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

Cover Reveal: Fortune’s Fall (Katherine Barger)

Welcome to the cover reveal for Fortune’s Fall by Katherine Barger.

While her classmates prepare for elite careers across America, Nyssa Ardelone trains for her secret job as the president’s dream interpreter. But when her mentor lies to the president about the prophecy in his latest dream, Nyssa must figure out why before the lie unravels. What she learns could destroy her own future.  

Fearful of a rumored rebellion, the president has launched a gas attack on Nyssa’s hometown, and her mentor lied about the dream to protect the survivors from more harm. When Nyssa learns her parents were injured in the attack, she flees with a stranger sent to steal the antidote—a stranger who claims to know her. 

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9 September 2020

Reclaiming Shilo Snow (Mary Weber) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Known as a brilliant mind that could hack humanity’s darkest secrets, seventeen-year-old Sofi Snow is the most wanted teenager alive. She found her way to the icy, technologically brilliant planet of Delon to find Shilo, the brother everyone but Sofi believes is dead. But as she and Ambassador Miguel partner to find her brother and warn those on Earth of Delon’s dark designs on humanity, Sofi’s memories threaten to overtake her, distorting everything she holds true. She knows the Delonese kept her in a dark, deceptive place . . . and destroyed a portion of

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24 February 2018

Best of 2017 – The Emoji Files, Part III: The WOW Awards

Welcome to day three of The Emoji Files, showcasing my favourite reads of 2017 by the emoji they best correspond to. So far this week I’ve had The Swoony Awards and The LOL Awards, and today we’re looking at The WOW Awards: those books that had me riveted to the page and often on the edge my seat.

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5 January 2018

All Things Now Living (Rondi Bauer Olson) – Review

This review is posted as part of the Litfuse Blog Tour for All Things Now Living. ~ About the Book ~ Sixteen-year-old Amy doesn’t like anything to die, she won’t even eat the goats or chickens her mama has butchered every fall, but she can’t let herself pity the inhabitants of New Lithisle. In a few short months the dome they built to isolate themselves from the deadly pandemic is predicted to collapse, but her whole life Amy has been taught it’s God’s will they die. They traded their souls for immunity to the swine flu virus, brought God’s curse upon

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4 December 2017

Charging the Darkness (J. Rodes) – Review

~About the Book ~ You were not saved for this…  They tore the veil. Now the country is ripping apart. The captive Uncloaked have been freed, and the people now know the dark truth. A rebellion against the Party has begun. But a question lingers among those who are safely hidden in the Refuge—what will happen to their broken nation? Secrets and shame, resentment and hatred shake the divided country. In the turbulence of the fallout, Braxton Luther finds himself in a new kind of battle. Eliza Knight is back, but her heart is not the same. They will be

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26 September 2017

First Line Friday – 22 September 2017 – Charging the Darkness (J. Rodes)

Happy Friday all! I am firmly in the grip of my First Line Friday selection this week: Charging the Darkness, which is the final book in the dystopian trilogy The Uncloaked by Jennifer Rodewald (writing as J. Rodes). If you haven’t read this series yet, you might like to check out my reviews for The Uncloaked and Tearing the Veil. If you have read the first two books in this series, then no doubt you will be as anxious as I have been to read the final installment, which releases this Tuesday, 26 September. You can also pre-order right now for $1.99!

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22 September 2017