Book Reviews Reloaded: A Cry From the Dust

This article first appeared on East Niagara Post on February 10, 2015. It is repeated here as I work to put all my book reviews in one place. They will be posted on Thursdays or Fridays and only be altered from the original in that I will add publisher information and pages. Hopefully, by revisiting these reviews, other people might find a book they'd like to pick up for their own enjoyment.

A Cry From the Dust -- Carrie Stuart Parks
Thomas Nelson Publishing
384 Pages

Most of the time when I finish reading a book, I don’t write the review immediately. I generally give it a couple of days to let the ideas percolate just a bit before I commit words to paper. With my latest completed novel, I couldn’t wait to write the review.  A Cry From the Dust by Carrie Stuart Parks grabbed my attention like no other book that I’ve read in the last six months. Part of it could be its historical fiction. (I like history.)

Literally the Best Reviews: The Bones Will Speak

The Bones Will Speak -- Carrie Stuart Parks

Thomas Nelson Publishers

331 Pages

Just over one year ago, I reviewed the first book in the Gwen Marcy series, A Cry in the Dust, by Carrie Stuart Parks. I thought it was a magnificent debut novel that brought us an unlikely heroine. Parks explored a piece of nearly forgotten Mormon history and brought it to the reader in an amazing “what it” scenario. At the end of my review, I eagerly anticipated her follow up, The Bones Will Speak. Well, fans, here is that long-awaited sequel.