St. Patrick’s Day Reads
St. Patrick’s Day Reads: Books with Green Covers
By: Brittany Shields
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Today is the day of green things. So why not read a book with a green cover?!
Here’s some options to get you started.
If you really want to get colorful, check out my Read the Rainbow post and read a book with a cover of every color!
The Atlantis World (The Origin Mystery #3) by A.G. Riddle
Genre: Science Fiction
A discovery of the secrets of the human race. This series reads like a movie. Historical events and scientific theories are incorporated into this sci-fi thriller.
Cultivating Compassion: Practical Advice as You Walk a Friend Through a Season of Loss by Lynne Hoeksema
Genre: Christian Living
This is a short and practical resource on helping a grieving friend. Speaking from her own experience with losing her husband, Hoeksema offers encouragement and advice for all-too common seasons of loss.
Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card
Genre: Fantasy/YA
I loved Card’s book Ender’s Game and this one is great too! With a smart and dry sense of humor, Card shows his mastery of dialogue, wit, and character relationships. A seemingly normal world with a boy with a very special micro-power on a rescue mission.
Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul by Hannah Anderson
Genre: Christian Living
Each chapter talks about a different aspect of humility and our proper position before the Lord. For the gardeners out there, she also incorporates a plant/gardening illustration for each chapter as well.
Echo Island by Jared C. Wilson
Genre: YA/Mystery
Four boys return to their island from the mainland after a short camping trip to find the island deserted. Family and friends are gone. No electricity. Cars and batteries don't work. Where did the people go? What's going on?
An allegory with many discussion points.
The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga #3) by Andrew Peterson
Genre: Fantasy/YA
“When it rages long enough, hate doesn’t need a reason. It burns for the sake of its own heat and devours whatever, or whomever, is set before it.”
This is a great series with suspense, humor, and allegory! Read from the beginning- can also be read aloud to kids. Here’s the Goodreads summary:
‘Once, in a cottage above the cliffs on the Dark Sea of Darkness, there lived three children and their trusty dog Nugget. Janner Igiby, his brother Tink, their crippled sister Leeli are gifted children as all children are, loved well by a noble mother and ex-pirate grandfather. But they will need all their gifts and all that love to survive the evil pursuit of the venomous Fangs of Dang who have crossed the dark sea to rule the land with malice and pursue the Igibys who hold the secret to the lost legend and jewels of good King Wingfeather of the Shining Isle of Anniera.’
Singularity by Steven James
Genre: Suspense/Christian Fiction
"We are broken gods, fallen princes, with animal instincts and divine desires. Incongruous."
In this book, the issues are Artificial Intelligence, robotics, what rights would AI have if we have the ability to insert consciousness into it, what is the difference between AI and humans, and what does it mean to be human?
Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
If I had just one word to describe this book it would be ‘dubious.’
There is much doubt and suspicion throughout the whole book. We must decide what and who is trustworthy and what/who is unreliable and misleading. Who has the secrets and who is connected to who?
The Falcon (Nina Guerrera #3) by Isabella Maldonado
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
Goodreads Summary: Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her FBI team are called in to investigate a string of disappearances as a predator stalks the grounds of an elite university. They piece together clues revealing the dark mind of a killer compelled to fully conquer his victims before they die using a combination of behavioral psychology, Stockholm Syndrome, and Falconry techniques to control his captives.
[Review Forthcoming… this is on my TBR]
Damaged Intentions (Abby Mullen Thriller #2) by Mike Omer
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
A great sequel to book one with the continuation of Abby Mullen investigating the cult she escaped from, but the driving plot of this book is a group of conspiracy theorists holding students hostage at the school Abby’s daughter goes to.
A Desperate Place by Jennifer Greer
Genre: Mystery/Crime
Similar to Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli and Isles series we have a relationship between Whit (a reporter) and Riggs (a medical examiner). It follows crimes from two different perspectives and ways of investigating.Not necessarily a 'non-stop thrill ride' as annotated on the cover, but it was a compelling journey to find the truth and the added reality of the teratomas was disgustingly interesting— google this and if you can’t handle it, maybe pass on the book.
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