Tag Archives: young adult
A Good Star to An Epic Adventure
Air-Born – Laura Power This book asks the question: Can two outcasts save the Realm? Banished in disgrace after losing a priceless heirloom days before her coming-of-age ceremony, Amber’s search takes her far beyond the borders of Fairymead and sends her stumbling into a Goblin plot of sorcery and savagery. Giving up her ability to […]
Young Adult Dystopian Done Right, Again
One of my favorite Young Adult books in 2012 returned with a sequel that did not disappoint. Rain and her band of super-teens (that’s my tagline, not the authors) are still enslaved in the UZA. The new breed of freedoms fighters are committed to ending the tyranny of President Nicks “Tricky Nicky”, but realize that […]
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The Definitive Catching Fire Movie/Book Review
Ok, so I saw Catching Fire for the second time last night. I needed to take my daughter to see it and I figured it’d be a good time for me to really “digest” the movie with an unbiased ‘I read the book’ perspective. When I first saw the movie opening day, I had some […]
RECENT HONORS
I am so grateful and blessed to have received some recent news. For one, The School of Ministry: The Windgate is getting rave reviews by bloggers and has picked up two awards this year: Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Award for Young Adult – General and Literary Classics Gold Medal for Faith Based Young Adult, along […]
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The Reviews for The School of Ministry Are Pouring In
For all of those who have purchased and are reading SOM, thank you so much. This book was more than just a dream for me, it is a passion. The characters, the story, the setting, everything screams “Big Picture” and I am enjoying the feedback. My latest review came from KIRKUS (the name of […]
BOOK REVIEW: DOON by Carey Corp and Lorie Langdon
Book Review for DOON by Carey Corp and Lorie Langdon Doon Copyright © 2013 by Carey Corp and Lorie Langdon ISBN 978–0–310–74230–2 How do you like your fairy tales? Sappy, weak, predictable, slow-moving and stale? That’s kind of the question I had to ask myself when I started reading Doon. Not because the story was […]
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REVIEW: The Data Runner by Sam Patel
I’m running. I’m running. And I can’t stop. As an ex-track athlete who spent most of his time doing the exact same thing in high school and college, I can appreciate a good run. I was a hurdler. Leaping over a 42 inch barrier, running full speed, with multiple adversaries in the adjacent lanes next […]
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BOOK REVIEW: PRODIGY BY MARIE LU
I gotta admit, something about Prodigy just didn’t fill me up like Legend did. The plot in Legend was so much less predictable than Prodigy. The freshness of the story telling was also so rewarding. The love story between Day and June was revved up a bit, but not enough to satisfy me this time […]
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