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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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CSFF Tour: The Fatal Tree (Day 1)
This month’s CSFF tour features the final installment in Stephen Lawhead’s epic BRIGHT EMPIRES series. Think time travel, dimensional theory, physics, theology, and a good old-fashioned character romp that unfolds slowly–and richly–and brings the entire universe into its fold. There are five books total, so that’s a lot of backstory. You can read my reviews…
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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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CSFF Tour: The Warden and the Wolf King (Day 1)
Welcome back to the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour! I’m excited to be with you for the finish of Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga. This series–ostensibly written for children–is one of the more memorable to come out of Christian fantasy publishing. Charming, scary, funny, and profound–it’s everything children’s lit should be, and I suspect…
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CSFF Blog Tour: NUMB by John W. Otte
… because late is better than never, right? This month’s blog tour actually ran Monday-Wednesday, and yes this is Thursday, but I wanted to jump in anyway. (Why the weekend didn’t happen: airplanes, time zones, Internet, you can add it up.) I met John W. Otte, Lutheran minister, unusually tall man, and author of FAILSTATE,…
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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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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…