Book Reviews (Page 8)

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Heartless from Bethany House (July 1, 2010) by Anne Elisabeth Stengl ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anne Elisabeth Stengl makes her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she is as an art teacher, giving private lessons from her personal studio, and teaching group classes at the Apex Learning Center. She studied illustration at Grace College and English literature at Campbell University. Heartless is her debut novel. ABOUT THE BOOK Princess Una of Parumvir has come of age and will soon be married. She dreams of a handsome and charming prince, but when the first suitor arrives, she finds him stodgy andRead More →

This month, the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour is featuring Starlighter, the first novel in the Dragons of Starlight series by Bryan Davis. Starlighter has a dual plot line—the heroine is Koren, an orphaned slave on a world where dragons rule and humans are treated like cattle, forced to dig holes to release ignitable gas into the atmosphere that the dragons need to survive, and fear their masters eat them when they’re “Promoted,” which supposedly involved being sent to cooler northern climes. The other plot line involves Jason, a teen boy who takes over his brother’s job guarding the despotic governor and palaceRead More →

I had the pleasure to read By Darkness Hid by Jill Williamson, first book in the Blood of Kings series, from Marcher Lord Press (2009). Though by far not a short read at 490 pages, it is a quick paced read, and charming, and engaging. Jill is a talented author from Oregon, whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting at Writers Conferences. Though she originally targeted the series for YA, I have to agree with her publisher, sixteen and seventeen in the characters’ world is much more like eighteen and nineteen in ours. Achan Cham and Vrell Sparrow  are young, but they’re dealing with most adultRead More →

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing The Sword Crossway Books (April 30, 2010) by Bryan M. Litfin ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bryan Litfin was born in Dallas, but lived in Memphis, Tennessee and Oxford, England, where he discovered that the house of his favorite author, J.R.R. Tolkien, was only five doors down from his own. Bryan still enjoys epic adventure stories, as well as historical fiction. However, most of his reading these days is taken up by academia. After marrying his high school sweetheart, Carolyn (a true Southern belle), he went on to study for a master’s degree in historical theology at DallasRead More →