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

Posted 3 January 2020 by Katie in Christian Fiction, Contemporary, Science Fiction, Speculative, Suspense, Thriller, Time-slip / 2 Comments

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.

The Painted Castle by Kristy Cambron (read my review)
The Bright Unknown by Elizabeth Byler Younts (read my review)
The Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel Linden (read my reviews)

The King’s Mercy by Lori Benton (read my review)
Until the Mountains Fall by Connilyn Cossette (read my review)
Verity by Lisa T. Bergren (read my review)

Laurel’s Dream by Pepper Basham (read my review)
Between Two Shores by Jocelyn Green (read my review)
Flight of the Raven by Morgan L. Busse (read my review)

Which books took you away in 2019?

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One book that I became completely immersed in this year was In Spite of Lions. The fictional heroines follows missionaries David and Mary Livingstone into the African interior. It was fascinating!