Invitation caught my eye because three of the four authors are among my favourite writers, and I’ve heard good things about the fourth. Bill Myers, Frank Peretti, Angela Hunt and Alton Gansky are friends who decided to try something new together. Each of them were to write as one of the characters in the series, […]
Delilah: Treacherous Beauty by Angela Hunt
Out of the women in Angela Hunt’s Dangerous Beauty trilogy, I was the least interested in Delilah. Her story and Samson’s is well-known and, in some parts, strange. Samson is a womanizer who breaks all his vows and seems to deserve the repeated betrayals he receives at Delilah’s hands. Yet, just as she did in Esther and […]
Bathsheba: Reluctant Beauty by Angela Hunt
It’s been kinda fun this month teaching the girls about history while reading a historical fiction novel. Some of the details that have come up in our history textbooks have made me appreciate the depth of research Angela Hunt puts into all of her novels but especially into her Dangerous Beauty series. Bathsheba: Reluctant Beauty […]
Esther: Royal Beauty by Angela Hunt
The story of Esther is one of the most fascinating stories in the Bible. It is the fairy tale of the Old Testament—a classic rags to riches story of an ordinary girl who becomes queen of her country after winning a beauty pageant. Several authors have already explored this story through fiction, but I was […]
Angela Hunt Launches Hunt Haven Press
One of my favourite authors is Angela Hunt. I grew up reading her novels and even met her at an ICWF Fall Conference. I’ve always been impressed by how many books she’s written (over 100) and how many different genres she’s tackled (everything from Biblical to contemporary to children’s fiction and nonfiction). Recently, when I […]
Book Review: The Offering by Angela Hunt
I love fiction that delves into motherhood and tackles all the emotions we feel as moms—or the issues we face. Some of my favourite novels about moms include Come Sunday, which looks at the loss of a child, and The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, which tackles the issue of special needs children. Angela Hunt’s latest novel […]
Book Review: Five Miles South of Peculiar by Angela Hunt
Residents of Jackson County, Florida, held their breath the morning of July 3, 1968, when old man Caldwell took to his bed complaining of a monstrous headache. As the clock struck two, he sat up, sneezed, wheezed, and lay back down, expiring before his head hit the pillow. ~opening paragraph, Five Miles South of Peculiar […]
The Fine Art of Insincerity by Angela Hunt
One disadvantage of being a Canadian book reviewer is the time it takes a book to travel from the publisher in the States to my mailbox in Canada. I’m not quite sure why it takes books so long to cross the border, but several times I’ve received books for review just before the review is […]
