Black

Dekker, Ted. Black. Nashville, TN: WestBow, 2004. Print.  (408/408 pages)

I have enjoyed reading book one, Black, out of the Circle series by Ted Dekker. Black is more of a science-fiction book which is different from what I normally read but since taking this course I became open to different type of books. I was having trouble finding a book that would be challenging enough for the class, my sister recommended the Circle series because she read them and thought they were good so I decided to give it a try.

In the first chapter I was really confused because it was kind of like background information on one of the characters but I didn’t know that until half way into the book. Another confusing part in the book is that it goes back and forth between two different worlds. Every time, Thomas (the main character) falls asleep in one world he wakes up in an imaginary one filled with talking birds and fruits that heal you. Sometimes it doesn’t say that Thomas has fallen asleep except for a text break and then all of a sudden he is talking about different people and experiencing different things than what you just read.  

Other than the switching back and forth between the two worlds, Black isn’t that difficult to understand or boring for that matter. Once I got through the first chapter in the book I kept on wanting to read more to find out what happens in the end to both his worlds. I wanted to know “will the disease kill everyone” and “are the birds in the black forest going to kill everyone in the village”. Since this is part of a series they didn’t answer these questions at the end or else there would be no room for the next book. The great thing about this though, since the books were published in 2004 I didn’t have to wait for the next book to come out which is what I am reading now. I would recommend this book for people to read because it’s a good book playing a fantasy and a natural disaster part.