Review of A Sound Among the Trees

A Sweet read.   A Sound Among the Trees is the second  book that I read by Susan Meissner but it will not be the last.  From the first page I was lost in the story. I enjoyed the read but it was not my favorite of Susan's books. 

     After reading A Sound Among the Trees Susan Meissner is still one of my go to authors.  

 "I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review." All thoughts are my own.

Reading this week

Finished

Navy SEAL Rescuer by Shirlee McCoy

Victoria Rebels by Carolyn Meyer

If Fried Chicken Could Fly by Paige Shelton

Books Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay

Currently reading

Fiction

Finally and Forever by Robin Jones Gunn

Trinity: Military War dog by Ronie Kendig

 Waiting for Spring by Amanda Cabot

Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

If Mashed Potatoes Could Dance by Paige Shelton

Non-fiction reading

Hearts on Fire: Stories of Today's Visionaries Igniting Idealism into Action by Jill Iscol

For school 

Public Budgeting Systems by Robert D Lee

Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society by Randall Shelden

The Road to Whatever by Elliott Currie

Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol

Criminal and behavioral Profiling by Curt Bartol

A Street Officer’s Guide to Report Writing by Frank Scalise

Forensic Pattern Recognition by Robert Keppel

Serial Violence by Robert Keppel

Police by John S Dempsey

 On My Kindle

Classic

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Reviewing

Netgalley

Swept Away by Mary Connealy

Home for Good by Jessica Keller

Audio

Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La! By Robin Jones Gunn

Devotional reading

Revelation

 Getting ready to read

Lady Outlaw by Stacy Henrie

The Preacher’s Bride by Laurie Kingery

Doctor to the Rescue by Cheryl Wyatt

Counterfeit Cowboy by Lacy Williams

Rancher’s Refuge by Linda Goodnight

Saving Hope by Margaret Daley

A Sheetcake Named Desire by Jacklyn Brady

Wish You Were Eyre by Heather Vogel Frederick

Life, In Spite of Me: Extraordinary Hope After a Fatal Choice

By Kristen Jane Anderson and Tricia Goyer

Departures by Robin Jones Gunn

Reviews

With school having started back and the work load and reading for school I have; I have barely been able to read for fun. So for a while reviews may me short just giving the basic information about the book, and my rating. I do have a few review books to read, those will be longer like my normal reviews. One book from book sneeze, and another from blogging for books. Plus a few for netgalley.

Some of the books that I have to read for school are not text books but rather interesting to read. I may review those.  I plan to be back on my normal schedule by February. I will still have the weekly post of what I am reading. 

Review of Victoria Rebels

Title: Victoria Rebels

Author: Carolyn Meyer

Series: Young Royals

 

Chapters: 34

Pages: 265

Genre: Teen historical fiction

Rating: 4 stars

     Victoria Rebels follows Queen Victoria from later childhood to the first few years of marriage to Prince Albert. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would but it was still a good read. 

Students across the Seven Seas

Title: When Irish Eyes are Smiling

Author: Suzanne Supplee

Series: S.A.S.S.

Chapters: 13

Pages: 211

Genre: Teen/travel

Rating: 4 stars

     Delk Sincliar wants to escape from her life back home. She thinks that a semester in Ireland is the ticket. Out of all the Students across the Seven seas (S.A.S.S.) books this one is one of my favorites. 

Title:  The Sound of Munich

 

Author: Suzanne Nelson

Series: S.A.S.S

Chapters: 17

Pages: 211

Genre: Teen Travel

Rating: 4 stars

     Siena Bernstien wants to complete her father’s carpe diem list by thanking the man who helped to get her father’s family out of East Berlin. To do that she has go to Germany to do it. 

Title: The Great Call of China

Author: Cynthea Liu

Series: Students across the Seven Seas S.A.S.S

Chapters: 16

Pages: 246

Genre: Teen Travel

Rating: 4 ½ stars

CeCe Charles goes to China to find out who she really is.

Review of To Whisper Her Name

Title: To Whisper Her Name

Author: Tamera Alexander

Series:  A Belle Meade Plantation Novel

 

Pages: 475

Genre: Christian Historical Fiction, Christian Historical Romance

Rating: 5 stars

     Another great read from Tamera Alexander. To whisper Her Name combined two of my favorite things into one awesome novel horses and history. Most of the books that I read come alive to me in many ways. This book was no different. However To Whisper her Name came alive to me in ways that books have never come alive before. I think that it was because I have actually been to Belle Meade and know what the house and grounds look like.

     I feel in love with the characters of Olivia Aberdeen and Ridley Adam Cooper. I cannot wait till the next book in the series. 

Review of Still Lolo

Title: Still Lolo

Author: Lauren Scruggs and the Scruggs Family

Series: no

 

Chapters: 32 plus epilogue

Pages: 248

Genre: Memoir non fiction

Rating: 5 stars

                Still Lolo is a memoir of Lauren Scruggs and her family and the tragedy that changed their lives. But through all of it they didn’t lose their faith. Though Lauren lost her left eye and hand in an accident with an airplane poralle she didn’t let that stop here. She’s uses what she went through to reach young girls. To show them that worth is not in what they look like, but who they are on the inside.

     The book has an introduction by Bethany Hamilton the young surfer who lost her arm to a shark bite. Both young women stood strong in their faith in God. He was there strength when they had none. 

     I enjoyed Lauren’s story and learned a lot. Still Lolo is a heartwarming story of courage, strength, and overcoming life’s struggles.