Ember Rising: The Green Ember Book III

*zips lips against spoilers* *realizes I won’t be able to speak at all* *unzips lips* I’ll just have to try to keep the spoilers out because OH MY WORD I went into this blind and was repeatedly gobsmacked by the twists and turns and reveals. O.o. :D The first 60% of the book was sooo slow, but it was......more

This tale delves deeper into the questions of What price will you pay for freedom? At what point are you truly free? Do you know who you are and from where you’ve come? SD Smith truly writes tales that are engaging for children and deeply meaningful for adults. I hope that these stories spark a flam......more

4.5 Stars ✨ “There is no cost too high for doing what is right and no retribution great enough for doing what is wrong. To believe otherwise is to surrender our liberty to lies.” Be still my bunny loving heart! Ember Rising was intense, captivating and gut wrenching but overall, undeniably- the best......more

RTC eventually after I finish reviewing all those other books I have backlogged... XD In the meantime, I think a sufficient review would go something like this: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE......more

Loved it. So did the kids. (And the illustrations, by my respected friend Zach Franzen, were also excellent.) For a good while I was thinking that this book is the Benedict Option for kids—and for adults who dutifully read Dreher's hot-title-of-2017 but whose affections were not fully engaged by his......more