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

Best of 2017 – The Emoji Files, Part II: The LOL Awards

Welcome to Part II of my Best of 2017 series: The Emoji Files. You can find our more about this series in yesterday’s Part I post, which also includes the Swoony Awards, so I highly recommend you check it out! As you might well imagine from the title, today’s list contains books that I read in 2017 that tickled my funny bone. The humour in these stories raised everything from a wry smile to a gut-busting belly laugh.

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4 January 2018

The Austen Escape (Katherine Reay) – Review

This review is part of the TLC Book Tour for The Austen Escape. ~ About the Book ~ Falling into the past will change their futures forever. Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and productive life. Working as an engineer, she genuinely enjoys her job and her colleagues—particularly a certain adorable and intelligent consultant. But something is missing. When Mary’s estranged childhood friend, Isabel Dwyer offers her a two-week stay in a gorgeous manor house in England, she reluctantly agrees in hopes that the holiday will shake up her quiet life in just the right ways. But Mary gets more

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23 November 2017

First Line Fridays – 13 October 2017 – Just Maybe (Crystal Walton)

Welcome to another week of First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books! I have a brand new contemporary romance for you today that I absolutely adored! You can read my review here. If you haven’t discovered Crystal Walton yet, do yourself a favour and pick up one of her books! Carrie over at Reading is my Superpower is featuring the first line of this book on her blog today, and it’s a real teaser! So I’m going to put the second line for you in my post today. You can let me know whether it answers some of your questions,

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13 October 2017

Just Maybe (Crystal Walton) – Review

~ About the Book ~ When a case of mistaken identity spirals into a more-than-complicated pretend relationship, an adventure seeker and a grammar fanatic just might’ve met each other’s match. Three weeks. That’s all the time self-made billionaire Cooper Anderson has to respond to discovering he’s a single dad, sell his lake house, and catch a one-way ticket across the world. The quick-witted nanny responding to his ad couldn’t be more of a life saver … and maybe a nice distraction. Until the secrets she’s hiding get a little too close to exposing his own. The one lead guaranteeing Quinn

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12 October 2017

My Unexpected Hope (Tammy L. Gray) – Review

~ About the Book ~ After a year of grieving her divorce and living a life permanently stuck on pause, Laila Richardson is finally ready to have her own happy ending. Then a listing for a quaint cottage in another town answers her prayers for a fresh beginning—one that will bring her closer to her new boyfriend, Ben. Unfortunately, in her small town of Fairfield, Georgia, letting go of the past is virtually impossible. No one wants to see her move on, including the man who destroyed her heart to begin with. Chad Richardson has spent years in misery but

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4 August 2017

Begin Again (Crystal Walton) – Review

  Publisher’s Description: What happens when a free-spirited artist from big-city New York collides with an uptight business owner from small-town Ocracoke? Fireworks. The kind neither saw coming. A single call is all it takes to drive artist Ti Russo into what she does best. Run. But hey, lying low in a beach town for a while isn’t so bad. Thanks to the distraction of playing consultant to a guy she’s determined to crack, she can almost forget about the past stalking her back home. But she never counted on the real danger being a picket-fenced life she has no

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2 February 2017