The power of fiction, the beauty of words, and the God who made us to wield them for His glory.

First Line Friday – No Stone Unturned (David James Warren)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. It’s book club week for me, which means I’m currently in the middle of a race to finish this month’s book, Shades of Light by Sharon Garlough Brown, before our meeting tonight! 😬 It’s a heavier book than most, dealing as it does with depression and anxiety—and as someone who has had experience with depression, I can tell you it cuts close to the bone. I haven’t finished it yet, but if nothing else, I can tell you that this book portrays both the feelings of the sufferer and the feelings of those who are walking alongside the sufferer very well.

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9 April 2021

First Line Friday – Shades of Light (Sharon Garlough Brown)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. It’s book club week for me, which means I’m currently in the middle of a race to finish this month’s book, Shades of Light by Sharon Garlough Brown, before our meeting tonight! 😬 It’s a heavier book than most, dealing as it does with depression and anxiety—and as someone who has had experience with depression, I can tell you it cuts close to the bone. I haven’t finished it yet, but if nothing else, I can tell you that this book portrays both the feelings of the sufferer and the feelings of those who are walking alongside the sufferer very well.

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19 March 2021

First Line Friday – Before Time Runs Out (Amy Matayo)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. I’m a fairly eclectic reader, but time travel is one genre I don’t usually pick up. But right now, I’m in the middle of my SECOND time travel novel of 2021. The first book in Amy Matayo’s Charles & Company Romance series released this week: Before Time Runs Out, and I’m loving it so far. There’s a lot of fun to be had with a character from the 1940s and a character from the twenty-first century meeting up in the 1870s!

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12 March 2021

First Line Friday – This Life (Jennifer Rodewald)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. Next week is the release date for the next book in Jennifer Rodewald’s Murphy Brothers series: This Life. If you’ve read any of the other books in the series, you’ll already be familiar with Jacob and Kate—at least, as familiar as they’ve allowed readers to be so far. They haven’t exactly been giving off warm ‘n’ fuzzy vibes! I suspect we’re about to find out why…

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5 March 2021

First Line Friday – Shadows of the White City (Jocelyn Green)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. This week I’m finally diving into Jocelyn Green’s new release, Shadows of the White City. Jocelyn is one of my favourite historical fiction authors, and having enjoyed Veiled in Smoke last year, I’m keen to read Sylvie’s story and catch up with Meg and Nate. I especially love that this story takes place many years later. It’s not often we get to catch up with characters so many years down the track!

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26 February 2021

First Line Friday – Network of Deceit (Tom Threadgill)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. If you love suspense novels, you’re going to love the book I’m featuring today: Network of Deceit by Tom Threadgill. I’ve only just discovered this author, but I’ll definitely be keeping a lookout for his next novel, especially if it features Detective Amara Alvarez. I’ll have a review up in the next few days, but in the meantime, check out the first line!

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19 February 2021

First Line Friday – Cast the First Stone (David James Warren)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. Time-travel is not my normal reading fare, but I have to say I’m super excited for this new time-travel thriller series coming from the combined talents of Susan May Warren, her son David Warren, and James L. Rubart. If you want to know more about the series, make sure you check out their website at rembrandtstone.com. In the meantime, the first in the series released last Tuesday, so you can start reading right now! (After you finish reading this post, of course. 😉) I’m part way through and loving it!

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12 February 2021

First Line Friday – The Words Between Us (Erin Bartels)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. Tonight is our first book club for 2021, and our first book club read is my first line Friday choice this week: The Words Between Us by Erin Bartels. I’m looking forward to some good discussion about this one!

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5 February 2021