Speculative – Page 4 – Fiction Aficionado

First Line Friday – From Sky to Sky (Amanda G. Stevens)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. If you love fiction that makes you think and feel deeply, then you need to discover Amanda G. Stevens. I fell in love with her writing and her characters when I read her Haven Seekers series as a newbie blogger, and I just knew I’d be a fan of anything else she ever wrote, but even I couldn’t have imagined how much I would fall in love with the characters in her new series, which began with No Less Days and is now continuing with From Sky to Sky, released on 1 February 2020.

7 February 2020

First Line Friday – Hidden Current (Sharon Hinck)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. My First Line pick for this week is a book I reviewed earlier this week. (You can find that review here.) Hidden Current by Sharon Hinck released last Tuesday, and I absolutely loved it, so make sure you check it out!

31 January 2020

Hidden Current (Sharon Hinck) – Review + Giveaway

The dancers of the Order direct their floating world of Meriel with their movements, but are they steering it toward destruction?

Calara spent her life learning dance patterns and seeking to become the perfect servant to her people. When she discovers the work of the Order is built on lies, she flees with a rough-edged herder, Brantley of Windswell. Pursued by soldiers, her journey through the suffering villages of the rim leads her to a forgotten truth that sends ripples through her world-and through her soul.

29 January 2020

Looking Forward to Speculative and YA in 2020

Welcome to my final Looking forward to… post for the first half of 2020! Today I’ll be sharing upcoming speculative and young adult (YA) releases in Christian fiction. Speculative fiction is an umbrella term that encompasses not only fantasy and science fiction, but also novels that speculate about future events or are set in our world but include an element of the supernatural.

Young adult novels feature main characters who are aged in their teens, and are therefore often aimed at the teen market, however my experience is that they can often be enjoyed by not-so-young adults as well!

18 January 2020

Top Ten Tuesday – New-To-Me Authors I Read in 2019

Happy Tuesday, reader friends, and welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl.

I’m actually doing a double post today, because I read so many new-to-me authors last year that I can give you ten new-to-me Christian fiction authors and ten new-to-me general market authors! I had no idea I’d read so many, and five of them are Australian authors as well! I’m hoping to read more from these authors in the future.

14 January 2020

Top Ten Tuesday – Most Anticipated Reads for the First Half of 2020

Happy Tuesday, reader friends, and welcome to the first Top Ten Tuesday for 2020, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl.

Last week we looked back at some of my favourite reads for 2019, but this week we’re talking about our most anticipated reads for the first half of 2020. This is always a particularly difficult post for me, because how do you possibly narrow down six months worth of reading into your ten most anticipated reads?

7 January 2020

Best of 2019 – Emoji Files, Part IV: Take Me Away

Welcome back, reader friends! It’s time for Part IV of my annual Emoji Files celebrating my best reads of 2019. If you’ve missed my previous posts for 2019, make sure you check out The Swoony Awards, Got Me in the Feels, and The WOW Awards.

The Take Me Away Awards go to those books that were truly immersive reads, carrying me away to different times and places with authentic historical, sensory, and cultural details. Through these stories I’ve travelled all over the world and beyond and experienced castles, asylums, and so many things in between.

3 January 2020

Best of 2019 – Emoji Files, Part III: The WOW Awards

Hello again, reader friends! Welcome to Part III of my annual Emoji Files celebrating my best reads of 2019. If you’ve missed either of the posts to date, you can check out The Swoony Awards and Got Me in the Feels.

Today I’m presenting the WOW Awards for those books that kept me riveted with high-intensity action, pumping adrenaline, plot twists, or just some good old-fashioned suspense. And it’s not every year (in fact, not any year so far) that there is an opportunity to include a whole series, but that’s what I’m starting with this year.

2 January 2020

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