The Map Across Time #2 in The Gates of Heaven series by C.S. Lakin Fairy tales can come true…it can happen to you…if you’re young at heart . . . Oh, so fun to be young at heart again and plunge into a saga from “once upon a time,” where characters can follow magical maps, put their feet into glowing impressions, travel back and forth in time, and take advice from talking pigs. Equally enjoyable is relating to the plot as the characters learn, grow, and make personal sacrifices so others can become what they were created to be—sort of…
August 2010 reviews
Someone to Blame by C.S. Lakin Zondervan – October 2010 (Advance reading copy) Small towns have big problems—or so it seems—when a shifty-eyed drifter moves into Breakers, California about the same time as the Moore family, what’s left of them anyway. Matt, Irene, and Casey need a new beginning, but moving to Breakers comes with its own brand of pain and mystery. Thefts, fires, vandalism—who is to blame? The fill-in sheriff can’t seem to get a handle on it. The town’s new pastor doesn’t have any answers. The locals start pointing fingers. The Moores aren’t finding the peace they were…
July 2010 reviews
JEANETTE READS FANTASY! (really?) The Wolf of Tebron – #1 in The Gates of Heaven series By C.S. Lakin AMG/Living Ink Publishers (An Advanced Reader Copy Review) The invitation used as the frontispiece in C.S. Lakin’s allegorical fantasy, The Wolf of Tebron, was surely included just for my benefit. She quotes C.S. Lewis: “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” Having abandoned reading that genre some 30 years ago, I admit I hesitated to reenter that world, even for my friend and fellow editor, Susanne Lakin, and her first published novel, which just happened…
