fantasy
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Book ReviewsPercy Jackson pushes homosexuality now too
My first involved interaction with the Greek myths was in university, as a required classics course. But the professor wasn’t all that interested in the…
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Book ReviewsThe Unlikely Intrusion of Adams Klein
by John Greco 2025 / 288 pages Rating: good/GREAT/gift Adams Klein is a pretty ordinary 14-year-old, except, maybe for that “s” at the end of…
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Articles – BooksWhy Reformed theology writes better fantasy
Reformed theology – with its doctrines of Man’s total depravity, God’s covenant, His sovereignty, and costly grace – gives fantasy writers what most Christian fantasy…
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FamilyThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Family / Drama 2005 / 125 minutes Rating: 8/10 For those who have not read the C.S. Lewis book of the same name, this takes…
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Adult fictionThe Dark Harvest Trilogy
1. The Dark Faith 2. The Scarlet Bishop 3. The Threefold Cord 304-368 pages each / 2012-2014 by Jeremiah W. Montgomery Rating: Good/Great/GIFT ***** I…
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Book listsChristian fantasy after Tolkien: a Top 10
If your kids are just gobbling books, and have already worked their way through all 7 books of Lewis’s Narnia, then what’s next? If you’ve…
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Book ReviewsUrchin of the Riding Stars
by M.I. McAllister 2021 / 299 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This was so good I just had to read bits of it out loud to my…
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Book ReviewsThe Charlatan’s Boy
by Jonathan Rogers 2010/ 305 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I love love loved Jonathan Rogers’ Wilderking Trilogy, a children’s fantasy series that echoes the story of David…
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Book ReviewsMedallion
by Dawn L. Watkins 1985 / 213 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give This will be a fun one for Grade 4/5 boys. Young Trave plans to be king one…
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DramaThe Hobbit: the film trilogy
AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 2012 / 169 min (also a 182-min version) Rating: 8/10 THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 2013 / 161 min (also a 186-min version) Rating: 8/10…
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Book ReviewsIn the Hall of the Dragon King
by Stephen Lawhead 1982 / 370 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give This is an old-fashioned fantasy tale, with a loosely Christian underpinning. Quentin is a young man…
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Book ReviewsOn the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
by Andrew Peterson 284 pages / 2008 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT My wife hasn’t read this book, but she enjoyed it too. As I made my way…
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Book ReviewsThe Bark of the Bog Owl
by Jonathan Rogers 2014 / 248 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Our hero, Aidan Errolson, is a medium-sized twelve-year-old with dreams that are far bigger. When we…
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Book ReviewsBell Mountain
by Lee Duigon 267 pages / 2010 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Jack and Ellayne are two children on a mission from God: they are going to ring the…
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Book ReviewsThe Hobbit: an illustrated edition of the fantasy classic
by J.R.R. Tolkien adapted by Charles Dixon illustrated by David Wenzel 1990 / 133 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT There’s a hierarchy so unfailingly true it could…
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Adult fictionDawn of Wonder
by Jonathan Renshaw 2015 / 708 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This might, at first glance, seem to be your typical boy-meets-girl, boy-dares-girl-to-jump-off-of-a-thousand-foot-high-bridge-into-the-icy-cold-stream-below-and-girl-shows-him-up-by-actually-doing-it story. And, as many a…
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Book ReviewsThe Green Ember
by S.D. Smith 365 pages / 2015 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give “Rabbits with swords” – it’s an irresistible combination, and all I had to say to get…
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Book lists100+ read-aloud suggestions…
I’ve been reading out loud to my girls since they were born, and now that they are older we’re still reading, ending each day with…
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AnimatedThe Lord of the Rings animated “trilogy”
Peter Jackson wasn’t the first to put J.R.R. Tolkien’s books on film. Two decades before the first of Jackson’s live-action/CGI films hit theaters, three animated versions were…
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Book ReviewsBrave Ollie Possum
by Ethan Nicolle 373 pages / 2019 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give If you were ever a scaredy-cat, or if you might have one in your family, this…
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Adult fictionThe Winter King
by Christine Cohen 351 pages / 2019 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give 15-year-old Cora lives in a time of horses, and swords, and meat pies. It’s also a…
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Book ReviewsThe City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau 2003 / 270 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give 12-year-old Doon wants to save his city but he’s got quite the problem because he has no…
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Adult fictionThe Seraph’s Path
by Neil Dykstra 2019 / 475 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Maybe I should have gotten someone else to review this, what with me sharing the same…
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Articles – BooksAfter Lewis and Tolkien
A conversation about Christian Fantasy with Bell Mountain author Lee Duigon It’s hard to believe but C.S. Lewis has been gone from this earth long…
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Book lists5 fun preteen/teen fiction titles
Today’s library is very different from the one we all grew up with, and nowhere is that difference more noticeable than in the teen section….
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Book ReviewsTo read or not to read: Harry Potter, Narnia & The Lord of the Rings
I was only eight years old when I first stumbled across C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. It was 1956 and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons were often…