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Interesting Mix Of Rachel Held Evans And Max Lucado. This book is perfect for fans of the late Rachel Held Evans who miss her type of voice and are looki

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An Army Fights On Its Stomach. This was a fascinating look at what it would actually take to have a survivable human colony on Mars (or really on any other planetary body not Earth), starting from the same place Generals h

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More Memoir Than Investigative Expose. At least for me, the current description as I write this review nearly three months before the book's scheduled publication reads more that this book w

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Sometimes People Are More Than What They Seem. This is another excellent

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For this blog tour, we're looking at an excellent book where I found some of the secondary characters even more intriguing than our leads. For this blog tour, we're looking at The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer.

Here's what I had to say on Goodreads:

Evil Isn't Born. It Is Created. Of all the WWII historical fiction books I've read over the years - and at this point, it is a decent number - this is the first to highlight one particular scenario that I'm almost positive has impacted my own life. Specifically, Rimmer does a phenomenal job with one of her characters fighting in WWII and having a particular experience that I'm nearly positive (as much as I can be, given the dearth of records) my own grandfather had a very similar one. She shows how, particularly if the soldier perhaps had already endured some level of trauma, this particular experience (and I'm being intentionally vague to avoid spoilers) could truly push them off the deep end and take them from troubled-yet-manageable to outright evil. But even there, Rimmer takes care to show that there is still hope that the person can be redeemed. Similarly, she also uses another character in a similar mold, but at a much different age and on the opposite side of the war. Rimmer does a great job with making the story hit notes not always seen in this genre, and in the process manages to humanize many types of people that are all too often dehumanized by various groups today. Truly an astounding work, and very much recommended.

After the jump, an excerpt from the book followed by the "publisher details" - book description, author bio, and social media and buy links.

1 Sofie Huntsvill

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In light of last week's US Supreme Court rulings upholding the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and striking down Roe v Wade, and the fact that the middle of this book contains two prognostications for how the US could completely come unglued and each of those decisions last week plays into one of them, I'm doing somet

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You Think You Know Me. This is a con artist/ revenge tale

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Recently, I wrote about the divergent financial realities of readers and authors. In that post, I called out readers who return books for refunds, as those refunds come directly out of the authors' paychecks.

HOWEVER, after I wrote that post, ano

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For this blog tour, we're looking at a fun and witty romantic comedy with heart - where the author seemingly read my review of her last book and corrected the issue in this one. For this blog tour, we're looking at Here For The Drama by Kate Bromley.

Here's what I had to say on Goodreads:

The One Where The Author Seemingly Read My Review Of Her Last Book. I've now had the pleasure of working both of Bromley's books as blog tours, and this book shows her progression as a writer and storyteller - she is able to make a book that is just as fun and witty as her debut, but add in some serious angst and drama to boot, and in turn morph this romantic comedy into a blend of romantic comedy and women's fiction. But the most interesting facet of this book, for this reader looking back at his review of her last one, is my commentary on an unnecessary feature in that first book's epilogue... which gets mirrored (to a degree) in this book's epilogue. It seems that at minimum, Bromley was aware that this issue existed, and actively chose to go a different (and refreshing) route in the epilogue here. Oh, and this is one of those romantic comedies where the dog dang near steals every scene he is in, if not the entire dang show. Truly a fun and witty tale with heart, and very much recommended.

Below the jump, an excerpt followed by the "publisher details" - description, author bio, and social media and buy links.

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Nothing Technically Wrong, Yet SLOW. This is one of those books where there is nothing technically blatan

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