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

A Single Light (Tosca Lee) – Review

In this gripping sequel to The Line Between, which New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava calls “everything you want in a thriller,” cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to find a country ravaged by disease, and Wynter is the only one who can save it.

Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged—

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First Line Friday – A Single Light (Tosca Lee)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I’ve just finished reading A Single Light by Tosca Lee (the sequel to The Line Between) and couldn’t help but make it my first line Friday choice when I read the first line. Check it out and let me know what you think!

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First Line Friday – Iscariot: A Novel of Judas (Tosca Lee)

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. 

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The Line Between (Tosca Lee) – Review

When Wynter Roth finally escapes from New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.

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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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Firstborn (Tosca Lee) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Face-to-face with her past, Audra Ellison now knows the secret she gave up everything—including her memory—to protect. A secret made vulnerable by her rediscovery, and so powerful neither the Historian nor the traitor Prince Nikola will ever let her live to keep it. With Luka in the Historian’s custody and the clock ticking down on his life, Audra only has one impossible chance: find and kill the Historian and end the centuries old war between the Progeny and Scions at last—all while running from the law and struggling to control her growing powers.

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First Line Friday – 5 May 2017 – Firstborn (Tosca Lee)

Happy Friday all! As I write this I am 75% of the way through Firstborn by Tosca Lee, the sequel to her book Progeny. Wowzers! Let’s just say you’re lucky I could put the book down for long enough to write this post! 🙂 ~ About the Book ~ Face-to-face with her past, Audra Ellison now knows the secret she gave up everything—including her memory—to protect. A secret made vulnerable by her rediscovery, and so powerful neither the Historian nor the traitor Prince Nikola will ever let her live to keep it. With Luka in the Historian’s custody and the clock ticking

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Top Ten Tuesday – Books I SOOOO Could Have Read In One Sitting

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic, thanks to the girls at The Broke and The Bookish, is a Read In One Sitting theme. Gone are the days when I could read a book in one sitting! Reading a book in one day still happens occasionally (particularly if it’s a novella), although it’s usually more like 2-3 days, depending on what’s been happening on those days. But sometimes there are books that are REALLY hard to pull yourself out of; books that totally suck you into the world they create and leave you floundering in some strange alternate reality when a voice pipes

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