Wolves Among Us: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)Shades of Salem Witch Trials! This historic novel so scared me, that I actually had to put it down and walk away. Of course, I did pick it back up and finish reading it. I am so very thankful that I live in the 21st Century and not the 16th.
I quickly connected to the protagonist, Mia, and her sickly child, Alma. What a heavy load of problems Mia bears. She's married to hard-to-please Bjorn, the stern sheriff and cares for his bedridden mother. Even the ladies of the small village shun her. This gives Mia a very lonely existence. I hurt for her. As the plot unfolds, I feared for her.
An extensive Author's Note section, along with Discussion Questions and Supernatural Housekeeping are all included at the end of the novel.
Thank you to Bonnie at Christian Fiction Blog Alliance and David C. Cook for my copy.

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This richly imagined tale takes readers to a tiny German town in the time of "the burnings," when pious and heretic alike became victims of witch-hunting zealots. When a double murder stirs up festering fears, the village priest sends for help. But the charismatic Inquisitor who answers the call brings a deadly mix of spiritual fervor and self-deceptive evil. Under his influence, village fear, guilt, and suspicion of women take a deadly turn. In the midst of this nightmare, a doubting priest and an unloved wife—a secret friend of the recently martyred William Tyndale—somehow manage to hear another Voice…and discover the power of love over fear.

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Romeo and Leila & The Enigma of Time Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is not my cup of tea, but I don't often drink tea. It turns out to be surprisingly tasty.
I prefer reading hard science fiction with its technology and characters solidly based in the real world. This book is solidly based in fantasy.
To me it seems more in the genre of magical realism than sf. There is almost no technology involved, and what there is is more like a parody of our actual technology. The science, like almost every other aspect of the book, is explained in a way that gleefully creates more questions than answers.
The writing has a lilting, kind of eccentric, poetic quality. It's hypnotic, filled with compellingly absurd phrases, characters, situations, and occurrences. Readers who allow it to carry them away will find themselves wrapped in a sometimes spooky, often funny, enjoyably strange dream.

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Seven seductive Middle Eastern women join a party on a Western Federation cruiser which floats on the Persian Gulf. The women turn out to be narrators of a science fiction story. They mesmerize the crew and draw a dark picture of the future which handles a fictive nuclear war between Iran and USA : "After the explosion of the first atomic bomb, the question is raised if it is possible to turn back time itself?"

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Twilight in Babylon Review

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(More customer reviews)A Treasure Trove of Historical Fact
In this fourth book of her trilogy the no less improbable Suzanne Frank leads us in her delightfully non-linear way to Sumer where we witness twilight for Chloe and Cheftu as civilization is just dawning.
Some may be saddened at this last novel but the time travelling couple become again the vehicle which allows us to see and touch Sumer as it must have been just as it was giving novelists their raison d'etre: written language. And while she pays homage to that event she deftly weaves a wealth of historically accurate fact into the fabric of this adventure.
I remember a reader taking her to task in an earlier novel because Cheftu addressed Chloe as "vous" and not the familiar "tu"and had to chuckle that, of course, Ms. Frank was correct in that there was no familiar "tu" in Cheftu's lifetime, only in Chloe's.
Similarly here we are immersed in a culture awash in beer, like some early keg party only to realize that beer was the preferred beverage with which people had a fixation much like the French have today with their wine. And while we may want to find this "obsession" laughable we should not take Ms. Frank too lightly for she is just leading us down the primrose path, infusing each scene with as much historical flavoriing as practical even if we fail to notice.
And how do we know any of this? Because they wrote it down; on clay documents protected in clay envelopes which happen to be on display today in the British Museum (Room 56).
Suzanne Frank's passion and respect for historical research is everywhere in this novel. It's in the details, if you look, and there are lots of them. Good book.

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