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In Reclaiming Nick, a novel by Susan May Warren, Nick Noble returns home to ensure the family ranch stays in the family, just as the back cover said (always nice when the cover copy accurately describes the story). He’s also definitely the prodigal son (in the modern sense if not the original sense of wasteful)—which means the reader can expect sexual immorality and a violent temper in his past. I appreciated the honest handling of youthful transgressions and the damage the hot-blooded eldest Noble brother left in his wake, not to mention a man returning after his father’s death to face up to his past.Read More →

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I finished reading Double Vision yesterday (see my earlier review), and author Randall Ingermanson continued to wow and raise the bar on craftsmanship in it’s genre, although my reading materials of late have shown I take honesty about as seriously as Dillon, who I found it easy to identify with, except for politics, and especially on bathing suits. I think some ladies will be surprised by Dillon’s reaction as he would have been dismayed to learn today’s young women have been trained by culture to intentionally flaunt their assets and literally dress to kill. On the science, if you can make it through the initialRead More →

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To tell you the truth, I wasn’t entirely sure what to make of this title; It Happens Every Spring( Tyndale Fiction, 2007). At first glance, a cynical person would be apt to view this first installment of the four seasons series as an awkward literary marriage between diverse genres attempted as a marketing ploy to sell more of Dr. Gary Chapman’s marriage books, or in particular The Four Seasons of Marriage, which this novel is based from and illustrative of. And a truly cynical person might assume that the goal was also to launch a career for Catherine Palmer. Indeed, if I were the typeRead More →

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Dillon Richards sure is in Double Vision, a new novel out from Randy Ingermanson, which is on a blog tour this week with the CSFF. I must admit, I’m still in the process of reading this one, but I didn’t want to leave everyone hanging. So allow me to comment on what I’ve read up through chapter seven, and add more later this week if I have additional comments after I finish it. Recently, I got wind at the Lost Genre Guild of a list of sci-fi cliches. Reading Double Vision reminded me of one particular alleged cliche and got me asking, “Why would aRead More →