The Boundless Bookshelf

About the Book: ✦ Title: Love Comes Softly ✦ Author: Janette Oke ✦ Genre: Christian Historical Romance ✦ Series: Book #1 of the Love Comes Softly series ✦ Recommend for: Ages 15+ My Personal Rating 3.5/4 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis She ventured west with the man she loved, but in one day her whole world crumbled around her . . . Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge starts west with her adventurous, boyish husband, Clem, seeking to claim land and hoping for good fortune. But when the venture turns suddenly to tragedy, Marty is left alone with her great loss. And coupled with her grief and heartache is the grim reality that there is no way to return home. Clark Davis and his little girl, Missie, are also in great need. Clark's wife has died, leaving him to care to Missie and the farm at the same time. His offer to Marty comes with good intention, but will courage and faith be enough to bring them to true love? 💭 My Thoughts  I wanted a short, simple book that I could read in a day, so I decided to ...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: 10 Questions About Salvation: 30 Devotions for Kids, Teens and Families ✦ Author: Champ Thornton ✦ Genre: Christian nonfiction/devotional ✦ Series: Part of an upcoming series on questions about various biblical topics. ✦ Recommend for: ages 8-14 My Personal Rating 4 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis Everyone has questions about religion, but when you’re young, finding the answers can be difficult. Some books are too complex and others don’t dive deeply enough into the faith topics that matter most to kids and teens. So where can young readers go to grow in their understanding of God and his word? The 10 Questions series invites children ages 8–14 to investigate spiritual questions and provides reliable theological and practical answers on their level. The first book,  10 Questions about Salvation , helps readers find joy, security, and hope in God’s gracious love. Each 10 Questions book presents one main topic, poses 10 vital questions on the topic,...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: Plan to Fail ✦ Author: Perry Elizabeth Kirkpatrick ✦ Genre: Contemporary Spy-Comedy Novella ✦ Series: Book #2 of The Accidental Cases of Emily Abbot (see review for book #1 here !) ✦ Recommend for: ages 13/14 & up My Personal Rating 4 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis They're on a date... but not really. When Brent asks Emily to be his date, she knows it doesn't mean anything. He has a mission requiring him to go undercover at a charity gala. After getting a makeover at his spy agency headquarters, she's ready to assume the role of an opinionated book reviewer from New York. The Gremlin is planning to steal and sell top-secret blueprints from the aerospace company for which he works. When Emily literally bumps into him at the gala, she is able to plant an ICS tracking chip on his glasses. But the Gremlin is smarter than they thought, and ICS finds themselves in the dark about his buyer. With time running out, and the sale imminent, Emily must rely on instinct a...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure ✦ Author: Angela Bell ✦ Genre: Christian Historical Romance (with steampunk elements and nods to Around the World in 80 Days and the Nutcracker) ✦ Series: Currently a standalone novel ✦ Recommend for: Ages 14/15+ My Personal Rating 5 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, England, 1860 When Clara's ex-fiancé begins to spread rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, it's all she can do to protect them from his desperate schemes, society's prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then Clara's Grandfather Drosselmeyer brings on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing. Theodore Kingsley, a shame-chased vagabond haunted by the war, wants a fresh start far from Kingsley Court and the disappointed father who declared him dead. Upon returning to England, Theodore meets clockma...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: Red Rover, Red Rover ✦ Author: Perry Elizabeth Kirkpatrick ✦ Genre: Contemporary Spy-Comedy Novella ✦ Series: Book #1 of The Accidental Cases of Emily Abbot ✦ Recommend for: ages 13/14 & up My Personal Rating 4 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis He makes terrible coffee, but he sure is good in a car chase! Emily Abbott is working hard as a coffee barista in downtown Phoenix, keeping one eye on her tiny college fund and the other on the mysterious new guy with his profound lack of coffee-making skills. Just when she thinks they might be getting the hang of working together, she's abruptly thrust into his world of espionage and danger. Brent Peterson, aka Agent Nighthawk, needs her help protecting a defecting enemy spy and keeping the information he carries out of the wrong hands. But she's just a barista—what can she do? Much more than she thinks. 💭 My Thoughts  This was such a fun read! It was quick (read it in like an hour), exciting, and just overall super enjoy...

⁕ Do you have a certain place at home for reading?  ~Yes. I would confidently say that the majority of my reading at home is done at my desk. However, I also read in bed every night for at least an hour ;) ⁕  Bookmark or random piece of paper?  ~I use bookmarks typically but if there’s none around, I will just stick a random thing, sometimes a piece of paper, where I left off for the moment until I find a real bookmark.  ⁕  Can you just stop reading or do you have to stop after a chapter/a certain amount of pages? ~I always try to read at least 50 pages at a time, so I can stop at an even amount of pages (50, 150, etc.). So yes, unless for some reason I have to suddenly put down my book, I would say that I usually have to stop after a certain amount of pages.  ⁕  Do you eat or drink while reading?  ~Sometimes…if I have something to eat or drink and don’t want to put the book down :)  ⁕  Multitasking: Music or TV while reading?  ~I...

  About the Book: ✦ Title: Lost for Words ✦ Author: Kristen Eckhardt ✦ Genre: Contemporary Christian Cozy Mystery ✦ Series: Book #18 of The Secrets of Mary’s Bookshop series ✦ Recommend for: ages 13 & up My Personal Rating 3 1/2 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis One day Mary notices a young woman sitting in her bookshop. As the afternoon passes, the woman remains, pretending to read a book and clearly waiting for someone who never arrives. When Mary approaches her, she tearfully confesses that she doesn't remember anything before that day. The only clue she has to her identity is a note she found in her pocket when she woke up on the beach, which says, "Katie, arrive at Mary's bookshop at 1:12." Mary takes Katie under her wing, and together they scour Ivy Bay for clues to discover who Katie really is. But after learning about a recent mugging in town as well as a man who seems to be following Katie, Mary thinks the more important question might be what - or who - caused Katie to lo...

About the Book: ✦ Title: The Ink of Elspet ✦ Author: J.D. Peabody ✦ Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy ✦ Series: Book #1 in the Inkwell Chronicles series ✦ Recommend for: 11/12+, but depends on the reader My Personal Rating 3 ⭐ 📖 Synopsis Immerse yourself in this fast-paced middle-grade fantasy about magic ink, a secret society, and a boy who yearns to make his mark. When their father goes missing after a mysterious train crash, Everett and his little sister Bea find a curious pen in his belongings, and its magical Ink begins to rewrite their once-ordinary lives. The Ink leads them to a world they never knew existed—one teeming with impossible magic, formidable allies, and villains who are determined to destroy everything they hold dear. Together, Everett and Bea embark on an adventure through secret tunnels in England and Scotland to find and protect the last Inkwell, and ultimately to save their father. But in order to do so, Everett must find a way to tap into the most magical power...