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Book Review of The Longest Day by Terry Toler

Book Review of The Longest Day by Terry Toler

This is a strange book. It won Best Book Award for Religious Fiction in 2020 from American Book Fest. It’s about redemption but seems to be in reverse. The first half of the book covers one day. The second half is many years later and covers a longer timeframe…

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Book Review of Love’s True Calling by Lori DeJong

Book Review of Love’s True Calling by Lori DeJong

This book is all about redemption, especially God’s redemption, but personal redemption as well. It’s not often I want to get finished with the book just so I can write the review, but this book is so good and so important in today’s world, that I couldn’t wait to get to this review…

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Book Review of Ranch Showdown by Tina Wheeler

Book Review of Ranch Showdown by Tina Wheeler

This fast-moving romantic suspense is about justice and the redemption of a relationship. I am amused by the series title. Love Inspired Suspense. Not in this case. The suspense is due to greed and criminal behavior. But there was inspiration romance…

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Book Review of The Misadventures of Itchy Izzy by N.Y. Dunlap

Book Review of The Misadventures of Itchy Izzy by N.Y. Dunlap

Definitely a story about redemption; the only kind of redemption that really matters. Redemption from God. This is a Christian romance that is humorous and fun. Not the type of book I generally read (been reading a lot of those the last couple years), but a welcome break from hard-boiled crime fiction…

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Book Review of Left to Die by Lisa Jackson

Book Review of Left to Die by Lisa Jackson

This is the first of the Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli novels. This one featured justice and vengeance, though that’s not evident until the end. Hopefully, that’s not a spoiler. The story is set in the mountains of Montana during the winter when they are getting heavier than normal snowfall. A serial killer is leaving women to die tied to a tree in Granite Falls, a small mountain town…

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Book Review of Already in the Kudzu by Hannah Hood Lucero

Book Review of Already in the Kudzu by Hannah Hood Lucero

This suspenseful romance novel is all about redemption with justice added in as the cherry on top. I call it suspenseful romance, because like almost all of the genre of romantic suspense, the suspense takes a back seat to the romance. See my blog article on this topic here. This is the first novel in the Sons of Vigilance series by Ms. Lucero…

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