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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…
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that which I see not
“Frequently we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know. God has to help us let go of our tiny vision in order to release the greater good he has in store for us.” – Richard Foster, Prayer: Finding the…
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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…