Relationships – Fiction Aficionado

When I Lost My Way (Jennifer Rodewald) – Review

Their whirlwind romance takes the hard road toward happily-ever-after as disaster tests their love and their faith in God’s goodness.

Sophie Shultz smiles at her future even when she doesn’t feel like it. After a lifetime of fearing she’d never fit in anywhere, she’s found a place to belong in the small town of Big Prairie. When a country drive leaves this city girl stranded in the mud, the cowboy who stops to help gives her plenty to smile about. For real. Lance Carson is tall, handsome, and kind, if a little on the quiet side—not to mention the owner of Big Prairie’s celebrated vineyard. Her adopted hometown keeps getting better…

27 May 2020

Beyond Awkward Side Hugs (Bronwyn Lea) – Review + Giveaway

It Doesn’t Have to Be This Weird

When it comes to relationships between men and women, we have more questions than answers:

How do we keep relationships with the opposite sex healthy—and still hug each other after small group?

Is it possible for married men and women to be friends with people of the opposite sex?

What does it mean to be a woman if you’re not a wife, or a man if you’re not a husband?

Jesus’ pattern for church living was one of family—of brothers and sisters living in intimate, life-giving community with each other…

27 April 2020

Grace in Deep Waters (Christine Dillon) – Review

William Macdonald is at the pinnacle of his career. Pastor of a growing megachurch and host of a successful national radio programme. Clever and respected, he’s a man with everything, including a secret. His wife has left him and he can’t risk anyone finding out.

Blanche Macdonald is struggling. Her once rock-solid marriage is showing cracks. She promised to love her husband for better or for worse, but does loving always mean staying?

29 July 2019

Wooing Cadie McCaffrey (Bethany Turner) – Review

After four years with her boyfriend, Cadie McCaffrey is thinking of ending things. Convinced Will doesn’t love her in the “forever” way she loves him, Cadie believes it’s time for her to let him go before life passes her by. When a misunderstanding leads to a mistake, leaving her hurt, disappointed, and full of regret, she finally sends him packing.

27 May 2019

The Printed Letter Bookshop (Katherine Reay) – Review

Love, friendship, and family find a home at the Printed Letter Bookshop. One of Madeline Cullen’s happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles and her own bitter losses have hardened…

22 May 2019

Top Ten Tuesday – Favourite Platonic Relationships in Books

Greetings, book lovers! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl, and today’s topic is Platonic Relationships in Books. In other words, non-romantic relationships. And so today, I have a wide variety of non-romantic relationships to share with you, all involving some manner of friendship from familial right through to Bible study groups!

27 November 2018

Things Left Unsaid (Courtney Walsh) – Review

~ About the Book ~ An emotional novel of family, friendship and forgiveness from Courtney Walsh, the New York Times bestselling author of Hometown Girl. Lyndie St. James is thrilled that her best friend, Elle, is getting married but unprepared for the emotional storm of the wedding week and returning to her childhood summer home of Sweethaven. The idyllic cottage community harbors some of her best—and worst—memories. It’s not only the tragic death of her childhood friend Cassie that has haunted her for ten years, it’s the other secrets she’s buried that have kept her from moving on. But Lyndie isn’t the only

10 November 2018

Lies We Tell Ourselves (Amy Matayo) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Presley Waterman is a rescuer: of animals, of businesses, of people. Like the stray cat she’s allergic to, but continues to care for. Like her small-town newspaper, a business that’s been dying a slow death for the better part of a decade. And like Micah. Her best friend and the man she has loved since they were kids, back when no one else cared. As for him… Micah Leven loves Presley. She’s the girl who’s always been there to help, the one who knows all the ugly things about him and makes him believe he can

22 September 2018

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