Power Released!

My third full-length novel, book #3 in a series of futuristic speculative fiction with a Christian worldview, is now available to purchase in 3 formats on Amazon: Kindle, paperback, and hardcover! I’m so excited to see this series continue! See synopsis below and go here to buy the book.

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Power

For as long as Alexander Surett can remember, he’s planned to be a bounty hunter like his dad, bringing in criminals to stand trial. And when he gets his first taste of Power usage, he knows that the Power is what he will use to chase those criminals. But during the years-long training on the way to that goal, he stumbles onto an innocuous item from his dad’s past that leads him to question everything he’s been told. Soon it becomes clear that his family’s past tragedy is only the tip of the iceberg.

He brings his unwitting training partner, a Cleric named Leahna Isa, along on his search for answers, and together they attract the unwanted attention of the leader of a band of mercenaries. Rusalki Morano doesn’t like to be told “no,” and the consequences will have devastating effects on both Alexander’s and Leahna’s families—and all of Pithea.


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Book Review: A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons

A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons
How to Train Your Dragon #6
by Cressida Cowell
read by David Tennant

My rating: 2 / 5
Genre: Middle grade fantasy

In order to prove that his group of Vikings are better burglars than another group, Hiccup and his friends sneak into a Viking library to steal a book. Things go wrong, of course, in fairly predictable ways by this point in the series. Unfortunately, there’s not enough new here to make it particularly enjoyable. Hiccup is ridiculed, as always, but manages to pull off the unexpected, as always. This book feels more like the author is trying to get a not terribly subtle message across—books are important. Libraries are important. Banning books is bad. And alongside that message, she feels the need to talk about a woman’s breasts more than I’d be comfortable with in adult book, and this book is for kids! The leader of a mostly friendly rival tribe is named Big-Boobied Bertha, and she’s been in several of the previous books as well. I was a bit taken aback by the name before, but she had a pretty small role in the past and I guess I passed it off as a British quirk. In this book, not only is she involved a lot more, her “gigantic” breasts are described and referenced several times. It is absolutely unnecessary and just plan ridiculous in a book meant for 10-12 year olds. So though I’m probably in the minority of being bothered by this, let this be a warning for those who are like me. Maybe skip this one.

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