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Review: Robyn: Family Secrets by Glen R. Stott ★★★★

Robyn by Glen R. Stott, author of Dead Angels and Timpanogos, is the harrowing tale of sexual abuse in a Mormon family. Skipping between past and the present, it is an epic tale about how sexual abuse has affected people over generations, while the perpetrator has gotten away with it for so many years. Robyn acts as a kind of detective of her family, trying to uncover the awful truth about her grandfather, Joshua Godwin. Eventually, the full truth may be revealed.

At first I was left wondering why this book was written. Why the author, as a man […]

The Elder’s Circle by Jessica Schaub

Picking up right where Gateways, Book I of The Elemental Chronicles left off, Victoria believes that she’ll be home tomorrow. After all, she defeated Ona, the mage who killed her father, and essentially saved the world. Or did she?

The Elder’s Circle is the second book in the series by Christian fantasy author Jessica Schaub. Victoria is a Painter, and can paint anything into existence. But she’s been forced to open a dangerous Earth Gateway, and now the powerful and evil mage Ona is missing. In this installment, the story follows Ona’s followers while they attempt to find her. Meanwhile, […]

Cate Baum2019-01-22T04:34:25+02:00December 8th, 2014|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Christian Fiction Book Reviews, Religious Fiction Book Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews|

Review: A Cat Out of Egypt by C. L. Francisco

C. L. Francisco’s, A Cat Out of Egypt, is an imaginative and thoughtful tale about Jesus’ years in Egypt. The narrator is Miw, also called ‘Daughter of Fire’ by her people. And she’s a cat. This novel is the prequel to The Gospel According to Yeshua’s Cat (reviewed here by SPR).

Miw is an Egyptian cat from the temple Bubastis. After she learns that corrupt priests are plotting her death she leaves the temple with a priestess of Bast, named Tikos, and they escape to a Jewish village. Here they meet Yeshua and his family. Miw actually fights and […]

T B Markinson2014-10-29T07:40:22+02:00October 29th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Religious Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Gospel According to Yeshua’s Cat by C.L. Francisco

The Gospel According to Yeshua’s Cat is a Christian fiction story by world religion expert C.L. Francisco.

Mari, a little black cat, travels with Yeshua, tucked inside his robe as he fulfills his destiny as the son of God. Through the eyes of a cat, details of his life and times are elegantly described to the reader for an especially spiritual Mashup Fiction experience.

There is a comparison to the bestselling book, The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber, in which an Aramaic translator finds a lost scroll that turns out to be a controversial testament to Jesus’ life. In that […]

Cate Baum2014-06-03T14:28:45+02:00June 3rd, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Christian Fiction Book Reviews, Religious Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Vision by Galen Snowden & Cathy Newcomb

The young girl looked back and merely nodded. “Mommy, where do monsters live?”

“You mean like Elmo?”

“No, real monsters.”

“Honey, there’re no such thing as real monsters. They’re just make believe.”

“There are,” she insisted. Madi leaned in, spoke in hushed tones. “I just saw one.”

Galen Snowden and Cathy Newcomb introduce an unlikely heroine named Madrigal, Madi for short, in their paranormal novel Vision. She’s not a typical woman in her early twenties. She’s shy, doesn’t have a lot of friends, and doesn’t have a family around. She helps run an all-female indie record label with her […]

T B Markinson2014-05-09T21:49:38+02:00September 13th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Christian Fiction Book Reviews, Paranormal Book Reviews, Religious Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Book of 1 Ariel by Aaron Quincy

“I can be the greatest angel of all-time. It could happen.”

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be an angel? Aaron Quincy’s novel, The Book of 1 Ariel introduces heaven’s newest angel. When Ariel arrives in heaven she learns that she is to train to become an angel. Her first few days in heaven and on the job are difficult. Ariel, who wants to be the best angel ever, can’t remember her life on earth. Her own past, or lack of remembering her past, haunts her. When she is assigned to watch over Natalie, an eight-year-old, her […]

T B Markinson2012-06-08T12:59:35+02:00June 8th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Religious Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Michael’s Reward by Mario Bernheim

Exceptional doesn’t even closely describe Michael’s Reward. In this thought-provoking, memorable book we meet Michael Whiley, God, and Lucifer. It’s a modern retelling of the Book of Job.

Michael has every material possession possible – a beautiful home, a boat, a lucrative job where he makes millions with bonuses every year, and a wonderful family. Can his faith continue if he loses all this opulence?

God thinks so, and He does not doubt Michael’s loss of faith if all his worldly possessions disappear.

Lucifer has a different opinion from God, but God gives him the go ahead to test […]

Silver's Reviews2014-05-09T21:52:00+02:00March 1st, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Christian Fiction Book Reviews, Religious Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Maji by L.M. Meier

Maji, The Untold Adventure of the Men of the East is a fictionalized tale which will remind many readers of the Christian story of the three wise men seeking out Jesus in Bethlehem. However, the story is much more than a quaint retelling of this treasured event. Instead, it is a look behind the scenes at not only the journey of the three wise men, but also a coming of age tale about Zebedeo, a young Maji in training who accompanies the men on their journey. It is Zebedeo who drives the plot of the story as he must make […]