Category: Fiction
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Review: The Unraveling of Wentwater
In the fourth installment of C.S. Lakin’s “Gates of Heaven” series of fairy tales, various powers cross, collide, create, and unravel—powers of love and jealousy, magic and knowledge, justice and compassion, music and stitching, and above all, of words. The Unraveling of Wentwater centers around Teralyn, a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past who—unknown…
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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.…
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Review: The Land of Darkness
The Land of Darkness is the third fairy tale in C.S. Lakin’s Gates of Heaven series, this time following the quest of a twelve-year-old girl named Jadiel and her unlikely companion, a woodworking apprentice who is obsessed with finding a legendary bridge. Driven out by her evil stepmother to find the eternal-youth-giving leaves of a…
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More About D. Barkley Briggs and Genre Expectations
So, I really spaced on the last CSFF Tour–totally forgot to write/post a third entry. This had nothing to do with the quality of the book and everything to do with me being in the midst of traveling. We were featuring D. Barkley Briggs’s Corus the Champion, which was a really great read. My one…
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Review: Corus the Champion (CSFF Tour, Day 2)
The Barlow brothers are not the first to cross between Earth and Karac Tor, two of the Creator’s Nine Worlds. But the crossing has positioned the boys, each of whom possesses a significant gift, to influence the future of the Hidden Lands. Hadyn, who has discovered the power in names; Ewan, whose music weaves magic…
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CSFF Tour: Corus the Champion (Day 1)
European mythology, great writing, deep spirituality, and an exciting (if familiar) story: this month’s book tour is for Corus the Champion, Book 2 of the Legends of Karac Tor series by D. Barkley Briggs. The series has been a long time coming to print after the original publisher dropped it, but it is finally here,…
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Review of Lawhead’s “The Bone House”
In The Bone House, Book 2 of the Bright Empires series, the race to recover the fabled Skin Map — once tattooed on the torso of the greatest traveler the multiverse has ever known, and rumoured to contain the greatest secret of all — is still on. Kit and Giles have escaped from the disease-ridden…