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

First Line Friday – Echoes Among the Stones

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. It’s one week until moving day here in the Donovan house, so reading time has become pretty scarce of late, but I have managed to delve into Jaime Jo Wright’s new release, Echoes Among the Stones. I love the Gothic atmosphere she creates in these time-slip mysteries!

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The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond (Jaime Jo Wright) – Review

~ About the Book ~ For over a century, the town of Gossamer Grove has thrived on its charm and midwestern values, but Annalise Forsythe knows painful secrets, including her own, hover just beneath the pleasant façade. When a man is found dead in his run-down trailer home, Annalise inherits the trailer, along with the pictures, vintage obituaries, and old revival posters covering its walls. As she sorts through the collection, she’s wholly unprepared for the ramifications of the dark and deadly secrets she’ll uncover. A century earlier, Gossamer Grove has been stirred into chaos by the arrival of controversial

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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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Top Ten Tuesday – New-To-Me Authors in 2017

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, book lovers! This week’s topic from the girls at The Broke and the Bookish is ‘New-to-me Authors I Read in 2017’. Folks, I found some FANTASTIC new-to-me authors in 2017, and they are all—without exception—on my ‘must read’ list now. Who are these writers, you ask? Allow me to introduce you! Karen Barnett I was part of Karen Barnett’s launch team for The Road to Paradise in June 2017, which have me my first taste of Karen’s writing. The setting came to life, particularly the trek up Mount Rainier at the end of the book, and

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