Before the Dawn

Looking for a fast uplifting read that makes you feel fortunate about your lot in life? It's about Leah, an unlikely Relief Society President in the early 30s during the heart of the Depression. I love Leah because I identify with her character so much! I love Dean Hughes. He writes with exact historical accuracy and is an amazing writer. I love the way he thinks! This book I will read again.

It takes about 250 pages to even know what the book is about- a time machine and a river???- and I am not looking forward to the year wait until next summer when the next book comes out, but it was intriguing and kept me glued and then left me hanging... until next year! So to the avid Twighlight readers, this might be a good one for you, I think it was the author of Twighlight who reccommended it on her blog. Magnum is a first time author and her style of wrighting is a little rigid and her character's dialouge seems too scripted; maybee her next one will be a little more refined. I am interested enough to seek it out next summer.

Saboteur

I loved this novel, the only thing missing is a Volume Number 2. Not that it needs it, but because Hughes makes you fall in love with the story wishing it would never end. I am a sucker for Historical Fiction. I was going to minor in History, but found myself a little bored with the dry way it comes across in a classroom. Hughes spends a lot of time and effort to get things Historically correct. It's like you are listening to your Grandfather (if he was an amazing storyteller like mine was) tell the stories of his youth. Seeing World War Two through the characters eyes as if they actually lived it. Military Strategy, Battles, Home life all described as accurately as possible through an amazing story that will thrill you, make you cry, fall in love, and learn the history of our Country in a unique, interesting, and fun way.

Where Are You Now?

Okay, so I picked out this novel by Mary Higgins Clark because I so thouroughly enjoyed Just Take My Heart. This one, however was a let down. It's about a young man named Mack who mysteriously went missing when it seemed he had his whole life ahead of him. He vanished except for one thing... He calls every mother's day. The novel is his little sister's personal search to find him, but she gets herself in over her head. The ending was too sensational and the suspence lacked the momentum to carry me through the novel. I found myself annoyed by the ending and this will be the last novel I pick up of Clark's for a while