i love books.. i do love books..

I love books... I do love books.. alot...

This one, I had a hard time with..

Green tells the story of Thomas Hunter, a man from our time who has been transported to the future version of our world, which has long since gone through the events of Revelation. This book starts years after Thomas has entered this timeline. He is older now with children and a wife, and is in charge of a group called The Circle, a version of Christians which combats evil and hopes to try and bring unbelievers the message of God, or Elyon as he is now called. Except this time, evil and good now have very viable and tangible powers, made real by Elyon after Revelation. And with Thomas at the end of his rope, he has to find a way back to out time to try and save his reality.  I must admit, when I read the intro to this book, I was a bit intrigued. Dekker has tried something completely new (as far as I can tell) in the realm of story writing. Green is meant to be both the first in the series and the last in the series, depending on how you read the four novels (others are Red, White, and Black). However, his daring experiment falls flat on its face. No real back story was given, and the change of each chapter between Thomas’ new reality and ours only seemed to have the barest connection until later. Evil characters are cliché in appearance, and for anyone who has read the other books, it is simply a retelling of the events that you already know about. So, while an interesting idea, it doesn’t really deliver .

I still love books though.. just not this one so much.