So you all know about Lorehaven, right? Great. I began writing reviews for Lorehaven about two years ago. Lorehaven reviews are most often short, no more than 150 words, and their purpose is to help you know whether the book in question is the sort of thing you would like. Whether it is the sort…
Tag: fantasy
One Conception From Another
The Bible makes repeated mention of magic and witches, usually in unsparing terms. We know well the scriptural opprobrium against witches; we are in danger of forgetting the scriptural idea of witches. We all have an idea of what a witch is, but the idea is almost unavoidably an amalgam. We piece it together of…
Grand Finale Blitz: Through the White Wood
On Tour with Prism Book Tours Book Tour Grand Finale for Through the White Wood By Jessica Leake We hope you enjoyed the tour! If you missed any of the stops you’ll find snippets, as well as the link to each full post, below: Launch – Note from the Author Hi everyone! I am so…
Spotlight: A Great Light
On Tour with Prism Book Tours Book Tour Grand Finale for A Great Light By Jennifer Ball We hope you enjoyed the tour! If you missed any of the stops you can see snippets, as well as the link to each full post, below: Launch – Note from the Author Welcome! I’m so excited to…
Much of Magic
Sir Bors set out on the Quest for the Holy Grail, but he spent most of the appointed year in prison because (it can happen) he made an unscheduled stop to proclaim the Gospel to apparently unreceptive heathens. “They knew much of magic,” he later told King Arthur, “but little of God.” (quoted from Maude…
Spotlight: Trust and Obey
Faith Blum has a new book. And it’s not a Western. It is a fairy tale retelling set during the time of King Saul. Read on to learn more about the book. About the Book A wicked priestess, a morally corrupt king, and two children stuck in the middle… Hadassah and Gidal love their parents…
Review: The Charlatan’s Boy
It’s a sad day in Corenwald when no one believes in feechies anymore. Specifically, it’s a sad day for Floyd Wendellson and his boy, Grady. The paying crowds pay them no longer. After making a living for years by pretending to be a feechie expert and a genuine feechie boy, they may have to get…
The Worthless World
Stories that are at their core cynical about the world present two different visions. The first is a vision of a world without heroes. The second is a vision of a world that doesn’t deserve heroes. These visions may easily be combined and sometimes are, but each can and does go alone, too. Together or…
Cover Reveal: Bound Beauty
On Tour with Prism Book Tours Welcome to the Cover Reveal for Bound Beauty By Jennifer Silverwood This YA Dark Fantasy is volume three in the Wylder Tale Series Coming winter 2018, cover designed by Najla Qamber Designs Beware the bond between blood and beasts… Vynasha has united the warring human and forgotten clans of…
A St. Valentine’s Poll
So I was thinking about what might be a good or at least passable topic and suddenly I realized: this post will go live on St. Valentine’s Day. It seemed appropriate, then, to write a post themed on this great holiday of love, and anyway I was having trouble scraping up passable topics. Whether this…