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Courting Cate by Gould
In Paradise, Pennsylvania, Cate Miller is known more for her sharp tongue and fiery temper than her striking appearance. Her sweet and flirty sister, Betsy, on the other hand, seems to have attracted most of the bachelors in Lancaster County!
Courting Cate
by Leslie Gould
Bethany House
November 2012
But the sisters’ wealthy father has made one hard-and-fast rule: older Cate must marry first, before younger Betsy can even start courting. Unfortunately, untamable Cate has driven away every suitor-until Pete Treger comes to town, that is.
Prodded by the men of the area, Pete turns his attention to winning Cate’s hand. But is his interest true or is there a scheme at play?
My Thoughts: It’s easy to tell by my book reviews that I like Amish Fiction. This is the first book that I have read by Leslie Gould and I wasn’t disappointed.
Cate figures that she will be an old maid, since she doesn’t think anyone could put up with her temper. Having raised her younger sister Betsy since birth and being in charge of her father’s business office has made Cate fairly independent.
When Betsy starts courting, their father issues an edict: Betsy cannot get married or court until Cate does. At the same time as the declaration, Pete, an Amish man from New York, comes to Lancaster County, and begins to court Cate. She, however, is immediately suspicious.
Anyone who has read the Shakespeare play, or even seen some of the numerous movie, television, and book adaptations (including the Heath Ledger classic 10 Things I Hate About You) will be able to guess how the story goes. However, it’s still a wonderful book, and I couldn’t put it down. This is a great story with many twists and turns. Why did Pete leave his family? Will Pete and Cate get together? Can the fiery Cate actually be tamed?
Amish fiction fans will recognize Gould from the Women of Lancaster County series she co-wrote with Mindy Starns Clark, but this book showcases Gould as an Amish author on her own. Courting Cate is the beginning of the Courtships of Lancaster County series, and if the rest of the series is as good as this title, I have a feeling it will be in high demand.
Cate was a lot of fun and added a lot of personality to this story. All the characters felt real and very likable. This is somewhat of a twist on your Amish Fiction which I find refreshing. You still see Cate’s grace and dignity and her relationship with her Savoir shine through in all situations.
Thanks for a well written book with delightful characters. I look forward to reading more in this series and by the author.
ReneeK is a sweet tea addicted mamma who loves to cuddle up to a good book. She blogs at Little Homeschool on the Praire and writes about family, homeschooling, having a special needs child, and about whatever else tickles her fancy.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
The Intercept by Wolf
WOW WOW WOW! This is the best nail-biting, page-turning, twisty suspense book I have ever read. It will literally take your breath away. The story will keep you glued to your chair with all the lights on and wondering just what will happen next.
The Intercept
Dick Wolf
William Morrow
December 2012
Bassam Shah has arrived in the Big Apple from Denver. Supposedly he came to check on the family’s coffee cart. In lower Manhattan Detective Jeremy Fisk arrived late at the Joint Terrorism Task Force Meeting. Bin Laden is staying at the home of Arshad Khan. Laden has visitors. They are discussing their next attack on the United States – especially New York City. Laden is angry. Once again we have foiled their attempt to bomb the subway. Bin laden states – “we must direct our energy toward a target of such powerful symbolic importance to the Americans that its destruction will resonate for generations.”
Scandinavian Flight 903 is approaching the Boston Airport from Sweden. Everything is going fine until suddenly one of the passengers- a Yemeni – tackles Flight Attendant Maggie – holding a knife to her throat. He has a bomb and is threatening to detonate it if he is not allowed in the cockpit. Several passengers rush him and wrestle him to the floor. The plane is re-routed to Bangor international Airport where the terrorist is taken into custody. They become heroes and are dubbed “the six”. Since the terrorist didn’t really have a bomb. Detective Fisk is a little confused. Was this just a trick and something bigger is going down?
Baada Bin-Hezam is in town. He is another on the terrorist list. In a Manhattan apartment, Aminah Bin Mohammed, an American woman turned Muslin, completes her final task. She is just waiting for a phone call. What is going down? One moment of delicious anticipation involves Bin-Hezan’s slow descent to the street. As he steps out of the building an army of cops converge on him. Another makes the decision to let someone in her hotel room late at night, then all hell breaks loose. A third man is planning something so big it will rock the world to its core.
Will Fisk and his crew discover the real plot in time to prevent another 911 incident in the Big Apple? How has Bin Laden been getting his messaged to Al-Qaeda operatives? Just who or what is the real target. The 4th of July celebration is in two days. The new tower at Ground Zero is to be dedicated with the past and present presidents in attendance. Could this be their target? Just how many terrorist are involved?
Dick Wolf is the architect of the most successful and long-running show in television history – NBC’s Law & Order. This is his literary debut and the first in a series featuring NYPD detective Jeremy Fisk.
I can’t recommend this book too highly. There are genuine surprises, moments of sheer panic, and suspense/terror that will take your breath away. I loved it and can’t wait for Wolf’s next novel to be published.
Mary Asher, the Golden Reviewer, is an 80 year old avid reader reviews the newest in Christian fiction and non-fiction with a sprinkle of the secular on top..
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
Author Interview: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
After reading When the Blue Shift Comes by Silverberg and Zinos-Amaro I felt I had to interview newcomer Alvaro Zinos-Amaro. I had a couple questions about the content of the book, but mostly I wanted an inside look at what it was like to finish a story for someone else, especially when that someone is one of the biggest names in all of fiction! Fortunately, he was generous enough to answer a few of my questions:
[Scott Asher] Congratulations on your first published book! It seems to me that this was a frakkin hard way to get started – finishing a book that Grandmaster Robert Silverberg (RS) admits he couldn’t! What was it like finishing someone else’s story instead of writing your own from start to finish? Did you feel any additional pressure because you were writing a conclusion to a story by someone whose work you admire?
[AZA] Thank you! This was a rare opportunity, and I couldn’t pass on it. I’m incredibly grateful to RS, Mike Resnick, and Shahid Mahmud for the chance to participate. In finishing someone else’s story, there were what I chose to think of as several advantages. I had protagonists, I had a universe, and I had some sense of what was possible and was impossible in that universe. It was also pretty easy to identify plot elements that needed resolution. And there was the issue of style; a heightened, flamboyant, self-aware voice I knew I needed to maintain. I looked on these constraints as helpful rather than limiting. I approached the project as a series of technical challenges to be overcome, and kept subdividing these tasks into smaller and smaller units until they seemed doable. I created a very detailed outline before I wrote a word of the story, and then it was 1,000 words of first draft on Monday, revise the fourth scene on Tuesday, that sort of thing. Once it was all done and I had mailed it to RS, I did feel trepidation. This is ROBERT S-I-L-V-E-R-B-E-R-G, y’a know? But he replied quickly and reassuringly, praising my work. I got the giggles and abandoned my diet of liquids and papaya seeds.
[SA] What did you have to work with from RS?
[AZA] I received the novella “The Song of Last Things” in pretty much the form it was eventually published, and a sticky note that said “Good luck, kid. Now save the universe.” (That last part isn’t true.) RS had written more of the story, and part of an outline, but he elected not to share these things with me before I wrote my sequel, out of concern that it might lead me in unprofitable directions. I’m thankful that he didn’t, though it was fun to compare notes afterward.
[SA] About the gap between inception and completion: did it seem to you that Robert Silverberg was using science in his book that was dated to 1987, like a universe that is eternal that expands and contracts eternally as he seemed to be referring to? Did you feel like you had to bring it up to our current model of expanding finite universe but somehow remain faithful to the original? Maybe I read too much into it.
[Alvaro Zinos-Amaro] I didn’t think of it that way, but rather as just one more given of our story. Robert Silverberg introduced certain problems in his novella – the voracious anomaly causing a huge collapse in spacetime being an important one, but by no means the only one – and I saw it as my task to resolve them in a way that would be both consistent with what had come before, but also as unexpected as possible.
[SA] Reading RS’s novella I started to worry that he spent so much time on the premise that he wouldn’t leave you enough time to resolve everything. RS spent quite a bit of time reiterating the vast difference between the immortals’ time in the story and ours, the differences between planets and civilizations and cultures. By contrast, it seemed like you spent very little time on these topics. Was this because he left so much to resolve in so little space or something else?
[AZA] One of the things I had going in my favor was that key world-building had been done for me, and this included setting the story in an unimaginably distant future, as you point out. On occasion I made use of certain asides to highlight that sense of immense history (like events from the Fourth Mandala, for example, and how Earth historians from the Ninth Mandala view them) and other technological abilities, but I didn’t feel like these aspects needed much elaboration.
[SA] What book(s) or author(s) influenced you, if any, in writing this story?
[AZA] RS, of course (not just this novella, but many previous works); Robert Sheckley; Cordwainer Smith; Frederick Pohl; Philip K. Dick; and others. I planted some “easter eggs” in titles and descriptive phrases that reference these writers and their works, and that no-one will ever pick up on.
[SA] What should the reader take away from the completed story?
[AZA] Probably six or seven semicolons, for I may have used too many.
[SA] What’s next?
[AZA] More short fiction, including a collaboration; a few reviews, interviews, possibly an article. I know I have a dental appointment coming up soon. And in 2013 I will tackle my first novel, and we’ll see if it wants to tackle me back.
Catwoman Vol. 1 by Winick and March
DC’s New 52 reboots have been very hit and miss (look at the great Batman and mediocre Teen Titans and the absolutely terrible Batwoman for examples). But this title benefits from the reboot more than most giving new readers (like me) an easy starting point and (importantly) a character that meshes well with the movie version from the Dark Knight Rises.
Catwoman
Vol. 1: The Game
Written by Judd Winick
Art by Guillem March
DC Comics
May 2012
Selena is very much the same kind of character: a cat burglar who wears a tight black leather suit that is easily entranced by all that glitters and collects expensive prizes. We also get the mostly hinted at relationship with Batman. What changed though is how she is handled. This is a gritty, action packed, violent series now with intense, tearing-their-clothes-(but-not-masks)-off sex scenes. The writer takes Catwoman down a very cinematic road and it works.
This collection includes issues 1-6 and covers an introduction to the character, a very graphic introduction to her sexual relationship with Batman, and a story arch about how Catwoman stole from the wrong mobsters. (Or so they think.) How Catwoman gets out of the situation (no spoiler here, right? Or did you expect her to die in the first 6 issues?) holds your attention, but the real story is in how she interacts with those around her. I’d like to see more of how her personality impacts her and more on consequences of her addictions (instead of the last second salvation offered in so many storylines.)
The one problem I have with this book is the rating (an issue that I have with several DC rated books). It just shouldn’t be rated Teen+ and the ratings should be much clearer for parents. This is not to say that I think the sexual or violent elements should not be in the books. Not at all! I believe that the violence (blood, death, murders) and sex scenes between Batman and Catwoman (doesn’t show nudity, but near nudity plus bra) actually fit well with the story. These can be appropriate tools in storytelling, but the content in this book would be rated closer to R if it were in the theater and should be rated clearer for parents. DC does rate this T+ instead of simply T, which they say means, “Appropriate for readers age 16 and older. May contain moderate violence, mild profanity, graphic imagery and/or suggestive themes.” While I think it is closer to M for Mature, “Appropriate for readers age 18 and older. May contain intense violence, extensive profanity, nudity, sexual themes and other content suitable only for older readers” because there are clear sexual themes and scenes, the problem remains that it is difficult to know what to expect in a book with the hodge-podge ratings systems that each publisher makes up and determines on their own.
Overall, the story is gritty and interesting. The art is fabulous with expressive characters (and an especially well drawn Selena, who has a ton of facial expressions). This is one of my favorites from the DC relaunch.
Scott Asher is the Editor-in-Chief of BookGateway.com. His personal blog is AshertopiA – a land flowing with milk and honey… and a lot of sticky people where he turns real life into stupid cartoons, writes on Christianity, Zombies, and whatever else he wants and posts Bible studies from his classes at church.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
The Memory Jar by Goyer
Sarah Shelter has lived in West Kootenai for the last ten years and wonders if she will ever fall in love. Since the tragic death of her best friend, Patty. She carries a lot of guilt because of her tragic accident. She holds her feeling inside.
The Memory Jar
Seven Brides for Seven Bachelors #1
By Tricia Goyer
Zondervan
October 2012
Sarah loves to bake cupcakes and would love to own her own bakery someday. She discovers that she has a talent that God created in her that is different than most in her Amish community. She finds herself at odds with most in the Amish community that believe that Sarah is going too far in her creativity and many find it prideful, but Sarah sees things differently.
Jathan Schrock came to hunt and try to figure out his future with his responsibilities that are expected of him from his family back home in Berlin, Ohio. What he wasn’t planning on was Sarah Shelter to captivate him.
My thoughts: Tricia Goyer did an amazing job with this story. Her characters were deep, heart touching and very likable. I enjoyed how different this story is from most Amish novels. It was very refreshing. I loved that I didn’t know what would happen next. The conclusion of the story was fun and nothing like I expected.
The Memory Jar is a captivating story that kept me wondering it was going to end. I hope to see these characters in another one of the author’s novels.
ReneeK is a sweet tea addicted mamma who loves to cuddle up to a good book. She blogs at Little Homeschool on the Praire and writes about family, homeschooling, having a special needs child, and about whatever else tickles her fancy.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
Sweet Hell on Fire by Lunsford
Let me begin by saying, Sara Lunsford’s Sweet Hell on Fire: A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. In her writing debut Lunsford details a year long account of her role as female officer in the male prison system and her dangerous decline into alcoholism. A gritty depiction, Sweet Hell on Fire leaves little to the imagination chronicling how her violent exchanges with inmates seem to seep into her daily life and behavior.
Sweet Hell on Fire
A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In
By Sara Lunsford
Sourcebooks
November 2012
Sara Lunsford notes in the foreword that when she originally scripted her memoir it spoke only of her life on the job, leaving out personal details that would inevitably reveal any mistakes or shortcomings. As a reader I am so thankful that she decided to re-evaluate this decision. By disclosing her imperfections she was able to make it not only a collection of frightening battles of bravado between herself and the inmates, but instead a profound, hear wrenching account of her personal evolution. I do feel, however, that there are certainly times where Lunsford’s writing style should have been a bit more descriptive, focusing less on profanities and more on prose.
Overall, for a first time reviewer I am certainly satisfied with my decision to read such a compelling story written by such an honest author.
Lindsay Green is a Midwest gal spending her twenties in South. While she doesn’t read as often as she should thanks to Netflix, she mostly enjoys memoirs and all types of fiction. Most of her time is spent with friends playing board games or discussing the best, new television series.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
Iron: or, The War After by Vidaurri
The war is over. Or is it? For some it won’t ever be over. One of these is the rabbit Hardin who steals secret information and sets in motion events that could change everything.
Iron: Or, The War After
by Shane-Michael Vidaurri
Archaia
December 2012
Hardin takes the stolen intel to a group of confederates with a plan to destroy a key transportation hub. But when the Regime comes looking for Hardin a stray bullet changes everything leaving the Resistance in disarray. It’s difficult to tell too much more of the story without spoilers, but it is not too much to say that the bullet and what comes next will reverberate from the youngest to the most powerful in both the Regime and the Resistance.
The story is interesting however the reader is thrust into the action without enough background to fully understand the story and I found myself floundering trying to figure out who was who and even who was the good guy. By default I tend to consider resistance fighters as the oppressed morally right side, but here, without details about the war that already happened, it’s very difficult to come to that conclusion. Sure there are some in the Regime that are clearly evil. But is Harden’s act even remotely less evil?
The art is stylish and moody for the subject matter, but the characters are wooden and mostly inexpresive. I was disappointed not because the art is bad, but because it’s so dispassionate that I couldn’t muster up enough emotion to care about any of the characters or really how things turned out. That constitutes failure in my book.
As a fan on Archaia, a publisher that is known for high quality graphic novels, I come into each new book with fairly high expectations. In the case of this book, my expectations may have proven too high. This is a bland and often confusion story with artwork that fails to inspire.
Scott Asher is the Editor-in-Chief of BookGateway.com. His personal blog is AshertopiA – a land flowing with milk and honey… and a lot of sticky people where he turns real life into stupid cartoons, writes on Christianity, Zombies, and whatever else he wants and posts Bible studies from his classes at church.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
Teen Titans Vol. 1 by Lobdel, Booth and Rapmund
This is not your T-E-E-N T-I-T-A-N-S, Teen Titans. In fact, it isn’t even the Teen Titans from pre- New 52. Of the New 52 books, this is one of the most changed. And it’s not all for the good.
Teen Titans
Vol. 1: It’s Our Right to Fight
written by Scott Lobdel
art by Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund
DC Comics
September 2012
This iteration of the Titans is lead by Tim Drake, Batman’s former sidekick, as Red Robin. Starting with issue 1 we find Red Robin immediately and without explanation fighting against an international organization called Project N.O.W.H.E.R.E. that seems to be seeking out super-powered young people to capture and turn to their side or to kill them.
Red Robin is joined by Wonder Girl, a thief with powers derived from stolen artifacts, Kid Flash, a young Flash with an unclear history, and a couple others as the story goes on (and who I don’t want to spoil the story arch) working towards finding other super-powered teens and saving them from N.O.W.H.E.R.E.. And one major obstacle stands in their way: Superboy.
For fans of the Teen Titans going all the way back to the late 1980s, like myself, I find the switch to new characters tough to swallow. I’m especially troubled by where some of the characters went (see Starfire in Red Hood and the Outlaws, for instance). Cyborg as a member of Justice League is a good fit, but the move leaves very little to work with here. But as jarring as the switch is, Lobdel does a serviceable job bring a compelling story even though not historically an actual Teen Titans story.
The artwork is on par with the other New 52 titles, which means frankly that it looks like all the others. In fact, I am hard pressed to see a big difference between most of the artists at DC who all seem to have graduated from the Jim Lee school of art – top heavy, gravity defying women and strong fisted, glaring men on huge full panel or two page spreads – although there are less random lines. It’s well done and colored well, but it doesn’t stand out.
Teen Titans volume 1 is just another book in DCs 52 that doesn’t do much to stand out.
Scott Asher is the Editor-in-Chief of BookGateway.com. His personal blog is AshertopiA – a land flowing with milk and honey… and a lot of sticky people where he turns real life into stupid cartoons, writes on Christianity, Zombies, and whatever else he wants and posts Bible studies from his classes at church.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
When the Blue Shift Comes by Silverberg and Zinos-Amaro
The Stellar Guild series of books by Phoenix Pick (Arc Manor) teams up a well known, best selling author with their choice of an up and coming, lesser known author to complete a novelette. With authors like Mercedes Lackey and Keven J. Anderson and famed editor Mike Resnick, Locus All-Time Award winner and 5 time Hugo winner this series is loaded with talent. Add Robert Silverberg – a Grand Master of Science Fiction – and expectations soar through the roof, into the heavens, and on to galaxies far, far away.
When the Blue Shift Comes
by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Phoenix Pick
Novemeber 2012
For this book, Silverberg brought to the table an unfinished work from nearly 30 years ago that he had started and admitted that he wasn’t sure how to end. Silverberg chose new comer Alvaro Zinos-Amaro to finish what he could not and wrap up an incredibly ambitious story in just a novella’s length. Congrats on your first published work Zinos-Amaro. No pressure.
The story is about a universe vastly (I mean vastly) older than our own where beings live out near-immortal lives. Hanosz Prime, our protagonist, is a near-immortal who, bored with his exceedingly long life of ruling his own planet, decides to travel to Earth, the only place in the universe where beings are completely immortal.
About this same time, an anomaly in space starts to spread or cause the universe to contract and Earth is on a collision course with destruction. But there is a prophecy about a savior that may or may not point to Hanosz Prime. As the universe contracts at an accerating pace, Hanosz Prime travels towards the anomoly’s center point where the answers and questions reside.
And “Cut!”
Silverberg sets up the premise above for the complete duration of his novella. In fact, if there is anything to say about his novella it is to say that it is a premise without a plot. To further complicate matters, Silverberg writes in an exceptionally ackward style with an outlandish amount of asides (especially when discussing time and how vastly, incredibly far away from the readers this story takes place.) With these hurdles in mind, Zinos-Amaro deftly navigates the premise, handles the characters in ways that Silverberg may have been surprised to see (the narrator is a great example), and brings to a satisfactory conclusion this 30 year old idea.
To give away what Zinos-Amaro does with the story is to ruin it as his novella is the only part of the story with surprises, action and suspense. Sure Silverberg’s universe is contracting / anomaly expanding and the beings live for a very long time and can change shape, but who cares? Only when Zinos-Amaro gets his hands on the story does it actually go somewhere. (And somewhere satisfying.)
I love Silverberg’s works. Some stand the test of time among the greatest science fiction of all time. But this novella was not one of those. Zinos-Amaro did what he could with the premise and showed at the very minimum that he is an extremely talented writer who seemlessly weaves science fact and humor into his writing. I can’t wait to see what he writes when he isn’t hampered with the assignment to follow-up and conclude another author’s unfinished work.
Overall, this book is a short, interesting read but as far as stories go it wasn’t the best. If you are looking for technical writing and literary style this book positively overflows with excellent examples. Solid achievement, ok story.
For more: See my interview with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro.
Scott Asher is the Editor-in-Chief of BookGateway.com. His personal blog is AshertopiA – a land flowing with milk and honey… and a lot of sticky people where he turns real life into stupid cartoons, writes on Christianity, Zombies, and whatever else he wants and posts Bible studies from his classes at church.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
The Road to Woodbury by Kirkman and Bonansinga
The second book in the Walking Dead universe doesn’t start off where we finished the first book, The Ruse of the Governor, instead focusing on a completely different and new group of survivors who have banded together in a huge tent city. If you’re thinking that tents are a terrible way to hold off zombies you’d be correct.
The Road to Woodbury
The Walking Dead
By Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga
Read by Fred Berman
Thomas Dunne Books / Macmillan Audio
October 2012
The story this time focuses on Lily Caul, a young strawberry blonde, freckled girl overcome with grief over losing her father and with certainty that the tent city won’t last. (It doesn’t; but you knew that.) As she moves on from place to place with her small group of survivors she finds herself at the gates of Woodbury, home of the infamous Governor, Philip Blake.
She and her friends find that civilization isn’t all that civilized and when some of her companions end up dead she crosses over from victim to aggressor and decided to facilitate a regime change in Woodbury.
This, the second book in the planned trilogy, doesn’t add as much to the world as the Rise of the Governor did and doesn’t flesh out the characters in this story arch as well either. Not as much happens in this book and not as much character development takes place. And some things don’t make a lot of sense. Why did Lily decide to attack the Governor when he wasn’t directly tied (from her perspective) to her friend’s deaths? I can’t go into more details on this trail without giving away spoilers. But this isn’t the only plot point that seemed to be forced on the reader, instead of naturally developing.
Also, after reading both books back to back it is painfully clear that the authors have only a few ways to describe things (or everyone wears the same lumberjack coats, chambray shirts and everyone hides behind cyclone fences, for a few examples.) I’d like to see some more diversity in description. And character! (Lily is almost the same character as Brian Blake was in the first book).
An interesting addition that doesn’t move the story forward much. I enjoyed it, though, and am looking forward to the conclusion.
Scott Asher is the Editor-in-Chief of BookGateway.com. His personal blog is AshertopiA – a land flowing with milk and honey… and a lot of sticky people where he turns real life into stupid cartoons, writes on Christianity, Zombies, and whatever else he wants and posts Bible studies from his classes at church.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
The Breath of Dawn by Heitzmann
Wow, another amazing story by Kristen Heitzmann. I requested the book because of the author and the other books I have read of hers. I was surprised that Noelle, and Rick and Morgan Spencer from,” A Rush of Wings” and “Still of the Night” are characters in this story.
The Breath of Dawn
by Kristen Heitzmann
Bethany House
November 2012
I like how the characters grew in their faith. It gave you enough history of the characters to know what the other two previous books are about without making it drawn out. Kristen does it and this story is just as good if not better than her other novels. You do not need to read those novels to enjoy this one. I promise this is a stand-alone novel, but it will make you want to read those two novels.
This was an amazing well written novel, with such endearing characters. I felt like I was right there in the middle of everything. I loved Quinn Reilly character. Her faith and courage are inspiring. This book is a real page turner that will inspire you and have you staying up late to finish it. If you like suspense then this is a wonderful read.
Reading about Morgan and knowing his history from the other stories is fun. He is so real and seeing how his relationship developed with the Savior is encouraging. Morgan is a fun character in this novel. This book is a reminder that Jesus never leaves or forsakes us. Thanks Kristen for inspiring and intriguing me.
ReneeK is a sweet tea addicted mamma who loves to cuddle up to a good book. She blogs at Little Homeschool on the Praire and writes about family, homeschooling, having a special needs child, and about whatever else tickles her fancy.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
Escape to the Hiding Place by Hering and Younger
World War II has come to Holland. Patrick and Beth find themselves working with the Dutch Resistance to smuggle a Jewish baby back to her mother who is hiding in the home of Corrie Ten Boom in Haarlem, Holland.
Escape to the Hiding Place
The Imagination Station #9
By Marianne Hering and Marshall Younger
Tyndale House / Focus
September 2012
They take the baby by bicycle into the town trying to beat curfew. Avoiding the attention of German Nazi soldiers is proven harder the closer they get to the hiding place. The soldiers are everywhere and keeping the baby hidden and quiet is not an easy task.
Patrick and Beth see the sacrifice and bravery of those who are willing to lay down their own lives to help the Jewish people.
This is another wonderful book by the creators of Adventures in Odyssey. You will learn some history in these action packed stories.
ReneeK is a sweet tea addicted mamma who loves to cuddle up to a good book. She blogs at Little Homeschool on the Praire and writes about family, homeschooling, having a special needs child, and about whatever else tickles her fancy.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
