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Summary: A fantastic, strange, and totally compelling allegory
Review: What an incredible story. Ted Dekker has yet again delivered with a story that simply won't let you go. The book starts out a bit slow, and is often hard to follow as we are taken along with the lead character, Thomas Hunter, between modern day Denver and a strange world that at first appears to be a dream.
Slowly the two worlds become more entwined and harder to determine what is real and what is a dream. The pacing and structure of the story reminds me of some of Terry Brooks books, namely the "Magic Kingdom: For Sale" series. Consider this trilogy a tribute to the late, great, CS Lewis as it is a wonderful allegory of the Christian story, but with a nod to modern day authors like Brook's or even Stephen King. Like the CS Lewis classic Narnia series, time does not correlate between the two worlds, allowing for the storylines to intersect in some really fascinating ways. One warning, do not buy this book unless you are prepared to buy all three. So tantalizing is this cliffhanger that I had to run out that day and purchase the second book, and start that one. Now I have to wait for the third. A well done and well written book. If you are not a fan of science-fiction or thrillers then this book may not appeal to you, but if you are it is an impossible to put down page turner.
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Summary: Sci-fi, terrorist thriller, theology overlay, & more
Review: While I generally like the book there are just too many plots to develop in the first half of the book. The book goes too slow for an action typed thriller.
I applaud the author at the attempt of a very difficult theme of going from a science fiction to a thriller and back and forth. Then add a few miscellaneous thugs with a separate plot and story line about money. Then drop a Christian theme on top of it with obvious names associated to the Bible. Just too much taking away from the two main plot lines.
With this in mind, I like the the two main plot lines. In one world evil is very literal and visible and in the other it is hidden(but equally as deadly) I am into the third book now so I have been intrigued enough to keep with it. I just didn't think literal evil would be a talking bat!
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