You know that moment when you finish a book and you know that what it spoke to you is not what it did not probably any other reader. Ever. Oh, that doesn't happen to you? Well, perhaps I'm just weird but from random time to time it happens to me. When I sat down to read 'A Refuge Assured' I was ...
Fiction
BOOK REVIEW: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Writing this review is slowly killin' me. It's so hard! Let me tell ya why, since you didn't really ask. I love epic, sweeping, coming-of-age, full-life stories. I love truly getting to know a character through the stages of life, possibly why I read so many books that are in a series. However, ...
BOOK REVIEW: Once Upon a Prince by Rachel Hauck
Rachel Hauck is totally one of ‘my people’. Seriously, last year with the launch of my favorite book for all of 2017, ‘The Writing Desk’, I had an opportunity to get to know her and she’s good people. That being said when I found out her book ‘Once Upon a Prince’ had been picked up for movie rights ...
BOOK REVIEW: Cherished Mercy by Tracie Peterson
If you have read my other reviews of the books in the Heart of the Frontier series ('Treasured Grace' and 'Beloved Hope') you'll notice that my review of each book was a bit more positive then the previous. Perhaps because I grew to know the characters better with each addition. Perhaps because ...
BOOK REVIEW: Starting From Scratch by Kate Lloyd
The second book in the Lancaster Discoveries series is as different from the first as sausage gravy and brown gravy. If you haven't read my review of 'A Letter from Lancaster County' you should. It was set in Amish county but wasn't specifically about the Amish. We are in the same community, the ...