Category: Fiction
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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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CSFF Tour: The Shadow Lamp (Day 1)
Welcome back to the Christian Science Fiction & Fantasy Blog Tour! I’ve not been doing these as regularly as I used to, but this month the tour is covering the latest installment of a series I’ve been following from the start–so I could hardly miss this one. Stephen R. Lawhead is one of the greats…
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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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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…