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I saw in one of my e-mails a 6 book set for $.99 by Christine Sterling: SILVERPINES - https://amazon.com/gp/product/B08VS88KSS
On book three of one of my fantasy series and book four of the other. Just read in the one last night. I did finish THROUGH GATES OF SPLENDOR, wow, what an amazing story and the faith of the wives is remarkable!0 -
I have been reading through a series of Love Inspired Suspense books by Dana Mentink.
Desert Justice
MISSING IN THE DESERT by Dana Mentink (LIS) KU
DEATH VALLEY DOUBLE CROSS by Dana Mentink (LIS)
DEATH VALLEY HIDEOUT by Dana Mentink (LIS)
CHRISTMAS CRIME COVER-UP by Dana Mentink (LIS)
I had already read book 1 and am waiting for the last one, so they aren't listed.
Currently I am listening to THE WIDOW OF LARKSPUR LANE by Lawana Blackwell (historical).0 -
Editing: This book was really good! I went ahead and started on the second book IN THE MIDST OF THE DARKEST HOUR. It was a great romantic suspense with lots of good Christian influence in the lives of the characters. I definitely would not call the book a thriller. I really didn't know if I was in the mood for something that intense.
I found a new suspense/thriller author on KU that is supposed to be really good. Her name is Latisha Sexton. Her first book is IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM. I am just starting it. I will keep you updated.0 -
I loved the second book in the series, too. I do need to put a disclaimer that it had one lite but slang word used twice, though. She has a new women's fiction due to release this summer.0
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I like Dana Mentink.
I finished THE KING'S CAPTIVE by K M Shea. I normally give her high marks, but this one was just too full of magic and magical characters. I liked the premise, but that got in the way. I skipped through quite a bit of it. I didn't read her last series and didn't plan to read this one, but ended up trying it anyway - won't finish the rest. I keep waiting for her to finish my favorite series, just one more book, but she got caught up in these and it's been at least two years now. Who knows if she will ever finish it. If she keeps writing this way I won't be able to call her one of my favorite authors.
I finished DEEP STATE STEALTH by Vikki Kestell, boy, right out of today's news! No, there aren't nano-powered people "saving" the world, but the wickedness of the government and the secret wheeling and dealing is right there! This one had a stronger Christian message to it as well.
Almost done with book 4 in the Melanie Cellier series I am re-reading.
I've started a couple of others, a Western and an Amish but am not into either one but will try to keep reading and see how they go. I've started and stopped a couple of others just because I didn't like the feel of the story and didn't want to get involved when it just didn't feel right.0 -
I finished the Deborah Raney book I had been reading - Beneath a Southern Sky -and started on the second in that 2 book series - After the Rains (Camfield Legacy Books).0
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I started re-reading the Carol Moncado Prince/Princess series again. I have quite a few of the books already, and I started book one last night, and am surprised how little I remember of it! LOL! I finished my fantasy re-reads and wanted to go in a different direction. I also have a series by ? Blackard that I want to re-read before I read her latest book. I've thought about re-reading the Alaska series that starts with STRANDED by Dani Pettrey. She has a new novella to go with it, but there is so much I don't remember, and I don't like reading something added to a series when I don't remember the series that well.
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I think it's Sara Blackard. I like Dani Pettrey. Maybe I'll look into that novella. Thanks, Kim!Restfinder wrote: »I started re-reading the Carol Moncado Prince/Princess series again. I have quite a few of the books already, and I started book one last night, and am surprised how little I remember of it! LOL! I finished my fantasy re-reads and wanted to go in a different direction. I also have a series by ? Blackard that I want to re-read before I read her latest book. I've thought about re-reading the Alaska series that starts with STRANDED by Dani Pettrey. She has a new novella to go with it, but there is so much I don't remember, and I don't like reading something added to a series when I don't remember the series that well.
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Thanks for the name, Cindy! I wanted to say something like Sandra - say what??? Sara just didn't come to my mind! LOL!
I am reading a book on David Livingstone, very interesting. I'm also listening to BLOOD SECRETS by Morgan L Busse. I'd started it but couldn't get into it but am enjoying it this second time around.
GOOD ENOUGH FOR A PRINCESS by Carol Moncado, but I don't think it's the first book in the entire series and I can't find a list of all the books in these series. I believe the first book has Christiana in it, and this book mentions her, but I'm not sure how to find it! Wah!
I finished ESTHER'S CHERISHED DESTINY a story based on the story of Esther in the Bible but taking place in a medieval time. It was a stop-and-start book for me, but I enjoyed it closer to the end. There is some steamy kissing in this one.
I have a compilation of Pride and Prejudice continuation books by Eliza Heaton. There are four books in the series and I've finished book one - Kitty and Mary find love in this one. Pretty good. His Everlasting Love Media put it out so it has a Christian bent to it.
I am reading a fantasy called MAIDEN OF CANDLELIGHT AND LOTUSES by Anastasis Blythe. This is an Asian story about a farm girl who finds she has a magic gift of visions and is sent to the academy but this academy is very strange and pretty much just dumps you in and you have to find your way around and learn as best you can, hoping someone higher up will take you under their wing - and two men are that for her, one of them the Prince.0 -
Right now I am listening to LIE FOR ME by Karen Young (susp). It has started on a positive note. I just.finished THE VANISHING AT CASTLE MOREAU by Jaime Jo Wright (split time susp). That was an amazing book -right now it is in my top 2 books of the year. Her books always have creepy vibes that work out not to be creepy in the end.
Carol Moncado is one author that I always read as soon as they are released. Here is her book list on fantastic fiction. The series meld into each other.
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I just started Deborah Raney's Breath of Heaven - Book 3 in the Camfield Legacy series0
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Thank you, Connie. I must have started reading the series farther in the first time because I don't remember reading this first set (the first ones in her list of series) before. I am quite enjoying them though. I'm on the second one ALONG CAME A PRINCE. I love the king in these first stories, he is for his children even though they want what their country says they can't have, and he finds a way to work it out for them! Now the Queen, she's a meddling mess.
I am in an out of other books. I started a book COYOTE'S REVENGE by Vanetta Chapman and ran into a cuss word. Oh, by today's standards it's pretty much a throw away phrase, but it's still cussing to me! Ugh, she was a safe one for me - now, I'm not so sure.
I'm reading THE ENCHANTED WREATH by Brittany Fichter. This is a novella so I should finish it tonight. Part of her obscure fairy tale stories.
I also started BURN AWAY by Anna Travis, this is the sixth book in a series by her that I have really enjoyed. It deals with a group of teens who went on a missions trip and ended up in another world where one of the teens had originally come from and now they must try and save her land, and each teen has to willingly take on a gift that will help her.
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Right now I am working through some Jessie Gussman books on YouTube. They are part of the Flyboys of Sweet Briar Ranch series. I always enjoy her books.0
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I think it's one of her books that's free today, but I believe that you both read them - the ones in the wheat field and the guy is holding up the little boy.
I finished two of the fantasies that I'm reading by Anastasia Blythe, a prequel and book one: MAIDEN OF CANDLELIGHT AND LOTUSES and GUARDIANS OF TALONS AND SNARES. They are set in a China-like land but with some magical gifts thrown in.
I'm still working on BURN AWAY, the sixth book in this fantasy series.
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I think I have read pretty much all of Jessie Gussman's books. She writes a LOT, though. Now, I am waiting for them to come up on YouTube and doing them audio. There is a new one coming up tomorrow. She has a new book every Friday on YouTube, but sometimes they are back list. When she has a new release, she usually works with the narrator (Jay Dyess) and they release the audio and ebook on the same day. There are only 3 books of hers that I haven't read. 2 of them I have and one is available on KU. This is an older series and previously was not available on KU. I don't know when she changed it, but the three I have "read" in the series were on YouTube.
Currently I am reading GABRIEL by Liz Isaacson (romance). I always enjoy her books...light and easy
I am listening to BROKER OF LIES by Steven James (susp). His books are always so intense and I'm not really sure I am ready for it. I will try it for a while (just 30 minutes in to it) and see if I need something lighter.
I found a new historical series that is just releasing. It is called the Pink Pistol Sisterhood. They are all by different authors. So far there are 2 books out and I think there are supposed to be 7. Book 3 comes out tomorrow. I read book 1, IN HER SIGHTS by Karen Witemeyer (historical) KU. It was only about 100 pages, but I got a kick out of it. It starts out with a man giving Annie Oakley a Pink Pistol and asks her to give it away to someone that needs it. It has a letter with it that is to be passed with the pistol.0 -
I finished Breath of Heaven - Book 3 in the Deborah Raney Camfield Legacy series. Haven't started anything new yet
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I finished the book I was reading about David Livingstone, very good. I found it on Hoopla. It's by Janet and Geoff Benge. Phew, that man went through a lot! I have another one by him, but it actually isn't as good.
I finished the second book in the Carol Moncado series, ALONG CAME A PRINCE and started book three,
MORE THAN A PRINCESS. So far it's pretty good. I think it's funny that in the first three stories, poor Jonathan dates the princess but ends up losing her to someone else, but he doesn't go into it without knowing they are interested in someone else! I don't think I ever read the story where he finally gets the girl, so am looking forward to that one!
I am going to start book 3 in my Anastasis Blythe series, WARRIOR OF BLADE AND DUSK. It's a continuation of book two's characters.
I'm struggling with the Brittany Fichter story, THE ENCHANTED WREATH. She gets the man, but there is a "witch" after her and a wicked stepmother who despises her and so something bad is going to happen, and this one is darker than many of her other ones, so it's hard for me to get into.
I'm a little lost in BURN AWAY because I don't remember much of what happened in the last book. I may have to go back and re-read it before going further into this one.
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I just finished A BRIGHTER DAWN by Leslie Gould (Amish/Mennonite/split time). It was an amazing book. I can't even believe that I am saying that about an Amish/Mennonite book. The family has both Amish and Mennonites in the book. The main characters are Mennonite, but the grandparents on one side are Amish. It also deals with the Mennonites in Nazi Germany during WW2. WOW!0
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Sounds interesting - I've downloaded it from Hoopla!
I'm disappointed in my second go through of the Carol Moncado books, I don't remember the characters being so worldly. In this fourth book, the main female character is 19 years old and her 21 year old husband keeps offering her wine to drink! What's up with that??? And these are Christian characters. I probably won't finish this one (Jessabelle and Malachi). I'm really wanting to get to the one with Christiana and her brother.
I'm reading a Janet and Geoff Benge story about George Mueller, very good. They have quite a few books through YWAM (Youth with a Mission) publishing about missionaries and other characters in history. So far I've found several audio ones on Hoopla.
Also working on re-reading Lost, the fifth book in this fantasy series, and then will move on to the sixth and last book (but I don't remember the title). I've enjoyed this series. It's about teens, the main character being just 15 in this new book, but very mature teens - perhaps because they are actually several hundred years old by now! LOL!0 -
I finished the George Meuller book, very good. I really like how these books are read, very easy listening to them. Amy Carmichael will be my next one.
Still working on LOST, a fantasy re-read.
I'll probably go on to the next book in the Carol Moncado series as well.0 -
I have been listening to ELDERBERRY CROFT by Becky Doughty. It is really different. Hoopla had a bunch of months, but the one listed above is all of the months. It takes place in a trailer park and it is about the 12 residents there. One is a lady that lives in a small cabin at the park and she is the constant through all of the months and residents. There is another one after this book. Right now I am on November, so I will finish today.
I am "reading" a Love Inspired Suspense, but haven't read any on it since leaving last Monday for Mom's. I will have to go back a couple of chapters to remember what is going on. I will probably do that this afternoon so I can get it in my April books.0 -
I'm reading the Christiana story from the Carol Moncado series. I think I remembered bits and pieces from other books that involved her and put them all together, so this book isn't what I expected. The angst that goes off and on throughout the story keeps me from continuing to read. I move on to something else when they start misunderstanding each other and don't get a chance to talk (although I would have told everyone to get out, we need to talk for a few minutes and get it straightened out!
I'm jumping around a lot, trying to find something to latch onto:
CASTLE OF DUSK AND SHADOWS by Rachel Schade. This has a touch of Pride and Prejudice in a Fae/human setting.
INVENTOR by Tara Grayce - this is a compilation of add-on stories for her series. So far it's alright, not my favorite format.
LADY OF DEVICES by Shelley Adina, a steampunk Regency and so far pretty good.
THE MISSIONARY, an African Tale by Francis John Miller. So far it's about his life before becoming a missionary and I'm not really enjoying it that much, but will continue to read it off and on.
I'm getting ready to start ADONIRAM JUDSON, a Hoopla audio missionary biography. Very excited to get into a new one.
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I started an ARC read called THE KING'S FEATHER by Amy Earls. It is a fantasy that uses several Biblical stories intermingled. One of the characters represents Saul, while there is also Ruth, Rahab, Salmon. The Biblical stories don't go together, but the character of the people represented fit well in this story.
I am also listening to the story of BROTHER ANDREW by Janet and Geoff (forgot their last name), so interesting. I never knew more than his work in bringing Bibles into Communist countries; learning more of where he came from really adds to this story!0 -
Finished:
Lantern Beach Exposure - her newest series. The next one is due in Mid-May I am really enjoying it...about a manufacturing company that moves to town and everyone thinks there is something strange about it, since it is really expensive to get supplies to the island. That thread seems like it will run through the series. I'm not sure if more than the 3 books are planned.
FRACTURED LIES by Christy Barritt (suspense) KU
SHATTERED WHISPERS by Christy Barritt (suspense) KU
Current:
Haven Ridge series This is her newest series.
THE BRICK HOUSE CAFE by Carla Laureano - It has a bit of "what-if". The GPS lead her to the town instead of where she was supposed to go, then her car wouldn't start and her BnB reservations for where she was supposed to be was for the wrong month. All kinds of strange things seem to be happening, but fun. This is the beginning of the series and was sent free to newsletter subscribers.
The Broken hearts bakery by Carla Laureano - I got this one from the library, so it is ready to read when I finish the first book.
I don't have an audiobook started yet, but have several checked out, so will decide on one before bedtime. I just finished:
HOPEFULLY EVER AFTER by Beth Wiseman (Amish)
JUST A COWBOY'S SHOTGUN WEDDING by Jessie Gussman (romance)
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I finished THE KING'S FEATHER, enjoyed it very much.0
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I just finished 26 BELOW by Kimberley Woodhouse. Such a different book for her: Contemporary suspense set in Alaska. Now, I can't wait till book two comes out.0
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I started a couple of fantasies that were suggested on a site for clean books, but they weren't. One of the books had a strong slang word on the first page and was very teenagerish - I deleted it. The other one was a KU so I just sent it back.
I started the book on Amy Charmichael, but I think I forgot to finish the one about Brother Andrew! Ugh. I've read another book about his ministry, so I don't feel too bad about that.
I am reading the sixth book in the Carol Moncado series, the one with Nicolaus and Yvette.0 -
I have been doing some light reading over the weekend.
Pink Pistol Sisterhood:- This is a really cute series about a pink pistol that is supposed to bring love. As you can see, there are several different authors. These are books 2-4. There will be 10, I think, but only 4 have released.
LOVE ON TARGET by Shanna Hatfield (historical) KU
LOVE UNDER FIRE by Cheryl Pierson (historical) KU
BULLET PROOF BRIDE by Kit Morgan (historical) KU
Blair Brothers
THE WHOLE STORY by Brooke St. James (romance)
DREAM CHASER by Brooke St. James (romance) - Current listen
TWISTED PLOTS by Bonita Y McCoy (cozy) KU- pretty good. I will probably look up more of them.
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I'm reading about Amy Charmichael, very interesting. I'm also reading the second book in that time shifting story - IN THIS MOMENT by Gabrielle Meyer. She is living three different lives and I tell you, they are hard for me to keep straight, no wonder she's frazzled as she now has to choose which life she will remain in! I think she is going to pick 1941! I'm surprised that she hasn't met anyone from her 1941 life since it's just 60 years earlier than her 2001 life and both involve the medical field!
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I finished several books:
AMY CHARMICHAEL by Janet Benge - very good.
IN THIS MOMENT by Gabrielle Meyer. I cheated and read the ending!
SONG OF THE SEA by Deborah Grace White. Little Mermaid re-tell with lots of twists.
WARRIOR OF BLADE AND DUSK by Anastasia Blythe. There are three more stories in this series and I will go on to read the fourth one which doesn't center around the characters from the first three. This is an oriental fantasy.
I'm still working on PROTECTORS OF THE PRINCE. It's hard because Nicki is fixated on what is happening to him and his poor wife seems to get left behind.
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