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I recently had the opportunity to read Rain Dance by Joy DeKok, a re-release of her 2006 novel , this time from Sheaf House. I have to say, I like the revised edition’s cover much better: First off all, if you don’t like books that you need a box of Kleenex near by to read, you might want to stop reading now, because I sobbed like a baby. Of course, I’m in much the same shoes as Jonica, who the author admits in an afterward is based upon her own struggles with infertility and shockingly rude people who make me feel either grateful for myRead More →

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Truth Or Dare , the first in Nicole O’Dell’s new Scenarios series from Barbour publishing,  has a wonderful premise and concept: allow the reader to make a key decision for the main character and choose between two different endings based upon that decision. Most curious souls will end up reading both of course; at least I usually exhausted all the possibilities in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. The Scenarios series features young heroines whom middle school age girls will easily relate to and has enormous potential to help today’s youth make better decisions by showing them the consequences of choices they may have toRead More →

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This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Timescape from Thomas Nelson (July 14, 2009)  by Robert Liparulo ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Liparulo is a former journalist, with over a thousand articles and multiple writing awards to his name. His first novel, Comes a Horseman, was released to critical acclaim. His other titles include Germ, Deadfall, and Deadlock—secured his place as one of today’s most popular and daring thriller writers. He is known for investing deep research into his stories and has appeared as an expert on the topics that arise in his fiction on such media outlets as CNN and ABC Radio. Currently,Read More →

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In this 200 page Christian living title from waterbrook press, Joni Lamb, Vice President of Christian television’s Daystar Network, takes a half a cup of scripture, a tablespoon of a classic hymn, and three cups of anecdotes, bakes it at 350 degrees, and produces Surrender All: Your Answer to Living with Peace, Power, and Purpose Seriously, quick, concise and thought provoking, Surrender All conveys a central point of the Christian faith that is often missed by Christians engulfed in a self-worshiping culture that demands we be independent and in control at all times rather than God-dependent followers of Christ who take up the cross andRead More →

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This month the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour is featuring Tuck by Stephen R. Lawhead, the third book in the King Raven trilogy. Like all book threes, it struggles to arise to the challenge of standing alone, and compared to it’s own race, does fairly well, though it slides dangerously close to that zone where new readers still feel like latecomers who’ve missed most of the story (because they have) and existing fans are going, “yawn, I know this already,” though I’d say most of the recap was necessary. Lawhead’s craft is a tad old fashioned for my tastes, and some readers mayRead More →