Christian Fiction: The Bookshop of Secrets, The Prayer Box #BookReview #Audiobook #12Friends12Books @HarlequinBooks

This post highlights two Christian Fiction books I recently read. The Bookshop of Secrets is a mystery, adventure and story of new beginnings and healing. The Prayer Box is a story of self-worth, new beginnings, speaking up for those who can’t and family. Both of these books also have romance in them, but that is NOT the main focus of either book. The Prayer Box is my fourth book read for my 12 Friends, 12 Books Challenge, so I am one book ahead of schedule.

Saturday Morning For Kids: Saint Patrick the Forgiver #BookReview #NonFiction #ReadingIrelandMonth23 #ReadNonFicChal2023

This meme was started by Rae Longest at Powerful Women Readers. As I am a grandmother, who loves to read to her grandchildren, a mother who loved to read to and with her children, and a retired teacher librarian, this meme really attracted me.

Saturday Morning for Kids: Books About Love and Gratitude (A Very Thankful Prayer Seek and Find, Mama Sing My Song, Why the World Needs Love, Mom’s Hugs and Kisses)

This meme was started by Rae Longest at Powerful Women Readers. As I am a grandmother, who loves to read to her grandchildren, a mother who loved to read to and with her children, and a retired teacher librarian, this meme really attracted me.

Romance Mini-Reviews: A Lot Like Forever, The Forgiving Quilt, The Next Best Day #BookReview

I do enjoy a good romance, and all three of these are interesting and enjoyable. They are very different from one another, one being a family story, another an Amish romance and the last being a story dealing with trauma and PTSD and healing while finding romance.

Christian Fiction by Colleen Coble: A Stranger’s Game, Edge of Dusk #BookReview #Audiobook @ThomasNelson

Colleen Coble is well known for her Christian Fiction, Romantic Suspense stories. I have read many of them and was happy to read and review these two published in 2022. A Stranger’s Game is a standalone story, while The Edge of Dusk is the first in a new series. I listened to one and read one and enjoyed them both to varying degrees. Scroll down for my reviews.

A Nanny for the Rancher’s Twins by Heidi Main #BookReview @HeidiMain

A Nanny for the Rancher’s Twins by Heidi Main

Expected publication: October 25th 2022 by Love Inspired

Deadly Alaskan Pursuit: Alaskan Rescue by Terri Reed, Wilderness Defender by Maggie K. Black #BookReview #Audiobook @HarperAudio

Alaskan Rescue and Wilderness Defender are books #1 and #2 in the Alaska K-9 Unit series. Both of these stories were recently published together as an audiobook: Deadly Alaskan Pursuit. There are nine stories in this series at this time, and I am looking forward to reading or listening to more of them. Thanks to HarperAudio for my copy of this audiobook upon request. The rating and opinions shared are my own.

Mini-Reviews: Sugar and Salt, For Butter or Worse, Bless Your Heart Rae Sutton #BookReview #Audiobook #2022AudiobookChallenge @HarperAudio @WmMorrowBooks @HQNBooks

Sugar and Salt, For Butter or Worse and Bless Your Heart, Rae Sutton all deal with issues affecting women. Whether is is sexism, justice, the other woman, proving yourself, or just dealing with preconceived notions of being emotional and not smart enough, they are all here in one way or another. These are very different stories from one another, with one being Christian Fiction and one being a bit steamy, but all were enjoyable to read or listen to.

#ChristmasInJuly2022 – Reviews 7 & 8: An Amish Holiday Courtship by Emma Miller, Christmas Vendetta by Valerie Hansen #BookReview #BeatTheBacklist2022

Books seven and eight for Christmas in July were both Christian Fiction, one an Amish Romance, one Romantic Suspense. Although they were both set at Christmas, there wasn’t much more than that fitting the Christmas story theme.