Christian book reviews, Rob Seabrook, Recent Reads

The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom

What a great story. When arriving in heaven, the main character, Eddie, gets to meet five key people whose lives he touched on his…

Biblical fiction, as a genre, creates stories around what we do know of the Bible, filling in gaps, not as an alternative to scripture…

It was so nice to be back in Isabella’s company for another season of relaxation and enjoyment. This is the second book offering us…

Abused . Addicted . Free by Trudy Makepeace, is such a powerful autobiography. It is far from appropriate to write a “book review” as…

I read Believing is Seeing by Michael Guillen, as background research for another project that I am working on, and I am so glad…

I have seen great things about the recently launched second book in this series (The Trials of Isabella M Smugge), and am very keen…

The Christing, by Paul White, was a great find. Paul comes across as being informed and authoritative, wise in fact, but never academic or…

The Gardener’s Daughter, by K A Hitchins, is a story of a young girl, on a roller-coaster of a journey searching for her true…

I have never been a big fan of poetry. I studied it a long time ago at school but was never very inspired by…

I felt like it was time to revisit a classic, by having another read of The Robe by Lloyd C Douglas. It stands the…

This one took me by surprise. The story dives straight in, leaving reader intrigued and focused on the events unfolding. It is well written,…

This is a debut novel from Amada Cox and credit to her for stepping out and applying her superb storytelling abilities to this story….

We read different books in different ways. A novel we may want to binge read, becoming immersed in the story, obsessed with the characters…

I do love it when reading one book leads so naturally on to another, when it opens up your eyes to a story, a…

Reading part one of this book, my instinct was that I shouldn’t be. I felt uncomfortable. I had the feeling of being an intruder…

This book ended very suddenly for me. I got to the end, thinking I still had about a third of the book to go,…

I was at a breakfast meeting recently and the chap I was talking to was just in the throes of changing jobs. His deep…

The Healing is a lovely story, a medieval road trip, which like all road trip stories is a journey of discovery, or in this…

This article was first featured by the publisher, Muddy Pearl, on their web site, back in December 2020, a time when the world of…