My rating: 3 of 5 stars After reading A.D. 33, the previous book (A.D. 30) remains my favorite Dekker book. A.D. 33 has its strengths, but it’s not as good as the first volume. Strengths: While I don’t agree with all of Dekker’s interpretations of...
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoyed Alcorn’s book The Treasure Principle, so I thought I’d give his fiction a try. This is his first novel and it stayed on the bestseller lists for 36 months. The story is interesting enough. It wasn’t exactly gripping,...
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Just now getting around to reading the books everyone else read in high school. Animal farm is a detailed allegory about the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Stalin. The basic idea is the animals overthrow the oppressive farmer and take...
My rating: 3 of 5 stars The writing style of this book involves several elements that my editors would have fits if I used them (such as frequent POV changes within scenes, the many adverbs attached to dialogue tags, and a lot of telling instead of showing). But these...
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Disclaimer: I’m probably not the target audience for this book, as I don’t read romances and I’m not a big fan of dogs. What I liked:The author is an excellent wordsmith. Her writing is remarkable, both in the beauty of the prose and the depth...
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Too often, biblical historical fiction does little more than borrow some biblical characters for a story that could have happened concurrently with biblical events, and that intersects with biblical events at points. I believe writers in this...
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