A blessed Good Friday to you, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I have an Easter-themed book for you today—one that I’ve been wanting to read for a while but have only just purchased thanks to a gift card I received recently (don’t you love gift cards?): Iscariot by Tosca Lee.
~ About the Book ~ First-century Corinth is a city teeming with commerce and charm. It’s also filled with danger and corruption—the perfect setting for Ariadne’s greatest adventure. After years spent living with her mother and oppressive grandfather in Athens, Ariadne runs away to her father’s home in Corinth, only to discover the perilous secret that destroyed his marriage: though a Greek of high birth, Galenos is the infamous thief who has been robbing the city’s corrupt of their ill-gotten gains. Desperate to keep him safe, Ariadne risks her good name, her freedom, and the love of the man she
Hi there, and thanks for stopping by my blog today. I’m not sure about you, but the word ‘controversial’ always grabs my attention. What can I say? In my dictionary, ‘controversial’ often equals ‘intellectually stimulating’. However, pair ‘controversial’ with ‘Biblical fiction’ and I’m likely to get nervous, too. And that leads me to the book that is the topic of today’s interview: A Conspiracy of Breath by Latayne Scott. What if God breathed through a woman to author the book of Hebrews? Would you find it interesting? Or conspiratorial?
~ About the Book ~ Purple. The foundation of an influential trade in a Roman world dominated by men. One woman rises up to take the reins of success in an incredible journey of courage, grit, and friendship. And along the way, she changes the world. But before she was Lydia, the seller of purple, she was simply a merchant’s daughter who loved three things: her father, her ancestral home, and making dye. Then unbearable betrayal robs her of nearly everything.
First Line Friday is coming to you all the way from sunny/foggy/rainy Melbourne today. 🙂 For those of you not up on your Australian geography, that means I’m 1,000km (600 miles) from my home north of Sydney in the Hunter Valley. Yesterday morning I had a wonderful time chatting with the lovely Rel from Relz Reviewz. And what better place for us to meet than at a Christian bookstore! It just so happens that I spied a copy of the novel I will be featuring today on the shelf! (A bit of a surprise since it’s only just released, and
Welcome to the Easter edition of First Line Friday. 🙂 I hope you have a blessed time celebrating the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour this weekend. One of my all-time favourite series is Bodie & Brock Thoene’s A.D. Chronicles. If you’re after fiction that explores the parables and accounts from the Gospels,