Christian Book Reviews and Author Interviews

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might...Read Full Story

Our favorite PI, PJ Sugar, is back for her third round of trouble in Licensed for Trouble by Susan May Warren. If you've been around WordVessel for any length of time, you know I'm a huge Susan May Warren fan and head-over-heels-in-love with her wacky PI wannabe, PJ Sugar. (If you're new to the PJ Sugar series, you can read my reviews of Nothing But Trouble - Book 1 and Double Trouble - Book 2.) As much as I loved PJ books one and two, Licensed For Trouble is by far my favorite. With a...Read Full Story

Please help me welcome author Betsy St. Amant! Here's her bio: Betsy St. Amant lives in north Louisiana, has a strong penchant for polka dot shoes and chocolate, and is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers group. Betsy is multi-published through Steeple Hill and has also been published in Christian Communicator magazine and Praise Reports: Inspiring Real Life Stories of How God Answers Prayer. One of her short stories, 'Kickboxing or Chocolate', appears in a Tyndale compilation...Read Full Story

How did you come to be a writer? Falling in love with writing in the fifth grade was the easy part. I adored my writing teacher. She always read the best compositions aloud in class. The way she cradled them in her hands told me they were treasures. I worked extremely hard to please her; to hear my words read aloud—but I was never chosen. A few years later, we moved to Delavan, Wisconsin. I wrote a composition for my language arts teacher and she told me there was no way I could have written...Read Full Story

I'm delighted to welcome author Jill Williamson back to WordVessel. Jill, tell us about your latest book. To Darkness Fled is the second book in the Blood of Kings trilogy. It’s about Achan, a young man who wanted to become a knight, and Vrell, a girl who is dressed as a boy to hide from the man who wants to marry her. Book two picks up where By Darkness Hid left off. Here is the back cover copy for To Darkness Fled (Blood of Kings, book 2): They have no choice. Chased by an evil prince...Read Full Story