Sometimes, a fantasy novel pulls you in, and sometimes you have to fight to stay in the story. Unfortunately, I found the latter to be true with The Realms Thereunder, the first book in The Ancient Earth Trilogy by Ross Lawhead. Lawhead mingles the United Kingdom of today with long-dead races and realms in this … Continue reading »
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As the kickoff for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) looms, I’m trying to finish reading a book I promised to review for Thomas Nelson, re-read the Nanovel I wrote last year and mine ideas from it for the sequel I intend to start writing tomorrow, and formulate my blog chain post for November’s “Nine Things” … Continue reading »
Book Review: The Bone House (Bright Empires Series Book 2) by Stephen R. Lawhead
I was blessed to obtain an e-book copy of The Bone House last week and pick up the story of Kit Livingstone and company where The Skin Map ended. I started reading Tuesday and would have finished yesterday but for that pesky obligation to get some sleep before work this morning. I just finished the … Continue reading »
Book Review: The Seraph Seal (ebook edition)
Leonard Sweet and Lori Wagner’s The Seraph Seal is my first ebook. I didn’t enjoy this novel as much as I expected to. There’s so much background to be laid and so many characters to follow that the story was slow and choppy to start. The action picked up later, but by then I was … Continue reading »
Book Review: The Skin Map by Stephen R. Lawhead
Tattoos and time travel – an intriguing blend that creates a promising beginning for Stephen Lawhead’s Bright Empires series. To be accurate, Lawhead doesn’t write only about time travel in The Skin Map, but about travel in both time and space, using ley lines to navigate from one reality to another. The book does a … Continue reading »
Book Review: Nick of Time by Tim Downs
This was my first visit to the life of Tim Downs’ Bug Man, Dr. Nick Polchak, but it won’t be my last. Who would have thought “bug things” – to borrow a phrase from Nick’s fiancee, dog trainer extraordinaire Alena Savard – could be so entertaining? I’m a fan of TV police and forensics procedurals; … Continue reading »
Book Review: Max on Life by Max Lucado
Max on Life is the second of Lucado’s books I’ve read. Like Cast of Characters, this book is written in the same encouraging voice and easy conversational style Lucado uses in his UpWords radio program. The 172 essays in Max on Life are like having an ongoing conversation, as though you walked into Max’s study and … Continue reading »
Book Review: The Final Summit
Andy Andrews’ The Final Summit is labeled “Self-Help/Motivational/General” on the back cover above the bar code, but it isn’t nonfiction. It’s a novel mostly peopled by well-known figures from throughout history. From Winston Churchill to Bear Bryant, from Joan of Arc to George Washington Carver, the cast of characters in this book would indeed make … Continue reading »
Book Review: Saint Patrick by Jonathan Rogers (From The Christian Encounters Series)
Patrick of Ireland is a man richly clothed in legend, thanks to the tales told about him in the centuries following his life. In Saint Patrick, Jonathan Rogers distinguishes the legends from the truth, which is remarkable enough not to require embellishment. Patrick, a Roman British citizen in the early 400s AD, was kidnapped as … Continue reading »
