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Loading... Black (The Circle Trilogy, Book 1) (The Books of History Chronicles)by Ted DekkerSeries: Circle Trilogy (Book 1), The Books of History Chronicles (Circle Trilogy, Book 1)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  crazybatcow | Aug 25, 2009 |  I did not like this book. It was really hard to get into no matter how hard i tried. The plot is ridiculous, the charachters very stale, no development for them whatsoever. I might try some of his thrillers, but as for this trilogy, wont be reading them. (  ) kagan | Jul 15, 2009 | “I liked the concept of this book. Tom goes to sleep in one world and lives in another while he sleeps. The fantasy world is imaginitive and interesting. However, I just couldn't get into the characters, except for Rachelle, who I absolutely hated. And I think she's a character that you're supposed to like. The allegorical components of this story were a little heavily applied for my taste, but otherwise, it's a pretty good book. (  ) vanedow | Apr 10, 2009 | First part of a trilogy set in two worlds, both facing disaster. Cliffhanger ending. Looking forward to reading part two... (  ) cbinstead | Sep 5, 2008 | Freaky and good. Great way to overlap the two stories! (  ) mattp340 | Aug 5, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0849917905, Hardcover)Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide. Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head...and his world goes black. From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world-a world where evil is contained. A world where Thomas Hunter is in love with a beautiful woman. Then he remembers the dream of the chase as he reaches to touch the blood on his head. Where does the dream end and reality begin? Every time he falls asleep in one world, he awakes in the other-both facing catastrophic disaster. Thomas is being pushed beyond his limits...even beyond the limits of space and time. Black is an incredible story of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, pursuit and death, and a terrorist's threat unlike anything the human race has ever known. Some say the world hangs in the balance of every choice we make. Now the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance of one man's choice. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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There are 2 "realities" in the story - the modern day "realistic" one is actually well-done and quite interesting. The fantasy world is a bit too... err... poetically Christian? In the "realistic" world, Thomas Hunter is being shot at, but then when he sleeps and pops into the "fantasy" world, there is page after page after page of "The Great Romance".
This is the part that bothered me the most. Of course, it is Christian fiction so there is lots of God and feel-good-ness abounding throughout the story, but.... the whole "Great Romance" part of the story feels like the author was trying to pretend he was writing as a (bad) female romance novelist - "oh woo her Thomas!" "Oh, fight imaginary monsters to protect her Thomas!"
GAG!!! This foray into a bad imitation of chick lit romance ruined what was otherwise a very decent and interesting story. I won't read the rest in the series - it's just not good enough to waste time on. (