BOOK REVIEW: Black 

 

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by Beth Goddard

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Title: Black Author: Ted Dekker

Publisher: WestBow Press

ISBN: 0-8499-1790-5

Genre: Inspirational/Sci-Fi/Suspense

Valborg Svensson. Rachelle. Monique de Raison. What do they have in common? They are all characters who live in the two worlds of Thomas Hunter’s dreams. Black: The Birth of Evil, begins with a prologue that reveals there are evil men plotting the virulent destruction of the world. Chapter one plunges into action—Thomas is running from thugs who want to kill him for good reason.

A bullet swipes his head, nearly killing him and knocking him unconscious. When he wakes up he can’t remember a thing about the strange black trees surrounding him, nor the fiendish-looking black bats with cherry red eyes staring down at him. All he can remember is the strange dream he had about being shot by hit men and his head hurts.

Which world is real?

Thomas walks a tightrope between two worlds when each time he falls asleep in one place he wakes up in the other where he left off. While he struggles to resolve his predicaments in each place, he inadvertently causes a string of events that may ultimately bring the destruction of both worlds, revealing to Thomas that they are connected in some way.

Black is book one in The Circle Trilogy and fortunately, you don’t have to wait to read book two and three, Red and White. Dekker does an outstanding job making you see the two worlds through the character’s eyes. You understand why Thomas can’t decide which world is real.

Dekker slowly unmasks the correlations between the two worlds. Both are permeated by dark and light, good and evil. He even gives us a glimpse of what life might have been like without The Fall. I enjoy a writer who isn’t afraid to break out of the box.

I especially enjoyed Dekker’s expressive descriptions of God’s (Elyon’s) presence. Three words come to mind for the first book in this trilogy. Colorful. Imaginative. Dynamic. As soon as I finish writing this review, I’m picking up Red.