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Archive for 2011

Stalker in the Shadows By Camy Tang / Steeple Hill Books

My Review: This the third installment featuring the Grant sisters. Stalker in the Shadows features the youngest Grant girl, Monica, self-proclaimed wild child. Although she has faithfully cared for her father since his stroke she dreams of something bigger, a free health clinic for children. Following a charity banquet she starts receiving threatening letters encouraging her to abandon her cherished project.

Her knight in shining armor, former border patrolman, Shaun O’Neill, has his own agenda in finding Monica’s stalker. He is looking for his own redemption to quiet the demons which taunt him. He is determined to find the stalker before he can hurt Monica.

This book is true Love Inspired Suspense in every sense of the word, there is love story, excellent suspense, and a line of redemption. From the onset there is an attraction between Shaun and Monica, yet each, for their own reasons, does not want to act on their feelings. The author does a great job of creating suspense in many of the scenes. If she gave any clues in the book who the stalker was, I missed them.  She kept me guessing until the end. Although, the main characters are Christians through the story both Monica and Shaun have to examine their lives, their pasts as well as their current motives.  One of the things I love about the Love Inspired books is at least one of the characters ends the story a better person than they were at the beginning.

If you’re a fan of Love Inspired you should enjoy the story. Camy Tang’s writing is solid and engaging. Her characters are very real and easy to identify.  Although, this deals with the youngest of the three Grant sisters this book stands independently, you won’t feel lost if you haven’t read the other two.

I received this book from the author, but the opinions reflected in this review are my own. 

The Giveaway: I’ll pick one winner for those who enter, you can pick either a paperback copy or a Kindle version. I’ll pick the winner on January 8th at 9:00 PM PST.  Contest open to US residents 18 and older only.

I’ve started a new blog called mybible360.blogspot.com The purpose of this blog is to get people to read one chapter of the Bible per day for a year.  So many of us make this grand goal or New Year’s resolution to read the entire Bible in a year. Too often we fall short and find ourselves frustrated and guilt ridden and much too often not reading scripture at all.

I truly believe God doesn’t care about how much of the Bible we read in a year but how much we get out of His word in a year. I truly believe it’s quality not quantity that God cares about.

Please feel free to join me in this adventure. Share the site with friends and family. And please pray for me that I will be able to encourage others to read God’s Word and start looking at ways to apply it to our lives.

Blessings,

HollyMag321 

Blind Trust, Second Chance Chronicles #3 By Terri Blackstock / Zondervan Two weeks before he was to marry Sherry, Clint Jessup disappeared without a trace. Now, suddenly, eight months later, he’s back with no explanation, only an impossible request: to trust him. Whatever secret Clint is hiding, it’s changed him. And it’s about to change Sherry. These circumstances can either restore or forever destroy Sherry’s faith not only in Clint, but in others and perhaps in God himself.

Terri Blackstock is a wonderful author! This is one of her older books, and as good as it is her newer writing is better.
Eight months ago, Clint disappears just two weeks before his wedding with Sherry, with no explanation he was just gone. And now he’s back still without an explanation for why he bailed. Sherry is understandably hurt, angry and distrust the man she thought she knew.
The action is fast paced with a lot of action. I thought I had a couple of things figured out but in typical Blackstock fashion she has a couple of expected twists.
One of the things that is really neat about this series, Second Chances, is what Terri shares at the beginning of each book in the series. She shares how when she wrote them early in her career she compromised her beliefs in the stories. Later in her career she was given the rights back to these books and the opportunity (The Second Chance) to retell the stories.
A wonderful story. The first person who reads this review and emails me at books@magnusonhouse.com with your mailing address I’ll send you my copy of this book.