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Benjamin J. Denen

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Fantasy, Fiction, Christian

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Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, Frank Peretti, Jim Butcher

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Benjamin J. Denen is a husband, father, son, brother, friend, Christ follower, author, musician, pizza aficionado, promoter of the Oxford comma, and fan of all things Chicago sports (Cubs not White Sox). He holds a Bachelor of Music with an emphasis in Guitar Performance from Belmont University (a fancy way of saying he plays guitar good) and a Master of Arts in Youth Ministry Leadership from Huntington University. When he’s not reading, he’s writing. Sometimes that means he is composing music for film/media in his project studio (i.e. in his converted garage). It could also mean that he is writing his latest novel.

He writes much in the same way that he reads, which is to say that he bounces around between different genres like Tigger after ...more

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	The Keeper of Edelyndia 4.30 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raulin: Rise of the Forest King by Benjamin J. Denen (Goodreads Author), Josh Jack Carl (Illustrator), Amanda Maile (Editor) 4.39 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Question of Christmas 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Keeper of Edelyndia (The Keeper Chronicles Book 1) by Benjamin J. Denen (2014-08-19) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

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The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson is a delightfully surprising melting pot of genres. For those who have not read Mistborn and are unfamiliar with The Alloy of Law, Sanderson made a bold (and brilliant) move to write an entirely new trilogy following the riveting Mistborn series. Instead of setting it in the immediate aftermath of its conclusion, he c

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