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Tilly
“Written in 1986, Frank E. Peretti’s novelette Tilly may feel melodramatic to today’s readers, but remains a tearful tale of brokenness and redemption.”
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“Although indebted to a classic, The Wonderland Trials is inventive and colorful in its own right, abundantly able to charm and to intrigue.”
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“Societal intrigue plus steampunk flair and a dash of romance help make Emma Buenen’s Rise of the Earthborn a solid extra-biblical adventure.”
—Lorehaven on Jun 17, 2022

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—Lorehaven on Jun 10, 2022

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/ fall 2019 / Reviews
Author:
Sharon Hinck
Ages:
adult young adult
Genres:
fantasy
BookTags:
arts dance islands The Dancing Realms series
Publisher:
Enclave Publishing

Featured Review: Hidden Current

Sharon Hinck’s fantasy dances to the rhythm of our Creator’s heart.
Lorehaven Review Team · fall 2019 · 1 comment

When your every foot movement and gesture literally controls your world, people will expect you to avoid any false move. But for dancer Calara Blue, her trained pursuit of perfection has come at a terrible cost.

At the center of Calara’s world, the all-powerful Order has called the best dancers to use their natural abilities to stabilize their island. Without dancers who command the storms and the island’s very position, the island and its ecosystem will drift out of control. So dancers like Calara have pledged their lives to fulfill this high calling.

Then, just as Calara reaches her goal, she discovers that, just maybe, the island does not want to be controlled. Instead, she is forced into fleeing her rigid lifestyle with its every rule and religious belief that she has spent years helping to enforce. Accompanied by a mysterious fisherman, Calara hunts for her own past and for the truth about her beautiful yet dehumanized profession—and its original purpose.

Hidden Current introduces The Dancing Realms three-book series, and author Sharon Hinck draws readers into this unique and colorful world, whose quaking and wandering island itself matches the tumult of Calara’s doubts and challenges.

Although her story hits a few familiar steps, its footwork-based natural-law magic is both fantastically original and well-grounded in our reality. In fact, Hinck crafts this ability and its realistic effects based on her own years of teaching dance. This experience shows in every scene, giving tribute to the passion and hard work of dancers. Even more joyously, the story moves well to the rhythm of an organic and necessary theme: the ultimate purpose of creative gifts, in a world that’s guided not by human movers in a disordered Order, but by a divine and prime Mover.

Best for: Teenage readers and older; anyone, male or female, interested in the God-given magic of culture and the arts.

Discern: Some violence described in general terms, including several people who are painfully maimed; chaste romance between man and woman.

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