By Dan Marvin on January 25, 2012
Robin Nolet’s book starts out with a very applicable quote from Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement in the same circle. We never would have chosen these neighbors; life chose them for us. But thrown together on this island of living, we stretch to understand each other, and are invigorated by the stretching. In The Shell Keeper, the island is the Colorado skiing town of Blue River and the shells tossed on the beach are Gwen, Claire, and Del. Thrown together by tides they cannot fathom, the women find a common thread that brings them together as friends despite their best intentions to remain strangers.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Relationships/Women's Lit | Tagged beach fiction, robin p. nolet, the shell keeper, women fiction, women's lit |
By Dan Marvin on January 5, 2012
I selected The Brevity of Roses to review based on the Amazon preview. It intrigued me because it was well written and made me wonder what happened next. I wasn’t disappointed once I read the whole book, it remained well written and hard to put down.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Relationships/Women's Lit | Tagged brevity of roses, linda cassidy lewis, modern romance |
By Dan Marvin on September 23, 2011
Here is the recipe for False Witness: Add two parts action novel to one part John Grisham courtroom drama, mix in vicious Chinese gangsters and deceptive government agencies, sprinkle liberally with Christianity and stir until well mixed. What you end up with is a hot mess, but not in a bad way.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Mystery/Suspense | Tagged Dan Marvin, false witness, ll book review, randy singer, tyndale house publishers |
By Dan Marvin on August 1, 2011
The Raven Girl Kathy Cecala ISBN 978 146 106 6378 CreateSpace Copyright © April 2011 236 Pages Paperback $12.00 Kindle $2.99 You might look at the words “Historical Fiction” and “Young Adult” and decide to pass on The Raven Girl by Kathy Cecala. I almost did, there are other reviewers who typically review the young [...]
Posted in Dan Marvin, Historical, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged Dan Marvin, historical fiction, kathy cecala, the raven girl, YA book review, young adult |
By Dan Marvin on April 2, 2010
There’s good confused, and there’s bad confused. As I read John C. Stipa’s No Greater Sacrifice, I was good confused. If you’ve read any of the Dan Brown novels you know the confused I’m talked about, where the characters leap to the right conclusion time and again when presented with sketchy puzzles while you’re left in the dust.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Dan Marvin, Mystery/Suspense | Tagged john c. stipa, no greater sacrifice |
By Dan Marvin on March 14, 2010
The Curable Romantic is an amusing and insightful look at relationships and the people silly enough to have them. It’s harder to write humor than just about any other genre. Humor has to connect to an absurdity that other people can relate to and find a common ground. Luckily human relationships are imbued with enough silliness that poking fun of them usually strikes a chord.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged katharine miller, the curable romantic |
By Dan Marvin on February 17, 2010
I Miss Your Purple Hair is a good book and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I’ve read 100 page books that felt like they’d never end, but this was a 300+ page book that was over before I knew it. I became invested in the characters and was genuinely curious how they would overcome their dilemma.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Mainstream/Nostalgia | Tagged i miss your purple hair, robert chandler |
By Dan Marvin on January 28, 2010
This Night Wounds Time Shawn Sutherland ISBN 978-0-557-20045-0 158 Pages Paperback $9.68 It took me awhile to warm up to This Night Wounds Time. Shawn Sutherland takes a look into the disappearances of two Texas teens on a night in 1988 in this very personal book. Sutherland attended the same High School a few years [...]
Posted in Dan Marvin, Real Life Drama/Action | Tagged missing persons, shawn sutherland, this night wounds time, unsolved mysteries |
By Dan Marvin on December 20, 2009
I’ll admit it, the frenzy over the 2012 movie convinced me to check out this book. For those of you who have been living under a rock, the year in question was predicted by one of the Mayan calendars to be the last year.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Fiction, Mainstream/Nostalgia | Tagged 2012, christina eichstedt, end times, judy ann eichstedt, mayan calendar, The Last Entries |
