This series is such a study in contrasts thus far. On one hand, the portrayal of the acceleration toward Armageddon is gripping. I raced through to the end, engrossed in how Rayford's and Buck's lives become increasingly intertwined with that of Antichrist. I was fascinated with the portrayal of the ...
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Any good series should up the stakes in its final installment, and this one certainly did. Elisa is a sorcerer queen who doesn't yet know how to wield the magic of the Godstone put in her navel by God on her naming day, but her enemies, the Inviernos, seem to have purposes for her of their own. They ...
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My mom read this to me when I was probably a pre-teen. As I recall, we didn't finish the series, though I think we read perhaps four or five of them. They came back to my attention recently as I listened to a YouTube series on the Book of Revelation by Chuck Missler, and he mentioned that he knew ...
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This is one of those rare books where the sequel is better than the first! I almost didn't decide to read on in this trilogy, because my favorite character in "The Girl of Fire and Thorns" died about 75% of the way through. I didn't know if I cared enough about the rest of the characters ...
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Sigh. This is one of those feel-good, curl up with a good mug of tea or hot chocolate on a cold and rainy day kinds of books. I didn't know it would be that for awhile though... I was cringing at times, fearing that I was in for a tragedy, or a bittersweet story at best. But Barbara Davis didn't let ...
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It's rare that I enjoy a fantasy this much! The storyline is fascinating--the fantasy elements are very religious, and tangentially related to recognizable Christian themes, but it's set in a different universe. The fantasy revolves around the Godstone, a stone that God places in the navel of His ...
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There is something magical about the combination of Stephanie Garber's narrative style, and Rebecca Soler's voice. The world created by the combination of the two is delightful, almost regardless of the actual story. I'm glad, though, that this story is set in the same world as Caraval--in fact, ...
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I found the first 1/4 to 1/3 of this book to be slow, probably because our main characters were happy and mostly conflict-free. Ransom and Claire were married, and in love with each other. Claire fell pregnant, though her pregnancy is a difficult one. There's some far-off political intrigue that ...
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Very interesting concepts. Drosnin did not discover the Bible Codes he describes here; he's a reporter (and an atheist one at that) who stumbled upon the discovery via a computer program discovered by a Jewish rabbi. He then cross-referenced it with numerous mathematicians who could not disprove it. ...
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This story is an equally compelling read to the first in the series, but I still liked it slightly less for three main reasons: first, Spensa is the only character in the story really that carries over from the previous one, because she hyperjumps across space and meets a bunch of aliens. Second, ...
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