What if you found out that your child you thought was dead....might not be? And your ex-wife may have hidden this information from you? Those two questions creates the theme in Recovery Man (Book 6 of the Retrieval Artist Series) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. For the...
Book Review 59: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
by MHill | Feb 1, 2015 | 2015 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
Can a marriage be saved even if you are doing God's will and serving him to the best of your ability? That is the main question I took from reading The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. It's an interesting question that the novel tries to answer. I'm glad...
Book Review 57: Paloma by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Nov 11, 2014 | 2014 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
How well do you know someone? If you find out some damaging information about someone you admired and respected would that change your view of that person? Is justice a zero-sum game? These questions get answered in a surprising fashion from Paloma: Book 5 of the...
Book Review 56: Buried Deep by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Sep 29, 2014 | 2014 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
How do we view death? Do we respect how others view death? Those two questions give Buried Deep by Kristine Kathryn Rusch a thought-provoking theme in the fourth entry of this excellent sci-fi hybrid thriller series. Bones have been discovered beneath the Martian soil...
Book Review 55: Consequences by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Aug 2, 2014 | 2014 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
Miles Flint, a Retrieval Artist, was hired by a prominent couple on the moon colony of Armstrong to find their daughter who has become a Disappeared because of her political activities on several planets. Flint retrieved the daughter and reunited her with the...
Book Review 54: Stone of Fire by JF Penn
by MHill | Jul 19, 2014 | 2014 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
What happens you read a novel that combines an Indiana Jones style of adventure with a well-detailed and chronicled history of early Christianity and mixed with a female protagonist that is a combination of Lara...
Book Review 53: The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
by MHill | Jul 4, 2014 | 2014 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
Sometimes you just know a book is going to be good after reading the first few pages. It is kind of like you know after an interview that you are going to get that job. Or if you are dating someone for the first time and you know that there is potential for a...
Book Review 51: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
by MHill | May 3, 2014 | 2014 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
It has been interesting as a book review blogger to see what books you gravitate towards in posting a review. I have noticed in the couple of years of doing these reviews that you choose some books and some books choose you. That was the scenario for Bel Canto by Ann...
Book Review 50: Why Jesus? by Ravi Zacharias
by MHill | Feb 22, 2014 | 2014 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Nonfiction
I must admit I did not think my first review for 2014 would be a non-fiction book. Since I tend to read more fiction than non-fiction and all my reviews reflect that truth. Anyway, there is always a book that jumps out at you and asks to be read and reviewed. Why...
Book Review 48: Extremes by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
by MHill | Dec 20, 2013 | 2013 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Retrieval Artist Series
What happens when a rogue scientist decides she wants to kill an entire moon city with a virus in order to create her own version of a superhuman race? That question is the basic plot of Extremes by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Extremes is the second novel in the...