BOOK REVIEW | Katy’s New World
Katy Lambright is starting a new chapter in her life. A chapter usually not a part of a young Old Order Mennonite girl, but one started with permission from the church. She is going to attend public high school. Katy has an inquisitive mind, with a great eagerness to learn more than she learned in [...]
BOOK REVIEW | False Pretenses
Zoe B’s is a happening brasserie in Cajun country, in the town of Les Barbes. Zoe Broussard and her husband Pierce, have worked hard and have established a successful business, but Zoe realizes that her life is built upon deception, that will soon be revealed when she starts receiving notes that she knows will lead [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Leaving Lancaster
Esther Gingerich and Samuel Fisher left home in their Rumspringa, never to return together. Samuel lost his conscientious objector status by not being at home with his Amish family, and was drafted into the Vietnam War to never return. And Esther was ashamed that she had caused Samuel’s death by convincing him to leave. Now [...]
BOOK REVIEW | When Rain Falls
Victory Gospel Series Book 1 Tyora Moody 2012 Urban Christian/ Kensington Fiction/Suspense Candace Johnson, has lost a lot, her momma, her husband and now two years after her husband, here comes another devastating loss.Her best friend Pamela was found murdered. Candace is not sure she can handle this. Her bitterness is overtaking her. She feels [...]
BOOK REVIEW | An Amish Family Reunion
Phoebe Miller is a quiet shy, introverted young woman whose main interest is drawing. She isn’t interested in home skills, nothing but drawing. She is a bit of a dreamer, but she is so shy, she doesn’t share those dreams with anyone. At nearly eighteen, she knows that she needs to begin growing up, after [...]
BOOK REVIEW | A Marriage for Meghan
The Wayne County Series Mary Ellis 2011 Harvest House Publishers Fiction/Contemporary/Amish Meghan Yost has a dream, she wanted to be a school teacher and lead kinner into learning. However, her own father didn’t seem to believe in her dream. And neither did Jacob, her “sort of boyfriend.” In fact it seemed that no one but [...]
BOOK REVIEW | The Measure of Katie Calloway
The Civil War was hard on many people, but even harder on a young woman from the north married into a Georgian family. It didn’t take long to realize that the handsome young man from West Point, who was her brother’s friend, had a mean streak. More than a mean streak he was downright [...]
BOOK REVIEW | A Necessary Deception
A Necessary Deception by Laurie Alice Eakes 2011 Revell Set in 1812, in England, young widow Lydia Gale, helps a prisoner who showed her a kindness, only to discover that now she is being blackmailed into helping the French spy on her nation. Angry at being deceived, all she is interested in to doing, is [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Hello Hollywood
Hello Hollywood by Janice Thompson Oh my, what a book, it was so cute, I kept thinking it should be called My Big Greek Family! Athena, head writer for the popular sitcom Stars Collide, which stars her best friend Kat (we met her in book one in this series Stars Collide). Athena is worried she [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Deadly Pursuit
Deadly Pursuit by Irene Hannon Intense does not even begin to describe this book. Of all the Irene Hannon books I have read, this one is the most intense, nail biter I have ever read! It gripped me and wouldn’t let go. A fiercely gripping book, I cried tears in the hard places, I felt [...]
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