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Do you hesitate to read fantasy? Maybe you’ve been looking at the wrong books.
Amazon Review – 5 out of 5 Stars Do you hesitate to read fantasy? Maybe you’ve been reading the wrong books.
Reader, are you a fantasy fan? Perhaps if you say no, you haven’t sampled the uplifting fantasy that author Azalea Dabill describes, analyzes, and lists in this book. After all, there is plenty of fantasy writing out there that leaves a bad feeling in the pit of the stomach.
Learning to tell the difference between fantasy that uplifts and fantasy that does the opposite is the purpose of this book, which it executes in lyrical fashion–with excerpts from 70, count them 70 authors, including specific recommendations for even more than that. This book is clearly a labor of love. — Phyllis Wheeler, author of The Long Shadow, to be published in 2021
– Phyllis Wheeler, Motherboard Books
The ocean of fantasy and speculative fiction is vast.
Are you looking for books for a young adult or middle grade reader that inspires as it entertains? Have you wondered how to find the best Noblebright fantasy adventures? Or where to hunt for the gems? The ocean of fantasy is vast.
How about teaching them to discern good from bad on their own? Diving into this book will show you the difference between good power and evil magick, and help younger readers know what makes a clean romantic book (without using any dirty images, just the good) and grand traditional adventure.
Imaginative fiction is a key to our future. Beauty, mystery, and adventure are vital to our spirits.
In Fantastic Journey, we bring up select jewels from the deep and explore mountain troves of fiction with many authors to whet your appetite for the riches heaped on untold shores. The inspiring adventures we explore are beacons of extraordinary story. Most of them are lights by contrast, guiding us to enchanting lands of danger in the ocean of fantasy and speculative fiction.
Fantastic Journey invites us to search beyond what we see for truth, to dig deeper for courage.
Why do the quest and the hero’s journey draw us all? Why does hope in fantasy, or Noblebright fantasy as they call it, matter to us? What difference does it make?
Heroes and heroines show us how to identify true gems and sell them not. How to discern enemies, friends, and endless possibilities with our inner eye, and to touch and taste the truths of life in realms near and far. Will you dive deep with us and discover that which is the wealth of souls?
Amazon Review – 4 out of 5 Stars
Wow! This book perfectly explains why fantasy is one of my first loves. I like the way the author breaks down what we fantasy readers experience when we read a Christ-centered fantasy book. It doesn’t have to be overtly Christian for us readers to see the Maker within the pages or for us to enjoy a good fantasy book. But we know their is a message of hope even if despair is abounding within the pages. I also like how she explained the hidden gems; it was interesting. Anyway, if you want to know why I love fantasy and what I experience as I read it, then you need to read Fantastic Journey.
– DJ
Yet the ocean of fantasy is not without dangers. Wherever there is wealth, there is risk.
The soul of good fantasy adventure benefits us on three levels.
• The spiritual arena
• The wide world of ideas
• And the sphere we breathe in
Each story that draws the contrast of light battling darkness, that mirrors reality, that calls us to the adventure of truth, that reveals the joy of wonder, and the beauty of brave action – that story is a precious jewel won from the sea.
Dare to help your loved ones find the soul of imaginative fiction in the spiritual arena, the wide world of ideas, and the sphere we breathe in.
You can get Fantastic Journey here on Amazon or wherever books are sold.
You can also be among the first to let me know what you think of Fantastic Journey and review it here.
Or you can email me your thoughts at fantasticjourney.dynamospress@gmail.com. Readers and I both appreciate your honest opinion on the book.
Still not sure if Fantastic Journey is what you’re looking for? See Felicia Cheung’s post.
About my strangely backwards creation of Fantastic Journey from blog to book, Derek Murphy posted an article you can check out here if you’re curious.
Thank you for joining us on this fantastic journey into the ocean of imaginative fiction!
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