My single sentence review of Oscar and the Mystery of the Glowing Orbs is that it is an interesting story with baffling execution that brings up a lot of good ideas and then utterly fails […]
Depending on who you ask, the Tolkien estate is either unearthing mithril or have delved too greedily and too deep. Despite having passed in 1973, Tolkien still manages to produce several books per year—all new […]
I have followed Travis Thrasher’s career for as long as I’ve been reviewing books and was sent an advance copy of Thrasher’s then-upcoming novel from FaithWords called Ghostwriter. I was hooked. Thrasher’s Solitary Tales series […]
Sara Watterson’s This Dreamer holds the distinction of being the first independently published novel to win a Christy Award. That alone is a huge accomplishment. While the big publishers have the right to just pay […]
James Patterson’s collaborations with Emily Raymond have wandered somewhere in between mediocre (Injustice) to absolutely awful (Little Black Dress, Humans Bow Down, and pretty much the rest of their collabs). The Girl in the Castle […]
Gwendy’s Button Box was a bit of an outlier for Stephen King in that he co-wrote it—not something he typically does—but it was otherwise vintage King. Young child? Check. Mysterious stranger? Check. A parable about […]
In a major departure from James Patterson’s previous work, When the Wind Blows is a sci-fi thriller that thrives on the fantastical. The story is about Frannie O’Neill, a young veterinarian, trying to grieve the […]
Just over a decade ago, I was getting my start as a book critic and came across this little Christian spec-fic publisher that was just getting started called Marcher Lord Press. One of their early […]
It is shocking how un-James Patterson-esque The Thomas Berryman Number is. James Patterson’s debut novel is almost anti-Patterson—long, lingering descriptions; a complex plot with crisscrossing flashbacks, a literary flair—it’s nothing what you’d expect. And this […]
It’s not often that I review a book that has been out for some time and it has zero Amazon reviews, zero Goodreads reviews, zero reviews anywhere on the internet that I can find. The […]
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