Christian Books Only Review Group discussion

I’m looking for a few good new series to read. My success of late has been not so good.

Authors I enjoy are John C. Dalglish, Dan Walsh, Creston Mapes, James Scott Bell. There are others but my mind is drawing a blank right now.

Ideally Christian but I manly want clean, no sex, profanity, etc. I know writing is creative and marination is good but I like some reality, no over the top with more holes then Swiss cheese. I’ma curmudgeon so I can not handle low doses of romance more if it isn’t sappy.

I’m just so tired of finding book one of a series but then in book two the f-word becomes more used, sex and infidelity are more common than copper pennies.

A good old fashion mystery is a favorite with some suspense. One where I don’t know who the killer is by the end of chapter 3. Crime fiction is good too. No disrespect ladies, but it seems so many protagonists our ladies. I’m a kid at heart, I like to plu my self in the role of the protagonist so male protagonist are preferred, but female are good just as long as they’re more smart and she iisn’’t a women who has something to prove and she as hard core and gritty as any tough guy.

I like protagonist that are family members, not washed up, disgraced cop, still n love with his ex, hates his boss who is dumb and a jerk. No past demons haunting him, etc. no totally insane psycho killer who has to be all the slayer movie characters in me. Extreme anything turns me off.

Okay enough of my curmudgeon side.

Bottom line I want to be entertained.

Thanks

To Him be the glory in all things

Scott aka Prison Preacher aka curmudgeon

Hi Scott. I had a similarly difficult time finding a Christian action adventure series. I've spent the last few years working to write one. After a few missteps, I'm just now releasing the first book in the series, with the rest coming out this year. It's called Mojave Rift by JW Gilbert. You may want to wait until the whole trilogy is done, but you can check it out at https://www.jwgilbertbooks.com. and get a feel for the subject matter and my writing style. Prison Preacher. I like that. Got a few friends that do that.

Thanks for the reply J. But, I'm not really a fan of action-adventure and apocalyptic fiction. Sorry.

I've been doing prison ministry since 2003 and in 2006 founded Soldiers of Christ Prisons Ministries. COVID has prevented me from going into any prisons since March 2020. I've kept somewhat serving by putting together a weekly study of the Psalms. However, today I scheduled a meeting with one of my former facilities and hope to be back in the classroom soon.

I'll actually be teaching a Discipleship class on the book of Revelation. I also teach Malachi Dads a series of books on fatherhood.

Again though I'm not a reader of your book's genre I pray God blesses you in getting avid readers.

To Him be the glory in ALL things!

Thanks Scott, good to know you're out there. I pray you're successful with the prisoners. I was mostly agreeing with you about the difficulty finding good clean reads with substance. I'm not into apocalyptic stuff either. Technically this series is based on Rev. 20, Isa. 2, Jer. 3, and over 800 other verses, so it's post-apocalyptic, when Jesus rules the nations. Unfortunately, if you search Amazon for Christian Fiction action/adventure, you get zero. Hence my difficulties. Hope you find what you're looking for. - John