Welcome to the weekend, book lovers! Are you ready to discover a new author with me?
This week I’m featuring an author who wears a few different genre hats. Her Carrington Family novels are time-slip stories (a contemporary and a historical plot that are linked), her stand-alone romance novels are contemporary retellings of a biblical story, and her Book Nerds and Boyfriends novellas are fun romcoms. But despite these differences…
~ About the Book ~ They were prisoners of the past. Could legacy be the key to set them free? Olivia Arroyo knows who she is and where she’s going—her sense of family responsibility a stepping-stone to her dream of becoming a chef. When her employer refuses her the chance to move from server to the kitchen, she makes another opportunity for herself with the owner of a new food truck. But her life derails when a hidden piece of her past suddenly comes to light, and she discovers everything she thought she knew about herself has been a lie.
Welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books! Those of us who have enjoyed the first two books in Sarah Monzon’s Carrington Family series have been waiting very patiently (mostly) for Adam’s story, but the wait is finally over! Look for my review coming soon!
Have you heard the news? There’s a fabulous collection of novellas coming out next month—in fact, in one month from today!—called Timeless Love. Seven romances through the ages (from 1812 through to 2018) by seven authors: Andrea Boeshaar, Misty M. Beller, Stephenia H. McGee, Dawn Crandall, Kari Trumbo, Pepper Basham, and Sarah Monzon.
Happy Tuesday! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic made me laugh: Books that Take Place in Another Country. Since I live in Australia, almost every book I read takes place in another country. 😄 So I’ve decided to tweak the topic a little and share ten different countries I have visited in books. Since the vast majority of books I read are set in the US, I’ve decided to exclude that country from the list, and since I live in Australia, I’m not going to include books set here either. (But if you’re after a good one, check out Kara Isaac’s Then There
Happy New Year, reader friends! Welcome to the first part of my Best of 2017 series, which I’ve affectionately called ‘The Emoji Files’. When I sat down to try and do my ‘Best of 2017’ post, I ended in a completely bookish mess. I read 200 books in 2017, and since I’m pretty good at picking books I really enjoy, it gets difficult to narrow it down to a list of 10, or even 20. Then there’s the fact that I’m a pretty eclectic reader within the Christian fiction genre. I enjoy different books for different reasons, so it’s kind
If you’re looking for a unique contemporary romance, look no further than The Esther Paradigm. I had the pleasure of reviewing this novel earlier this year, and I was absolutely entranced—firstly by the hero, Karim Al-Amir, 😊 but also by the way in which Hannah and her family immersed themselves in the Muslim culture in order to reach the Bedouins for Christ. You can read my review here, but today we’re going to meet the author, Sarah Monzon.
~ About the Book ~ The daughter of missionaries, Hannah Pratt dreams of starting a school for the Bedouin clan with whom she spent her childhood. After completing her education in the United States, she returns to the desert to pursue that dream—only to learn her parents have been receiving threats from within the community they serve. As the danger escalates, Hannah must decide how far she’ll go to stay faithful to a calling that could cost her everything. As sheikh, Karim Al-Amir feels the weight of responsibility as the leader of his people. When a mysterious illness ravages the