Book Reviews
Book Review: A Hope Undaunted by Julie Lessman
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon A Hope Undaunted by Julie Lessman Revell Publishing, 01 October 2010 The 1920s are drawing to a close, and feisty Katie O'Connor is the epitome of the new woman--smart and sassy with goals for her future that include the perfect...
Book Review: Assassins (Left Behind Series, Book 6) by Tim Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon Assassins by Tim Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins The members of the Tribulation Force face their most dangerous challenges. As international fugitives, they struggle to find supplies for safe houses around the world. In...
Book Review: The Colonel’s Lady by Laura Frantz
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon The Colonel's Lady by Laura Frantz Revell Publishing, 01 Sept 2011 In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has...
Book Review: Lilies in Moonlight by Allison Pittman
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon Lilies In Moonlight by Allison Pittman Multnomah Publishers, 01 April 2011 He’d lost his zest for life. She was just lost. Will they find the healing and love they long for? After a roaring night on the town, fun-loving...
Book Review: Jack Hunter – Secret of the King by Martin King
"Jack Hunter: Secret of the King" is the debut novel of English author, Martin King. The book is an adventure book aimed at 8-13 year olds, available as an ebook. Jack Hunter is a 12 year old boy whose family moves to a new town in the summer. Jack is not happy...
Book Review: Perfectly Invisible by Kristin Billerbeck
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon Perfectly Invisible by Kristin Billerbeck Baker Revell Publishers, 01 July 2011 It's Daisy Crispin's final trimester of high school, and she plans to make it count. Her long-awaited freedom is mere months away, and her big plans...
Book Review: The Lightkeeper’s Ball by Colleen Coble
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon The Lightkeeper's Ball by Colleen Coble Thomas Nelson Publishing, 19 April 2011 It is the dawn of a new century and Olivia Stewart is heiress to an empire. Her family numbers among the Four Hundred—those considered the wealthiest...
Book Review: Perfectly Dateless by Kristin Billerbeck (Young Adult Fiction)
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon Daisy Crispin has 196 days to find the right date for the prom. There's only one problem--her parents won't let her date or even talk to a guy on the phone. Oh, and she's totally invisible at school, has to wear lame...
Book Review: Tea for Two by Trish Perry
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon "Counsellor Tina Milano has been visiting Milly’s Tea Shop regularly for the past several months. She has many friends but no steady man in her life. Zack Cooper is a local farmer who provides Milly with fresh fruit and...
Book Review: “The New Strong-Willed Child” by Dr. James Dobson
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon For those of you who have already been following our blog, you will probably be thinking that this review comes out of the blue. This book doesn't run in accordance with our usual genres, and I hadn't mentioned it...
Book Review: The Schoolmaster’s Bride by Meredith Resce
Available @ Amazon Australian author Meredith Resce has crafted a wonderful story set in small town Australia. Dianne Pierceson, newly widowed and desperate for work arrives in the small town of Carlton as the new schoolteacher. Her new employer, the stern and...
Book Review: Apollyon (Left Behind Series, Book 5) by Tim Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon "Apollyon" sees the tone of the Left Behind Series darkening as the wrath of God continues to pour out onto the world. We say goodbye to more members of the Tribulation Force, and death and suffering are rife...
Book Review: Soul Harvest (Left Behind Series, Book 4) by Tim Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon Wow. This Left Behind Series just gets more exciting. "Soul Harvest" begins with the desperate search for loved ones after the devastating earthquake that rocked the whole world in the last pages of the previous book in the...
Book Review: Nicolae (Left Behind Series, book 3) by Tim Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon This is book 3 of the Left Behind Series. Right when alot of story lines are fading by the third book in a series, this is just taking off. The book is non stop action from the beginning, and picks up right where Tribulation...
Book Review: Friends like These by Wendy Harmer
This is the first book written by Wendy Harmer that I have read. I used to listen to her breakfast radio show years ago and always thought she was funny, so I've been interested to read one of her books for a while. This book is set in Sydney against the backdrop of...
Book Review: Where the River Ends by Charles Martin
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon Where the River Ends by Charles Martin Broadway, 23 June 2009 A powerfully emotional and beautifully written story of heartbreaking loss and undying love He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a South Georgia...
Book Review: A Passion Denied by Julie Lessman
Today I am reviewing A Passion Denied by Julie Lessman as a guest reviewer over at Overcoming Through Time - With God's Help. This is the third and final instalment in Julie's "The Daughters of Boston" series. Please come over to read the review and say 'hi'!...
Book Review: Short-Straw Bride by Karen Witemeyer
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Short-Straw Bride by Karen Witemeyer Bethany House Publishers, 01 June 2012 No one steps on Archer land. Not if they value their life. But when Meredith Hayes overhears a lethal plot to burn the Archer brothers off...
Book Review: Maggie’s Journey by Lena Nelson Dooley
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Maggie's Journey by Lena Nelson Dooley (McKenna's Daughters, Book 1) Realms, 04 October 2011 Near her eighteenth birthday, Margaret Lenora Caine finds a chest hidden in the attic containing proof that she's...
Book Review: A Wedding Invitation by Alice J. Wisler
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle A Wedding Invitation by Alice J. Wisler Bethany House Publishers, 01 October 2011 After returning home from teaching English at a refugee camp in the Philippines, Samantha Bravencourt enjoys her quiet life...
Book Review: Back to Resolution by Rose Dee
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Back to Resolution by Rose Dee Even Before Publishing, 01 November 2011 Bay Anders is lost. She enjoys every privilege a wealthy upbringing affords, but the void in her soul refuses to be filled. Her mother's dying...
Book Review: Made to Crave by Lysa TerKeurst
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Made to Crave by Lysa TerKeurst Zondervan, 15 December 2010 I've never read any books on losing weight, I've never dieted. I never really believed in dieting, figuring that eating well and indulging every now and then was...
Book Review: Promise Me This By Cathy Gohlke
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Promise Me This by Cathy Gohlke Tyndale House Publishers, 20 January 2012 Michael Dunnagan was never supposed to sail on the Titanic, nor would he have survived if not for the courage of Owen Allen. Determined to...
Book Review: The Mother Road by Jennifer AlLee
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle The Mother Road by Jennifer AlLee Abingdon Press, 01 April 2012 It's unusual for me to read women's fiction - since I'm a romance-devotee. But when I heard about an inspirational fiction book in which the heroine is a...
Book Review: Blue Moon Promise by Colleen Coble
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Blue Moon Promise by Colleen Coble Thomas Nelson, 14 February 2012 Lucy Marsh's worldly resources are running out, but she's fiercely determined to care for her younger brother and sister. When she discovers that...