The Force: Science Fiction - and giant book GIVEAWAY!

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    I love reading Christian fiction, so I try my best to provide you with a number of books each month written by Christian authors - with biblical worldviews.

    Why?

    It's all about what we are exposing our minds to.  (Yes, I know we shouldn't end sentences with a preposition.  Please don't nag me.) 

    Reading a continuous stream of secular books that often impose anti-biblical values on the reader can end up doing damage to our souls. 

    Today, I'd like to let you know about a new book written by the mother/daughter team, Joyce and Alexandra Swann:  The Force.

    Before I began reading The Force, I first read through the Swanns' first science fiction book in this series:  The Fourth Kingdom.  Once I had finished that, I was ready for The Force.  Can this new book be read as a stand-alone?  Sure.  But you will definitely understand more of what's going on if you're able to read The Fourth Kingdom first.

About the book:

    Someone is murdering the world’s most beautiful women—over and over and over.

    When Jarrod and Joshua Sinclair are called in to consult with the FBI about the Hollywood Starlet murders, they immediately suspect their old nemesis, Josef Helmick, of creating clones of famous women for a visiting Saudi prince. Wasting no time, they hire retired detective Fred Kowalski and send him to Dubai to uncover Josef’s base of operations and build a case against him for the murders.

    But Fred soon discovers that Helmick Enterprises is harboring a secret much darker than human trafficking. Fred must stop Helmick before he resurrects an ancient, diabolical Force in order to bring the entire human race under his control.

My review of The Force:

    I'm not always a science fiction fan, but I do enjoy fictional works on genetics and cloning.  It's always fascinated me!  Don't ask me why.  :)  Reading The Fourth Kingdom was hard for me, because although I was very interested in the theme of the book, there were some aspects of the writing that caused me to almost put the book down and not finish it.  Lengthy monologues by a key character would continue page after page, with no interaction between characters.  Lectures in the middle of a fiction book?  It doesn't seem right - and it didn't feel right, either.  It just wasn't my style.  There were also editing issues with grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

    So...how was book 2 in this series?  Well, from page 1 of The Force, I could tell that the authors had worked very hard to remedy some of those problems. 

    Even if they hadn't, I would have hardly been able to put down this book.  The Force is a powerfully written book encompassing so many of the questions in the scientific community about cloning.  It was action-packed, flowed well, and contained only a couple of monologues that were much shorter than those in book 1.  There were a few basic editing problems (grammar, punctuation, spelling), but overall The Force was much better written than The Fourth Kingdom.  If you enjoy science ficiton, you'll love The Force!

About the authors:

    Joyce and Alexandra Swann are mother and daughter. Joyce homeschooled her ten children from the first grade through master’s degrees. She is a well-known author and speaker on the subject of homeschooling. For nearly a decade she was a popular column-ist for "Practical Homeschooling Magazine". She now blogs regularly on parenting, homeschooling, and Christian lifestyle issues.

    Joyce and Alexandra have co-authored two other novels, The Fourth Kingdom, and The Twelfth Juror, both of which were published in 2010.

    Joyce’s personal story of her experiences raising and educating her family is chronicled in Looking Backward: My Twenty-Five Years as a Homeschooling Mother, published in February of 2011.

    Her novel, The Warrior, which tells the story of one woman’s ten-year prayer vigil for a man she has never met, was released in May of 2012. She is also the author of two children’s books, Tales of Pig Isle and The McAloons, which began as stories that she told to entertain her grandchildren.
   
    Alexandra is author of No Regrets: How Homeschooling Earned me a Master’s Degree at Age Sixteen and Writing for Today. She has been self-employed for over fourteen years and was the 2011 Chairwoman of the Board of the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She writes a regular blog, Paying for Protection, about the consequences of over-regulation and over-reaching government. Her novel, The Planner, which is the prequel to The Chosen, was published in June of 2012.

Now for the GIVEAWAY!

We are excited to help Frontier 2000 Media celebrate the release of The Force by Alexandra and Joyce Swann with a super cool giveaway for book lovers! Two prizes will be awarded, one containing 11 awesome books and the other with five books. Total value of this giveaway is $185! Woohoo!

We would like to thank the following authors for their generous donations to these giveaways! Be sure to stop by their websites to say thank you!

William Struse
Tricia Goyer
Sarah Sundin 
Eisley Jacobs
Gwen Toliver
Carey Jane Clark

To enter the giveaway, use the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post. Two winners will be selected and announced by noon ET on November 25, 2013. U.S. residents age 18 and older only please. Other Terms and Conditions can be found in the Rafflecopter.

Book Lover's Giveaway #1 ($120 value)

The Force by Alexandra and Joyce Swann

The Fourth Kingdom by Alexandra and Joyce Swann

The 13th Enumeration by William Struse

The 13th Prime by William Struse

Love Finds You in Glacier Bay Alaska by Tricia Goyer

On Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin

Dragons of the Deep by Eisley Jacobs

Blink of a Dragon by Eisley Jacobs

Born to be a Dragon by Eisley Jacobs

Seed Sowers by Gwen Toliver

After the Snow Falls by Carey Jane Clark 

Book Lover's Giveaway #2 ($65 value)

The Force by Alexandra and Joyce Swann

The Fourth Kingdom by Alexandra and Joyce Swann

The 13th Enumeration by William Struse

The 13th Prime by William Struse

Love Finds You in Glacier Bay Alaska by Tricia Goyer

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