NOT THIS TIME a Crossroads Crisis Center Series

WaterBrook Multnomah has introduced me to an addiction I’m afraid. I just finished the latest book in the Crossroads Crisis Center series by Vicki Hinze.  NOT THIS TIME is an enthralling, spellbinding, compelling book that I finished in little over one day. 

It is the culmination of intrigue surrounding a community where an international terrorist ring named NINA is trying to take over.  Sara and Beth are two women who have created and own a multi-million dollar software business and one of their primary customers is Quantico. Sara has married a man Beth does not trust which has put a strain on their relationship.

When NINA again makes its presence felt, it puts the whole community on edge and everyone is suspect. Who can you trust? Who is Raven? You may be surprised but not disappointed in the outcome.

I loved this book, now I just have to go back and read the first two in the series.  I am captured by the writing style of Ms. Hinze and will definitely read more of her books. I have no qualms about recommending this book to anyone who likes a good mystery with a little romance thrown in. 

I received this book from WaterBrook Multnomah free for an honest review.

I AM SECOND the book

I have watched some of the video’s I Am Second so I knew I would enjoy the book and I did. I AM SECOND Real Stores. Changing Lives by Doug Bender and Dave Sterrett is filled with stories of people who have faced themselves, their dreams, their failures and realized that it as Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 1:2, life is “vanity of vanities; all is vanity”. 

This is a book of people from all walks of life, some famous, and some you probably have never heard of. They have all had to acknowledge to themselves that they can’t do it by themselves that God is number one and they are second. There are football players, musicians, CEO’s, cancer survivors, boxes and just ordinary every day couples who almost lost each other. No matter your state in life, what you think you have achieved or not achieved, we all will sooner or later reach the end of ourselves.

This book will send you to your computer to see the stories of others that are not told here in these pages, and there are many. I highly recommend this book to all and it is a good one to pass on to non believers. I received this book free from Thomas Nelson for an honest review.

DO SOME CHRISTIANS ACT LIKE WEREWOLFS AND ZOMBIES?

 I just finished NIGHT of the LIVING DEAD CHRISTIAN by Matt Mikalatos. It is an allegory that mixes questions we all ask with touches of a weird humor.  

The story is of Luther, a werewolf, who is trying to take control of the animalistic side of himself and his neighbor who has fantasies of monsters with himself being a monster conqueror.  They join forces with an android and scientist who themselves are quite peculiar, in search for a cure for Luther. 

The premise is that like many people today they try to find the answers anywhere and anyway that does not require them to actually admit they can’t do it themselves and need to submit to God. There are many good thoughts and leaves you with much to think about. It will cause you to look around you and question how you may come across to people who are unchurched or even those who may have left the church and questions why they might have left. 

However, I still have not decided what I think of this book. I get what he’s saying and I understand the idea of presenting it with humor to possibly help the medicine go down better, but werewolf’s,  zombies, and monsters? I challenge you to read the book for yourself and make up your own mind.

I received this book free from Tyndale Publishers for a fair and honest review.

A SOUND AMONG the TREES

A Sound Among the Trees was the first book I have read by Susan Meissner and I loved it. I have always loved historical novels and although this was written in modern day the book drew you into the history that defines the family. 

The narrative surrounds a house in Virginia and the family that has owned it since before the Civil War. There are those who believe that the house is haunted because of a rumor that one of the women was a Yankee spy. 

The account starts with the marriage of the widow of the great great granddaughter of the rumored spy and thus begins the journey of the new wife to get some answers.  

The book becomes more a story of love, loss, forgiveness and starting over.  It also helps bring into some clarity the struggle that many must have had because of family and friends on both sides of the war.

I received this book free from WaterBrook Press for a fair and honest review.