anne Elisabeth Stengl when I read her novel Veiled Rose last year alongside many other recent works of Christian fantasy. Veiled Rose was a standout: beautifully written, with excellent…
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Review: The Spirit Well
Stephen R. Lawhead’s The Spirit Well is Book 3 in the Bright Empires series, and as predicted, it takes the whole series to a new level: it is here that its many storylines begin to come together, that its timelines coalesce, and that its themes truly emerge. Having read this installment, I predict that Bright…
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The Spirit Well: Of Time and Travel (CSFF Tour, Day 2)
Welcome to Day 2 of the CSFF Blog Tour for The Spirit Well, by Stephen R. Lawhead. It was a tale of time, travel, and trains … of unexpected detours, mysterious illnesses, and a search for the deeper meanings of life. And no, I’m not talking about Lawhead’s story; I’m talking about mine for the last…
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CSFF Tour: The Spirit Well (Day 1)
It’s tour time! This month’s featured title is The Spirit Well, Book 3 in the Bright Empires series by fantasy master Stephen R. Lawhead. (I thought it was the final book of a trilogy, but lo and behold … an ad in the back for Book 4. So either this is a trilogy in the…
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Night of the Living Dead Christian: A Review (CSFF Tour, Day 3)
Luther Martin is a werewolf. Not many people know it–his estranged father, a Lutheran minister, does; so do the wife and daughter he managed to run off in a fit of rage. But to the rest of the world, he’s just an ordinary man–the quiet little man next door. That is, until Matt Mikalatos, the…
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Night of the Living Dead Christian: CSFF Blog Tour, Day 1
Greetings! This month’s blog tour features Night of the Living Dead Christian, the second release by the fabulously entertaining and surprisingly insightful Matt Mikalatos. We toured Matt’s first book, Imaginary Jesus (which is being repackaged and released as My Imaginary Jesus) last year, and I found it to be both very funny and also quite…
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Review: The Realms Thereunder (CSFF Tour, Day 2)
Ross Lawhead is probably doomed (or blessed, however you want to look at it) to have his name linked to his father and sometime cowriter, Stephen R. Lawhead, in every review. Perils of having a famous father (well, famous in our little backwater genre, anyway). But Ross’s first solely penned novel, The Realms Thereunder, stands…
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CSFF Tour: The Realms Thereunder (Day 1)
It’s time for another CSFF Blog Tour! Perhaps because I am glutton for punishment, I requested this latest book even though I have PILES and PILES of other reading that has to be done on deadline in the next few months. I was interested because the author, Ross Lawhead, is the son of Stephen R.…