Jill Williamson's Blog
October 7, 2009
Review by Jill Williamson
Charli, Anna, and Jessica are the best of friends. When a girl names Kristin moves to town, they quickly add her to their group. As soon as Kristin steps foot in the youth group class, church bully Greta makes Kristin her latest target. Just as things start going well for Kristin again, she makes an enemy in Greta's grandmother, Alma!
The four friends have a sleepover and find an old church camp picture with Alma and Kristin's grandmother in it. Turns out the two had...
October 6, 2009
Review by Jill Williamson
Alcoholic Nina Parker has lost everything. But she's just completed her ninety days of rehab and is ready to try and put her life back together. She doesn't know if her ex-husband will ever forgive her or consider mending their relationship. So she takes her teenage daughter to her childhood home to try and rebuild that relationship as well as the one with her parents. But there are horrors in her past she isn't ready to face and a murderer loose in town. Can she...
October 5, 2009
Review by Gretchen Hoffman
I love ballet. Although I never got past intermediate ballet class as a kid, I love going to see dance performances, and if there's a book about dancers, you bet it'll pique my interest.
Gillian Kincade is an upcoming ballet star in the New York dance scene. Jacob Ferrar left the glitz of performing to become an artistic director, focusing on dance that glorifies God. When Jacob offers Gilly the lead in his play, she has to decide where she's supposed to be. But...
September 28, 2009
Review by Gretchen Hoffman
A fifteen-year-old boy shows up along a highway interstate. He doesn't know his name, how to dress himself, and has no memory of what's happened to him. He simply repeats the words, "Nightmare Academy."
This is when teenage detectives Elijah and Elisha come into play. They go undercover as runaways where the boy and his friend were last seen before their disappearance. The twins are quickly headed on the right track, but things change when they too disappear. They...
September 25, 2009
Review by Jill Williamson
Computer genius, Kevin Ramsey broke one too many rules and has landed in an underwater research facility, a prison of sorts. What Kevin doesn't realize is when his past comes after him, this place he calls a prison is the one place that will keep him safe.
This is an awesome, action-packed story that is good clean fun. Stephanie M. E. Gallentine writes a clever mystery that will keep readers wondering what's going to happen next. I like Kevin's character, how he's...
September 24, 2009
Review by Jill Williamson
In 1880 America, socialite Eugenia Cooper's life is all mapped out, including a marriage to rich banker Chandler Dodd. But this lover or western dime novels longs for an adventure of her own. When the opportunity arises, she jumps a train to Denver, Colorado to pose as a governess for ten-year-old Charlotte Beck. What she discovers in Denver, however, can hardly be called a girl. The grubby thing not only wears britches and refuses to bathe, she stole Eugenia's...
September 23, 2009
Donita K. Paul was born in Kansas. She attended college at University of Houston and became a teacher. She taught public school, then home schooled her children, and worked in private schools. She retired early from teaching, but got bored and started writing. After several books, she is now an award-winning author of the DragonKeeper Chronicles. When not writing, she spends a lot of time mentoring writers of all ages. Donita lives in Colorado. Her two grown children make her proud and her...
September 22, 2009
Review by Jill Williamson
Tipper, a young emerlindian woman, has been scrounging to take care of her family estate since her father went missing. Since he father was a renowned sculptor, Tipper had no choice but to sell off his work to pay the bills. But her father returns suddenly, then vanishes again. Then he reappears, then vanishes, then reappears. It seems that Tipper's father is being affected by a portal between two sides of the world. Long ago, he had crafted three sculptures out of a...
September 21, 2009
September 20, 2009
Beck is not thrilled to be taking this survival weekend with her husband Reed. She isn't a big fan of the outdoors, but Reed thinks a wild camping adventure is just the thing to cure her of her nervous stutter. During their first night of camping, a horrifying wail pierced the night. Then something emerges in the darkness and chases them through the forest. The last thing Reed sees is a huge, hairy creature carrying his wife away into the night.
The next morning, a...
