Fiction
Forward Me Back to You – Mitali Perkins
This book released a few years ago, but I never got around to reading it, partly because I knew it dealt with heavy topics. I finally read it this past week, and loved it so […]
Genre: Young Adult
Children's Books
And They Found Dragons – Rachelle and Ted Dekker
With vivid imagery, a strong message, and an engaging story, Ted and Rachelle Dekker give young readers an adventure they’ll not be able to put down. And They Found Dragons is an intense, thought-provoking, mind-opening, […]
Fiction
A Brutal Justice (Nede Rising #2) – Jess Corban
I put some big shoes on A Brutal Justice when I effusively praised its predecessor, A Gentle Tyranny. The two books comprise the Nede Rising duology and tells the story of Raina Pierce, granddaughter of […]
Fiction
Castle of Refuge – Melanie Dickerson
The name Melanie Dickerson is synonymous with Christian fairytale retellings. Over the past few years, Dickerson has been able to recreate numerous fairytales and her newest retelling, a twist on the Ugly Duckling, is a […]
Fiction
The Story King (Sunlit Lands #3) – Matt Mikalatos
And so we come to the end of The Sunlit Lands. After two years, Matt Mikalatos is finally giving readers the long-awaited conclusion to The Sunlit Lands with The Story King. Where to even begin? […]
Fiction
The Heartwood Crown (Sunlit Lands #2) – Matt Mikalatos
*Attention: contains spoilers for The Crescent Stone (The Sunlit Lands #1)* Okay. The most difficult part of writing a review for The Crescent Stone was not spoiling the great big twist that serves as the […]
Fiction
The Crescent Stone (Sunlit Lands #1) – Matt Mikalatos
The Sunlit Lands had been on my radar for a while, but I had missed The Crescent Stone when it first came out and, as a reviewer, it’s often difficult to get back to old […]
Fiction
A Gentle Tyranny (Nede Rising #1) – Jess Corban
The potential for A Gentle Tyranny’s premise to go horribly wrong is tremendous, but it’s a calculated risk that pays off enormously at the end. I feel it’s only right that I mention that at […]
Fiction
Searching for Normal – CJ Darlington
Shay Mitchell’s life has fallen apart. The trauma of losing your mother before you ever knew her really never goes away, but Shay and her dad had built a life for themselves together. Then he […]
Fiction
Easy Target – Tim Shoemaker
Easy Target is a good example of a novel that never quite understood the kind of tone it wanted to set. At the outset, we’re thrown into a world set from the kid-perspective, where parents […]