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

Top Ten Tuesday – Books That Surprised Me

Hi there, book lovers. Do you like surprises? I guess that depends on what the surprise is, doesn’t it? 😄 Well, we’re all about surprises for today’s Top Ten Tuesday with That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s books surprised me for different reasons. Perhaps I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, perhaps they had plot twists I didn’t see coming. Whatever the reason, here are ten books that surprised me.

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Fast Five Review Roundup

Welcome, book lovers! It’s time for another Fast Five Review Roundup. And I have quite a variety for you today. 🙂 I hope you find something that piques your interest!

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Most Anticipated Books of 2018 – Speculative

Welcome, reader friends. We’ve reached the final day of my Most Anticipated Books of 2018! Today we’re focusing on the speculative genre. This includes fantasy, sci-fi, futuristic, dystopian, and similar sub-genres—although not all of those are covered in the titles below. If you’d like to check out my previous posts, here are the links: Contemporary; Historical; Suspense; and Biblical Fiction. This post contains affiliate links. Click here for full disclosure.

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Top Ten Tuesday – Unique Book Titles

Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post! The girls at The Broke and the Bookish have come up with a really fun topic this week: Top Ten Unique Book Titles. I have to admit, I was a little stumped for a while, wracking my brain to try and think of unique titles, but once I started looking through my collections I came up with so many I had to go back and work out what to cut out! I’ve got quite an eclectic collection for you today: children’s books, general fiction, and some Christian fiction. Some are so well known

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Top Ten Tuesday, er Wednesday… um, Thursday? – 2017 Debuts I’m Excited For

Want to hear a funny story?  I’ve been planning on mixing up my blog posts a bit this year, now that I’m settling into the book blogging community and discovering all the fun things that go on.  One of the things I thought I would do this year is Top Ten Tuesday, masterminded by the gals at The Broke and the Bookish.  Good plan, huh?  Well, I’m good at plans.  But here is a classic example of what happens when plans land in my hands:

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Siren’s Song (Mary Weber) – Review

  A creaking sound erupts behind me through the red-illuminated dark and someone’s poking my shoulder. “This way.” A door opens, sending in a candlelit glow over my shoulder to light up the heavily curtained room and the three elderly Luminescents all seated in a row.  They’re so old it appears as if their skin is decaying.  I cough, and it’s as if I’m inhaling that scent of dead bodies on ice again.  I gag and shove off from the freezing chair I’ve been sitting on.  I am done with this place. Out of the dim, the dancing Cashlin guard’s

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