A Bible Study Devotional/Coloring Journal

Thank you to Tyndale House Publishers for providing me with a complimentary copy of Ruth: Discovering your Place in God's Story in exchange for an honest review. Ruth is one of the Drawn In Bible Study devotional books. 

Included are scripture verses, devotional stories about Ruth, and sections to color. The book is meant for a four week long Bible study about Ruth. Other books in the Drawn In series feature different women of the Bible. This book would be a great devotional for a women's group to enjoy together, as well as a great gift for any woman hoping to grow in her Faith and be closer to God. 

The small paperback size includes 96 pages, and is convenient for traveling or bringing in a handbag to Bible study or wherever one can find a quiet moment to read and study God's word.  

Crisis Shot by Janice Cantore

Thank you to Tyndale House Publishers for providing me with a review copy of Crisis Shot by Janice Cantore. The first installment of The Line of Duty series, Crisis Shot, will be released on September 5, 2017 in paperback form. Having served as a Long Beach police officer herself, Janice Cantore's writing is authentic based on her own past experiences. The characters and the plot line are unique, capturing the readers attention in the beginning and keeping their interest until the final pages.

The story takes place in Long Beach, California to start and then later in Oregon, where the final character, Tess O'Rourke, moves to escape the negative backlash and media portrayal of a police shooting in which she was the officer involved. The book eludes to a possible romantic interest between Tess and handsome sheriff's deputy Steve Logan, wish whom she teams up to solve a double murder in Rogue's Hollow, Oregon. However, there aren't any romantic scenes, leaving the novel very clean and suitable for young teenagers who enjoy police procedural or small-town mysteries. I do hope some actual sparks will fly between Tess and Steve in future novels in the series, however, because they seem like they would make a great pair. Additionally, being in the Christian fiction genre, the language is also very clean, without the profanity that riddles most mass-market mystery/suspense/thrillers these days.

I would recommend this novel for fans of fiction, mystery, suspense, thrillers, and even Christian fiction. My favorite part of the story was the way the residents in Rogue Hollow embraced Tess into their town and welcomed her, even in the midst of the first murder and disappearance in their town in a very long time.