Category: Christian Fiction

  • REVIEW of Lady Maybe, by Julie Klassen

    REVIEW of Lady Maybe, by Julie Klassen

    Loosely based on the story of Jane Eyre, Lady Maybe follows the romantic adventures of a servant mistakenly assumed to be her dead mistress. Per Julie Klassen’s usual, the plot is filled with mysteries embedded in the past, handsome suitors vying for the heroine’s attention, interesting secondary characters, and guilt and redemption. When scrolling through the…

  • REVIEW of Mist of Midnight, by Sandra Byrd

    REVIEW of Mist of Midnight, by Sandra Byrd

    I first fell in love with Sandra Byrd’s novels with her ladies-in-waiting books set during the Tudor Era. I was thrilled to learn that she would be releasing a novel of romantic suspense set during the Victorian Era, and now having read it, I must say that Mist of Midnight did not disappoint. Rebecca Ravenshaw returns to England after her…

  • REVIEW of The Secret of Pembrooke Park, by Julie Klassen

    REVIEW of The Secret of Pembrooke Park, by Julie Klassen

    I read my first Julie Klassen regency a little less than two years ago, and since then, I’ve completed every book in her canon. I love how she is able to write “inspirational” fiction by incorporating Christian themes with clever storytelling. I love how well-drawn her antagonists and secondary characters are, and I think this…

  • REVIEW of The Skin Map, by Stephen Lawhead

    Let me get this off my chest before I start: I am not a big fan of time travel novels or novels that jump back and forth between sets of characters in different time periods. With that said, I must acknowledge that I liked Stephen Lawhead’s new book, The Skin Map, more than I thought…

  • REVIEW of The Shack, by William P. Young

    When a book has been the talk of the town for over two years and on several best seller lists, it’s hard to say anything in your review that hasn’t been said already. Since William P. Young’s book The Shack debuted, I have heard several friends and family members discuss it. Opinions were diverse; some…

  • REVIEW of The Children of Men, by P. D. James

    I saw the movie of this same name (starring Clive Owen) a couple years ago when it came out in theaters. I vaguely remember it as a dystopian story featuring a very graphic birth scene, coming horrifically close to the birthing videos one would watch to get an EMT license. Recently, one of my Facebook…

  • REVIEW of The Chestnut King, by N. D. Wilson

    As the second post in my blitz, I am reviewing The Chestnut King, by N. D. Wilson. I realize that N. D. Wilson really deserves three posts all to himself, since The Chestnut King is the third and final book of a trilogy, but one short post is all I can afford. I dislike giving…

  • REVIEW of Veiled Freedom, by Jeanette Windle

    My friend Dave likes to talk about books and he likes to collect books, but he doesn’t always like to crack the cover and turn the pages. Recently, he handed me a book that he had purchased but never read, a book written by his cousin Jeanette Windle. The cover picture displayed several women clad…