Dogwood

I brought an advanced readers copy of this book back from ICRS (the International Christian Retail Show)along with a dozen other books. Knowing that I wasn't going to read it anytime soon, I gave members of my writers group the opportunity to read it first. The first person to grab the book was an 8......more

It was okay. I felt the ending was rushed, but also a complete mind blow with what happened! I liked that throughout the book, there wasn't much, if any, details that would have hinted to the ending of the book.......more

Chris has a quote by Jackson Browne in the front of the book that speaks volumes about this story “I think that life is full of pain…It’s painful for everybody…Growing is painful. But I think that the only way through it , is through it…and anything that helps is a blessing”. The author shows his ch......more

This book suck you in right from the beginning. It's a murder mystery with a spiritual element. There is a lot of talk about God, what He wants for one of the characters, etc, to the point where it made me uncomfortable. I was rolling along with the story, and then suddenly at the end of the book th......more

Wow. Very rarely do I have to sit back and have time to mentally process what I’ve read in a fiction book. When I finished this book, that’s what I needed. I feel like a review would ruin so much of this one, so instead I’ll just say that I had difficulty stopping while reading and I have never read......more