Walking on Hidden Wings by Rachel Scott McDaniel review

 Title: Walking on Hidden Wings

Author: Rachel Scott McDaniel

Ch: 37

Pg: 328

Genre: Christian historical fiction Christian historical romance dual time

Rating: 5 stars

Publisher: Kregel publisher

Walking on Hidden Wings by Rachel Scott McDaniel may be her most emotional book to date. It’s also her steamiest in the sense that the couple is married, but it’s still a clean read. But you can still feel the love that they have for each other despite what they’ve been through. And the book is still faith filled.

Geneva Ashcroft Hayes is determined to find out what’s happen to her husband Warren Hayes. I love how this story plays out and is told in dual timelines. I also enjoyed learning more about wingwalking and barnstorming a lesser known piece of 1920s history and I’ve always loved planes. McDaniel never disappoints with the mystery romance and faith filled stories.

 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

 

I received a copy of this book from the author . I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

Blog Tour review of A Sparkle of Sliver

Title:  A Sparkle of Silver

Author: Liz Johnson

Series: Georgia Coast Romance book 1

 

Chapters: 21 plus epilogue

Pages: 358

Genre: Christian Contemporary with a hint a mystery and Romance

Rating: 4 stars

Millie Sullivan is determined to find away to provide nursing care for her grandma joy the grandma who raised her.  Even snoop around the estate of oil tycoon Howard Dawkins after getting a job as a 20s era guest and tour guide. She's then caught by one of the security guards Ben Thornton a man dealing with his own family troubles.  She makes a deal with him in order to split the treasure.   If he helps her and doesn't turn her end, because even though she only took the job to snoop she really does need the second job.  Against  his better judgement he accepts and agrees to help her.  Sending them both on a journey that they didn't see coming. 

This sweet novel set on St Simons Island Georgia is part contemporary novel, part mystery with just a hint of romance.  Millie and Ben with next to nothing in common, even though he works three jobs he still has a college degree. Millie doesn't she works as a waitress trying to keep her grandmother in her assisted living d who loves reading.  A 90 year old mystery  both want to find the treasure neither  was counting on finding something else instead. 

Millie and Ben were great characters and grandma Joy was such a sweetheart.  Even with everything she had been through in her life Joy never lost her faith she was still trusting God. Even when her granddaughter's faith was shaky.    Millie I have to say was indeed my favorite character mainly because she was the one that was easiest one to relate too. I too know what it’s like to be the only one taking care of a grandparent not because you’re the only one, but because your younger sister in school and needs to finish college.  So it was easy to feel every emotion that Millie was dealing with through the whole book.  The fact that she's a bookworm didn't hurt nor the fact one of my favorite quotes from the book came from her "talking about if she had the money she'd choice books and bookshelves over steak." A girl after my own heart. 

Ben as far as male main characters go was a little on the nerdy side but that was a refreshing change as you don't see many slightly nerdy characters in fiction even Christian fiction.    Ben's main goal through much of the novel is to try to make amends for something that he feels responsible for, though technically not his fault. Though Ben and Millie come from different backgrounds they both have the same thing to work on; forgiveness. 

A Sparkle of Silver by Liz Johnson might be a contemporary novel mixed with mystery and a little romance, but at the heart it is a Christian fiction novel focusing on the theme of forgiveness this novel is so much more.  The Christian message while subtle is still there, woven throughout the story.  Of expecting God's forgiveness, forgiven yourself and finally forgiven others.  The other theme in the novel  besides faith is the love of family, and learning that sometimes blood might make you related it doesn't always make you family love makes you family. 

I enjoyed A Sparkle of Silver by Liz Johnson which just happens to be my first book by her but it will not be my last.  I look forward to the next book in this series as well as going back to read her other books. 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

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Mini Christmas Reviews

Title: The Navy’s Night Before Christmas

                     

Author: Christine Ford, Trish Holland

Pages: 32

Genre: Children’s Christmas book

Rating: 4 stars

The Navy’s Night Before Christmas is a retelling of  The Night Before Christmas. On Board a Navy Ship, and it is a really cute and sweet read. To remind us to remember our military at Christmas and every day o f the year.  I wish this book was out when I was a kid an my dad was deployed during Christmas.  

Title: Mr. Miracle

          

Author: Debbie Macomber

Series: Angelic Intervention book 10

Pages: 256

Genre: Christmas

Rating: 4 stars

Mr. Miracle is another Christmas novella from Debbie Macomber. Who is another author that I read her Christmas novels every year. 

Title: The Christmas Light

Author: Donna VanLiere

Pages: 224

Genre: Christmas

Rating: 4

The Christmas Light by Donna VanLiere is another sweet Christmas read by Donna VanLiere the same author who wrote The Christmas Shoes.  I always try to read one of Donna’s books at Christmas every year. 

Title: Ho Ho Homicide

Author: Kaitlyn Dunnett

 

Chapters: 15

Pages: 294

Genre: cozy mysteries

Rating: 4 stars

Liss and Dan Runkin

Five years after Vampire bones and treacle scones

A Christmas mystery sort of. It also happened to be my least favorite of the series but it is still a cute winter read. 

Title: Finding Father Christmas

 

Author: Robin Jones Gunn

Series: Father Christmas Book 1

 

Pages: 176

Genre: Christmas

Rating: 3 stars

Even though I love Robin Jones Gunn’s books I didn’t really like this one but it was still a cute Christmas read. 

Review of Bagpipes, Brides and Homicides

Title: Bagpipes, Brides and Homicides

Author: Kaitlyn Dunnett

Series: A Liss MacCrimmon mystery

 

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4 ½ stars

Enjoyable read 

Review of Scotched

Title: Scotched

Author: Kaitlyn Dunnett

Series: A Liss MacCrimmon

 

Chapters: 15 plus epilogue

Pages: 263

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Rating: 4 stars

     Is the fifth book in A Liss MacCrimmon mystery it was  enjoyable  mystery with a twist. Still a good read. 

Review of The Corpse Wore Tartan

Title: The Corpse Wore Tartan

Author: Kaitlyn Dunnett

Series: A Liss MacCrimmon Scottish Mystery

 

Chapters: 19

Pages: 310

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4 stars

                The Corpse Worn Tartan is the fourth Liss Mystery. This one involves the hotel that Liss’s boyfriend’s family owns and a Burns night supper. It basically is a murder mystery play. I am pretty sure that this one was my favorite so far.

     I enjoy the A Liss MacCrimmon Scottish Mysteries. That’s because it is a cozy mystery that even though there’s murder and crimes in them it doesn’t describe the crime or murder. 

Review of A Wee Christmas Homicide

Title: A Wee Christmas Homicide

Author: Kaitlyn Dunnett

Series: A Liss MacCrimmon Scottish mystery

 

Chapters: 19

Pages: 278

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Rating: 4 stars

A Wee Christmas Homicide is the third book in the A Liss MacCrimmon Scottish Mystery. In this mystery it involves Christmas shopping, teddy bears, and murder. I enjoyed it. I especially liked learning about the Scottish Christmas traditions. It seems to me that every where Liss goes a mystery always follows her or finds her.  There are only three books left as of now from me to read in the series. 

Review of Scone Cold Dead

Title: Scone Cold Dead

Author:  Kaitlyn Dunnett

Series: A Liss MacCrimmon

 

Chapters: 18

Pages: 266

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4 ½ stars

      Scone Cold Dead is the second book in the Liss MacCrimmon mystery series.  Liss has gotten her former dancing troop Strathspey to come to her hometown to perform a show. In the process Liss lands right smack in the middle of another mystery.

      I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I did the first book in the series, but it was a good read.  Unlike the first book I was able to figure out who done it before the end of the book, before Liss even figured it out.  I think that is what made it less enjoyable.  But it was still a good book. I am also looking forward to reading the other books in the series. 

Review of Kilt Dead

Title: Kilt Dead

Author: Kaitlyn Dunnett

Series: A Liss MacCrimmon Mystery

 

Chapters: 20

Pages: 281

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4 stars

     Liss has given up a career as a professional dancer after a career ending injury. She is staying in her hometown of Moose and working at her aunts Scottish store. However Liss in encounter’s a dead body and the police think that she is the one who killed her neighbor.  Liss has to play decetive in order to clear her name before it’s too late.

     Kilt Dead is the first book in the Liss MacCrimmon mysteries by Kaitlyn Dunnett. I enjoyed it, the book kept me guessing till the very end. There were a few cuss words in the book, but not many. For a mainstream mystery it was a relatively clean read, but there were a few scenes where things were implied to have happened, but no details were given.