Category: Contemporary Fiction

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 | Remembering You

Title: REMEMBERING YOU Author: Tricia Goyer Publisher: Guideposts November 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8249-4812-2 Genre: Inspirational/contemporary/general Ava Ellington has just broken up with her boyfriend, Jay, and her job is quickly going south. Fearing she’ll be fired, Ava promises to come up with a news story that people will want to see, not turn the channel. But [...]

BOOK REVIEW | The Baker’s Wife

Title: THE BAKER’S WIFE Author: Erin Healy Publisher: Thomas Nelson October 2011 ISBN: 978-1-59554-752-1 Genre: Inspirational/suspense Audrey was the pastor’s wife. But then false accusations took away her husband’s career, and suddenly their hobby had become their life and she was now the baker’s wife. Audrey is driving the car to the bakery when her [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Tea for Two

Tea for Two is the second book in the “Tea with Millicent” series, but I didn’t feel the lack of not having read book one. Tina Milano is a Christian counselor in town, and she is a frequent customer of Milly’s tea shop, and the ladies are good friends. When a man catches her eye, [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Dining with Joy

Dining with Joy by Rachel Hauck What do you do with a cooking show host that can’t cook? You cover it up, apparently. Because Joy’s the host of her own show and she can not seem to make any edible food. Her father’s legacy and cooking show empire is at stake, so she and her [...]

BOOK REVIEW | A Cowboy’s Touch

Abigail is on a vacation/leave of absence, a forced one. Her health is suffering, high blood pressure is making her sick. Her mother has insisted she take off three months and sends her to Montana to check on her Aunt Lucy. What her mother doesn’t tell Abigail is that the magazine they both work for [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Simply Sara

Hillary Manton Lodge 2010 Harvest House Publishers Fiction/Amish/Contemporary Reviewed by Cindy Loven Another great book from Hillary Manton Lodge, I am loving her writing!  Amish with a twist, or perhaps Amish story told backward could be how you would describe Hillary’s books.  They are different than the usual Amish story, but they are stories that [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Sarah’s Christmas Miracle

Mary Ellis Harvest House Publishers 2010 Fiction/Amish Reviewed by Cindy Loven Sarah Beachy has a good life, she is nineteen, and has not joined the church yet. And while she has not had the typical rumschpringe, she just has not been ready to commit to the church yet. She knows that joining the church will [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Winter’s Awakening

Winter’s Awakening by Shelley Shepard Gray My rating: 4 of 5 stars Honestly Shelley Shepard Gray is probably my favorite Amish Fiction author of the current Amish Fiction craze. Her reflections into the lives that interact and are affected by the Ohio Amish are fresh and refreshing. I enjoyed her previous Sisters of the Heart [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Spring’s Renewal

SPRING’S RENEWAL Author: Shelley Shepard Gray Publisher: Avon Inspire April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-185236-7 Genre: Inspirational/Amish Clara is the local Amish school teacher. When Clara was five-years-old, she was severely burned in a kitchen fire, and now her mother tells her that no one will have Clara since she is deformed. Clara is resigned to staying [...]