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First Line Friday – 1 June 2018 – The Solace of Water (Elizabeth Byler Younts)

Welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books! I have been looking forward to the book I’m featuring today since I first saw the cover for it months ago. Just have a look at the cover and tell me it doesn’t catch your eye. It’s called The Solace of Water by Elizabeth Byler Younts, and it’s one of many fantastic new releases that will be available from next Tuesday, 5 June 2018. Even better, you can pre-order it on Kindle for just $4.99!

1 June 2018

Becoming the Talbot Sisters (Rachel Linden) – Review

This review is posted as part of TLC Book Tours blog tour ~ About the Book ~ Twin sisters Waverly and Charlie Talbot have drifted far apart as they pursue opposite dreams of stardom and service to the poor. On an astonishing journey across Central Europe, they must come together to face their fears, find their courage and fight for what they love. Celebrity chef Waverly Ross has built a successful career with her home-entertaining show Simply Perfect. Yet she and her husband, Andrew, have never been able to realize the true desire of Waverly’s heart: to become a mother. Meanwhile Waverly’s twin sister,

14 May 2018

Top Ten Tuesday – Emotionally Exhausting Reads

Happy Tuesday, reader friends. We seem to be having a spate of difficult Top Ten Tuesday topics lately, and this week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is no different: Books I Loved But Will Never Reread. The problem is, I love re-reading my favourite books. If I loved it, there’s no way I could definitively say, “but I won’t ever read it again.” However…

10 April 2018

Fast Five Review Roundup

Hello, book lovers! If you wondering whether I’ve suddenly lost the ability to count, let me assure you, I have not! But my plans for this edition of the Fast Five Review Roundup were derailed somewhat when I stumbled upon the Brew Ha Ha series about two weeks ago and ended up binge-reading the whole lot! I couldn’t resist giving you my thoughts on the series, but that’s six books, and I already had two that were waiting for a Fast Five Review Roundup.

1 February 2018

Top Ten Tuesday – Books I Can't Believe I Haven't Read

Happy Tuesday, book lovers! I’ve actually turned today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic on its head. Today’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is actually Books I Can’t Believe I Read, but it turns out I can’t think of many books that fit that category (without being nasty, anyway) so I decided to do a Books I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read instead. So, here goes: These three novels would have to classify as stalwarts of the Christian fiction genre, and I confess, I’ve not read any of them. 😱 In the case of Janette Oke, I have to go a step further and say

30 January 2018

The Crooked Path (Irma Joubert) – Review

This review is part of TLC’s Blog Tour for this book. ~ About the Book ~ Lettie has always felt different from and overshadowed by the women around her– this friend is richer, that friend is more beautiful, those friends are closer. Still, she doesn’t let this hold her back. She works hard to apply her mind, trying to compensate for her perceived lack of beauty with diligent academic work and a successful career as a doctor. She learns to treasure her friendships, but she still wonders if any man will ever return her interest. Marco’s experience in the second

30 October 2017

Top Ten Tuesday – Unique Book Titles

Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post! The girls at The Broke and the Bookish have come up with a really fun topic this week: Top Ten Unique Book Titles. I have to admit, I was a little stumped for a while, wracking my brain to try and think of unique titles, but once I started looking through my collections I came up with so many I had to go back and work out what to cut out! I’ve got quite an eclectic collection for you today: children’s books, general fiction, and some Christian fiction. Some are so well known

24 October 2017

Ascension of Larks (Rachel Linden) – Review

This post is part of the TLC Book Tour for Ascension of Larks. ~ About the Book ~ When globetrotting photographer Magdalena Henry loses the only man she’s ever loved, she risks her stellar career to care for his widow and young children on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Free-spirited and fiercely independent, Maggie adores her life of travel and adventure. But she has a secret. She can’t let go of her first and only love, renowned architect Marco Firelli, now married to her best friend Lena.

17 August 2017

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