Series: The Circle Trilogy

Genre: Fantasy

Author: Ted
Dekker

This is the first of a trilogy – but don’t be intimidated by the fact that you must read three books to journey through all of Dekker’s tale. This is an incredible fantasy, written with such a furious pace that it is hard to put down. I was wise enough to not start any of the three books until I had all of them – unfortunately for my wife I did have all of them when I started reading them, and I just went from one to the next to the final one. Incredible!

On the surface it’s an incredibly imaginative fantasy, written in a world where a fantastical realm lies just out of reach of the the everyday world we live in (or does it?), and one man stumbles across the breach. On a deeper level it’s an anology almost on par with C.S. Lewis’ Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe.

If you can tell, I don’t like to give much of the story away (I love the thrill of finding everything out for the first time, and I like to share that!), but suffice it to say that Dekker weaves a very nice web of a plot throughout the three books.

This book, to me, raised more questions that it answered (which it should have, being the first book), so I would highly suggest making sure you have easy access to the other two books (Red and White) before you begin this one.

Worldview: Christian

Suggested Age: Due to the violence (it’s got some great fighting in it!) and some surface level sexual innuendo (nothing explicit or coarse) I would suggest it for high school age students and up.

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