Book Reviews
Book Review: Over the Edge by Mary Connealy
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Over the Edge by Mary Connealy Bethany House, 01 August 2012 Seth Kincaid survived a fire in a cave, but he's never been the same. He was always a reckless youth, but now he's gone over the edge. He ran off to the Civil...
Book Review: Kicking Eternity by Ann Lee Miller
Available @ Amazon | Kindle Kicking Eternity by Ann Lee Miller CreateSpace, 28 June 2012 Stuck in sleepy New Smyrna Beach one last summer, Raine socks away her camp pay checks, worries about her druggy brother, and ignores trouble: Cal Koomer. She's a plane ticket...
Guest Book Review by Lucy Morgan-Jones: Homegrown Dandelions by Judith Bronte
Homegrown Dandelions by Judith Bronte Review by Lucy Morgan-Jones Plot Summary Love can thrive in the most ordinary places.... After a tragic day years ago, Beth Carter was left to pick up the pieces and move on with her life. But she hasn't. She's shut herself to the...
Book Review: Beyond Resolution by Rose Dee
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Beyond Resolution by Rose Dee Even Before Publishing, 01 April 2012 Samara lives a life filled with fear. After being discarded and beaten by her drug dealing boyfriend, she takes one easy out after another. Her choices...
Book Review: Mary’s Blessing by Lena Nelson Dooley
Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Mary's Blessing by Lena Nelson Dooley (McKenna's Daughters, Book 2) Realms, 15 May 2012 When her mother dies, Mary Lenora must grow up quickly to take care of her brothers and sisters. Can love help her to shoulder...
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...
Book Review: Critical Care by Candace Calvert
Mercy Hospital #1: Critical Care by Candace Calvert Tyndale House Publishers, June 3, 2009 After her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER. She's determined to make a fresh start???new hospital, new career in nursing...
Book Review: Jennifer: An O’Malley Love Story by Dee Henderson
Jennifer: An O'Malley Love Story by Dee Henderson Bethany House Publishers, May 1, 2013 Eagerly Awaited Novella from Dee Henderson It's a summer of change for Jennifer O'Malley. The busy physician has a pediatrics practice in Dallas, and meeting Tom Peterson, and...
Book Review: Mine is the Night by Liz Curtis Higgs
Mine is the Night by Liz Curtis Higgs Waterbrook Press, 15 March 2011 SHE LOST EVERYTHING SHE LOVED. HE HAD EVERYTHING SHE NEEDED. BUT COULD SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO TRUST HIM? Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr...
Book Review: Indivisible by Kristen Heitzmann
Indivisible by Kristen Heitzmann WaterBrook Press, May 4, 2010 An inseparable bond. An insatiable force. Battling his own personal demons, Police Chief Jonah Westfall knows the dark side of life and has committed himself to eradicating it. When a pair of raccoons are...
Book Review: Always the Baker, Finally the Bride by Sandra D. Bricker
Always the Baker, Finally the Bride by Sandra D. Bricker Abingdon Press, 1st April 2013 In Always the Baker, Never the Bride, readers fell in love with Emma Rae and Jackson, and they’ve gotten more acquainted with them in the two books that followed. But now it’s...
Book Review: The Healer By Dee Henderson
The Healer by Dee Henderson Tyndale House Publishers, October 14, 2005 A flood brings them together... Rachel O'Malley is a trauma psychologist who works disasters for the Red Cross; her specialty is helping children. Captain Cole Parker has spent the last year...
Book Review: In Search of Eden by Linda Nichols
In Search of Eden by Linda Nichols Bethany House Publishers, 1st February 2007 A girl who has never been able to settle down, Miranda begins various adventures, but whenever reality begins to tarnish her dreams, she gives up. As she approaches her thirtieth birthday,...
Book Review: Safe in His Arms by Colleen Coble
Safe in His Arms by Colleen Coble Thomas Nelson, January 29, 2013 Born and raised on sprawling Texas land, Margaret O’Brien prides herself on her competence as a rancher. But her father believes she’s made for more than just dawn-to-dusk work. He wants her to have the...
Book Review: Shattered by Dani Pettrey
Shattered by Dani Pettrey Bethany House Publishers, February 1, 2013 Piper McKenna couldn't be more thrilled that her prodigal brother, Reef, has returned to Yancey, Alaska, after five years. But her happiness is short-lived when Reef appears at her house covered in...
Book Review: Secretly Smitten
Secretly Smitten by Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, Diann Hunt and Denise Hunter Thomas Nelson, January 8, 2013 Summer, fall, winter, spring—Smitten, Vermont, is the place for love . . . and mystery! There’s a secret in Grandma Rose’s attic—a forgotten set of dog...