Women’s Fiction – Fiction Aficionado

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.

9 April 2021

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

19 March 2021

Best of 2020 – 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 2020. If you’ve missed either of the previous posts to date, make sure you check out The Swoony Awards and Got Me in the Feels.

Normally, the WOW Awards go to those books that kept me riveted with high-intensity action, pumping adrenaline, plot twists, or just some good old-fashioned suspense. And most of the books in this list did exactly that. This year, however, I’ve included two books that don’t necessary meet that criteria: Lu. by Beth Troy and Heartless by Tamara Leigh, both of which WOWed me in their own ways…

31 December 2020

First Line Friday – If I Were You (Lynn Austin)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. A new book from Lynn Austin is always something to look forward to, and the plot of her latest release, If I Were You has me all kinds of intrigued. It released last Tuesday, so it’s hot off the press, and I can’t wait to dive in! Any of my readers out there Lynn Austin fans?

5 June 2020

First Line Friday – Lu. (Beth Troy)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. Apologies for being absent last week. My site was down for several days, and even once it was back up again, there were more days of it being down intermittently. Hopefully all that is resolved now!

I love the first line of the book I’ve chosen for today’s First Line Friday post because it makes you think. On the one hand, it foreshadows the main themes of the story, both the truth that there is “nothing new under the sun” and the truth that, without Jesus, we are stuck in a meaningless cycle (yes, Ecclesiastes is a prominent theme in this book! Lol.)

But it’s also paradoxical too, because this is the story of how Lu gets out of that cycle. She has the ability to change the direction her story is taking.

22 May 2020

Looking Forward to General Fiction and Time-Slip in 2020

Welcome, reader friends. We’re nearly at the end of my Looking forward to… series of posts discussing all the fabulous reads coming your way in the first half of 2020. Today I’ll be sharing the general fiction and time-slip titles that will be releasing, but before I do, a quick note about what you will and will not find in this list.

In this case, general fiction simply means fiction that isn’t written for a specific genre (romance, suspense, etc). It may still contain some or all of those elements, but the story is primarily about a character’s literal or figurative journey.

16 January 2020

Katie & Rel’s Novel Gift Guide

Welcome, reader friends! Christmas is fast approaching, and if you’re anything like me, you’re still searching for the perfect gift for some of your family and friends. 😬 Last year, my dear friend Rel (from Relz Reviewz) and I put our heads together to give you some great recommendations to make your Christmas shopping a little bit easier, and we had so much fun we decided to do it again! As a result, here is Katie & Rel’s Novel Gift Guide for 2019!

14 December 2019

Interview + Giveaway: Lindsey Brackett

Hello, book lovers! Have any of my readers been to Edisto Island? That’s where we’re heading in today’s interview with author Lindsey P. Brackett, whose novel The Bridge Between is set on Edisto Island.

And while I have your attention, did you know you can get a free story from Lindsey…

12 September 2019

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