Book Reviews (Page 16)

Today, the CSFF tour is wrapping up on Stephen Lawhead‘s latest in the King Raven trilogy, Scarlet. I just *finally* got to “the end.” For those who don’t know, this is his retelling of Robin Hood, reset in the Welsh countryside during the very real turbulent times of 1080-1100 A.D, with the injustice of Forrest Law and the Church corrupted by power-hungry blasphemers. Let me say this was my first blush with Lawhead, and going in, I had only the vague notion that, based on what I’d heard from others, that Lawhead is one of the masters. For the most part, he lived up toRead More →

Through Wednesday, the crew at the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy tour are tackling Scarlet, the second book of the Raven King (er, King Raven) trilogy by Stephen Lawhead. I haven’t finished it yet, but I’m hoping to have my own review up before the tour is over. For now, Grace Bridges has a perceptive review up at the Lost Genre Guild blog.

  This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing THE YADA YADA PRAYER GROUP GETS DECKED OUT from Thomas Nelson (October 2, 2007) by Neta Jackson ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Neta Jackson’s award-winning Yada books have sold more than 350,000 copies and are spawning prayer groups across the country. She and her husband, Dave, are also an award-winning husband/wife writing team, best known for the Trailblazer Books–a 40-volume series of historical fiction –and Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes (vols 1-4). Dave and Neta live in Evanston, Illinois, where for twenty-seven years they were part of RebaRead More →

Normally, Saturday is a no-blogging day for me, but it’s my turn on the tour for Tricia Goyer‘s latest in the Chronicles of the Spanish Civil War, so I’m writing my review in advance. Now, I had the opportunity to review the first book, Valley of Betrayal, for the CFBA back in February, so I was glad to be asked to review A Shadow of Treason as well. The story picks up again with the aftermath of the Guernica bombing that devastated the city, where we find Sophie working in the hospital and her new boyfriend headed back to the front lines. Then the reporterRead More →

I received an unscheduled book to review from the CFBA, When the Morning Comes by Cindy Woodsmall. This sequel to When the Heart Cries opens with Hannah Lapp fleeing from her Old Order Amish community by train; even without having read the previous book, we quickly gather why: she has recently miscarried a child conceived in rape, and her community chose to believe lies and rumors rather than Hannah. The reader, or at least this one, is quickly swept up into her drama, as Hannah wins us over by the time she’s left huddled in a store’s doorway on a cold winter night in anRead More →