Fiction
The Love Scam – Jeffrey McClain Jones
Normally when a book is bad, I just don’t review it. The Love Scam is different. It’s so bad I had to review it. The Love Scam is a poorly-written pile of cringeworthy sentences that […]
Genre: Fiction
Fiction
The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus – Jaime Jo Wright
The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus is a story told in two times, in two halves. The past storyline is a reasonably told tale of mystery, deceit, and death (with just the right amount of kitsch). […]
Fiction
The Escape – Lisa Harris
The Escape begins with a bang and never lets up. That becomes its biggest strength and greatest weakness. US Marshals Madison James and Jonas Quinn find themselves unlikely partners on a prisoner transport mission. They’ve […]
Fiction
Bullseye: Will Robie/Camel Club Crossover Short Story – David Baldacci
There was a time in the early 2010s that well-known authors and publishers were flirting with the concept of ebook-only short stories/novellas that either brought additional flavor to well-known characters, added depth to well-known stories, […]
Fiction
The Sowing Season – Katie Powner
The Sowing Season—the story about a gruff old man who befriends a young teenage girl in a Hallmark movie kind of way—isn’t exactly my typical reading fare. But sometimes you just need something different and […]
Fiction
The Conqueror – Bryan Litfin
I knew Bryan Litfin from his scholarly work, his professorship at Moody Bible Institute, and his work with The Gospel Coalition. When I saw that he was writing a historical fiction trilogy set within the […]
Fiction
The Cul-de-Sac War – Melissa Ferguson
The Cul-de-Sac War by Melissa Ferguson is a humorous and lighthearted story about neighbors who are at war with each other. This is one story where you really cannot go by first impressions…or can you? […]
Fiction
I Was Called Barabbas – M.D. House
“My given name was Jesus. I never liked that name, even as a boy. It didn’t fit me somehow, and my later infamous connection to the son of Joseph the Carpenter made it unbearable. So, […]
Fiction
The Defiance – Laura Gallier
The Defiance by Laura Gallier is the latest in the author’s “The Deception” series. The poor teenagers in these novels experience spiritual warfare in the physical sense. They see it, and it can affect their bodies. […]
Fiction
The Deception – Laura Gallier
The Deception by Laura Gallier is book #2 of The Delusion series, and it picks up not long after The Delusion concludes…if you could call the first book’s cliffhanger ending a “conclusion.” The Deception also ends in a cliffhanger, just a […]