Favorite March Reads

The Hunted Heir by Jayna Breigh

A Fast-Paced Legal Drama!

I was super excited to discover that this author is a retired lawyer and puts her education and experience onto the page as she takes readers through the twists and turns of a really fun mystery! While the general market has a variety of authors who were lawyers, I don’t think I’ve run across this in Christian fiction before. So wonderful! I loved the private eye heroine and the lawyer hero. Their dynamic was super-fun. I especially enjoyed the heroine’s wonderful doggy companions. This was a great read! 

How To Plot A Payback by Melissa Ferguson

This RomCom Made Me Laugh Out Loud Sooooo Many Times!

I laughed so hard while reading this. Well, listening to it, rather. I listened while walking our 11-month-old Newfoundland puppy (she needs a 3-mile walk to keep her sane) and found myself laughing out loud, in the woods, as I walked alone, with only my dog to stare at me questioningly. So many great moments! We all know that person that just seems to get ahead in life and those that just seem to have trouble heaped in their laps, again and again. But making one the heroine and the other the hero was ingenious. And the payback plans! Really, this one is so good. Christian fiction at its most hilarious. You should definitely run to your bookstore or library to snap it up!

Please Return To The Lands of Luxury by Jon Tilton

Beautifully-Paced Middle Grade Novel With Heart!

OK, I know I’m a writer nerd, but seriously, the pacing in this book was just so fabulous!!! It was a joy to listen to. Never bored, no matter which characters the story followed, I was always engaged. The author develops both the trash pile world and the futuristic Lands of Luxury with depth and care. Twists and turns that will appeal to the young reader and have them biting their fingernails with worry, but also cared for young sensibilities with action that is tense but never graphic. This story is written from a Christian worldview but is never preachy. I absolutely love it!

Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup

Just Wow!

This is not an easy read. But Holy Smokes, it is a powerful story. The true story of a free man who was kidnapped and taken away from his home and family in the north to become a slave in the south. My son read this for a college assignment and after he asked me to look through his paper for mistakes, I had to borrow the book! This one is a general market book. Painfully honest, full of violence, language, and pure horror, it is nonetheless unputdownable. Written before the Civil War, this account reveals the many ways that I was taught a sanitized version of our history of slavery. Oh, and I learned a bunch of new words besides. Folks had quite an eloquent vocabulary back then. I mean, not everyone, but Mr. Northup had such a lovely way with words, even about the terrible journey he lived. A first-hand account that is not to be missed!

An Overdue Match by Sarah Monzon

Hilarious and Heartwarming!

Librarians and tattoo artists, what’s not to love? I laughed so many times, this is such a funny book. But also, the author pulled me deeply into the heroine’s perspective and I just ached for Evangeline and her fears to date because of her alopecia. The tension was high as I worried how the hero would find out but the way he responded was just gentle and swoony and wonderful. What a great read! This one is Christian fiction and has a lovely spiritual arch as well as a romantic one.