He wakes up to find himself back in Denver. He soon discovers that every time he falls asleep, he wakes up in the other world, until he falls asleep there. Outside of the Black Forest is the Colored Forest, a paradise inhabited by a civilization of immortal-yet innocent-human beings who are watched over by Elyon, a God-like being, along with white, bat-like Roush, who are opposites of the Shataiki and act as servants of Elyon.
Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Great book, Black: The Birth of Evil pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone.
Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Your Comment:. Great book, The Circle Trilogy pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker. All the descriptions of the bats eating humans alive and everything?? I had a really hard time stomaching all the violence in this book. I wasn't that much of a fan, honestly. Some of the fantasy elements were cool, but I wasn't overly interested in the world overall.
It just seemed boring to me, and I was tempted to skim over those chapters. Thomas was okay though he annoyed me at times , but Rachelle? I just I don't know how to describe this, but I just didn't like the overall "feel" of the novel. It was weird but not in the way I liked , disturbing, but also boring? Some books I just click with and some I don't. I'm not exactly dying for more Dekker books. BUT that doesn't mean I won't be giving them another try. After all, he's written plenty of them to try out.
Surprisingly, I didn't like the fantasy aspect all that much. View all 7 comments. Feb 02, Angela Watts rated it it was amazing Shelves: mystery.
This book was absolutely amazing. It made me laugh, made me mad, surprised me, got me thinking, and wonderfully showed a side of Elyon that I really needed in my life lately. Jaw-dropping book. View all 15 comments. Apr 14, Charles rated it liked it Recommends it for: Fantasy and suspense lovers. Shelves: fiction , suspense. Few books have such an immersive world that you actually feel like you're living in it when you read it.
Although this is true about the first book in the ring trilogy being Black by Ted Dekker, the book has some major flaws. Characters sometimes seem unrealistic and do absurd things for seemingly no apparent reason.
I am constantly reminded of this by the stupid comments that the main character constantly throws out in serious conversations. Such as "If they don't help us we should nuke them," Few books have such an immersive world that you actually feel like you're living in it when you read it. Such as "If they don't help us we should nuke them," perfectly logical : I've read other pieces by Ted Dekker House and Saint and they have had half way decent writing and amazing plots. Overall his books have been extremely well put together, or so I thought.
You can tell that Black was written early on in his career. The writing is really not that great but the plot does still hold up amazingly well. I'm going to call this the "Harry Potter Syndrome" because JK Rowling's series is very well put together, but terribly written. Also the theology in this book seems to be kinda wack.
I know from being a Christian that God loves us, but Ted Dekker's portrayal of God randomly hugging people and telling them how much He loves them dosen't seem like the greatest way to present God. I know he loves us, but he does more then just give us hugs and say nice things to us. Last time I checked the bible, God did a lot more then just say "I love you" which seems to practically be the only thing that ever comes out of his mouth.
Some actual wisdom might be nice for a change. I'll also mention that the last third of the book picked up an insane amount and a large portion of things were left unexplained. It seemed like the author went "Hhhhmmmm, I don't feel like writing this anymore so I'm just going to skip all the detailed explanations I've been giving so far and sum up the novel in ten pages.
I think Ted Dekker should have spent more time developing this or maybe started this series down the road after writing a few other stories. It's a shame they were written as badly as they are considering the plot line's amazing twists and turns.
O well, I'm looking forward to the sequel Red and Ted Dekker has ounce again proved that there is a reason why his name hovers above other modern day authors. Take a star off is you don't enjoy fiction this novel is very fictiony I guess and add a star if you like action packed suspense View all 6 comments.
But it was not without faults. The characterization was kinda bad in the beginning, sometimes the writing was a little eye-rolly, the situations a little too convenient.
In fact, I started on the second book immediately after finishing which is something I almost never do. View all 3 comments. Nov 05, Jerry rated it it was amazing. I first read this all the way back in , and it still holds up today. An exciting, fantastical thrill ride that grips you, this is a wonderful book.
Even though I've read them before, I can't wait to try Red and White again! View 1 comment. Jan 23, Bill rated it did not like it Shelves: horror-supernatural , thriller , fantasy. Ted Dekker is supposed to be a pretty good writer. I would not assent to that proposition based on this book. Based on the high ratings and good reviews of this work on Amazon. I could barely finish it. The one thing Mr. Dekker does well here is create two distinct worlds and keep the protagonist and the reader wondering which one is real.
Is it the world that seems to be our own, with all of its war Ted Dekker is supposed to be a pretty good writer. Is it the world that seems to be our own, with all of its wars, disease and crime? Or is it the land the protagonist visits when he is sleeping or in a coma , where evil is decidedly black and good is innocent and naive? The problem is that I don't care. The fantasy world is not rich enough and things are too black and white. The allegory is both too obvious and too dense to penetrate.
I'm not sure what the author is trying to show. Events in the real world are either too coincidental or too dependent on an almost omniscient and omnipotent antagonist. No one has that kind of power and insight. And the protagonist is too laid back for a novel. Things just happen to him, even when he's trying to be a bit assertive.
I made it all the way to the end of the book, looking for something to really happen or be explained. It never was. And I don't care enough about it to pick up the other two books and spend the hours needed to read them. Feb 16, Sarah Grace Grzy rated it really liked it Shelves: contemporary , adventure , adult , fantasy , made-me-cry , suspense , i-own. I don't think mere words can actually encompass my thoughts about this series, but I will do my best.
This isn't the type of book I usually read, but, at the insistence of several friends, I decided to give this series a shot. A strangely gripping combination of sci-fi, thriller, and fantasy, The Circle series is unlike anything I've ever read, and, I would guess, unparalleled in its genre. Whatever genre that is. First off, any expectations you may have when you start this book, just th W. First off, any expectations you may have when you start this book, just throw them out of the window right here and now.
Black completely turned my expectations on their head, and not completely in a good way. It was just so different from what I expected that I struggled a bit. That being said, I was too far into the story to just put it down. Thomas is such an incredibly unique character. He's so very human, which is what I think makes him so fabulous. I also loved Kara. I could definitely relate to some of her sisterliness. The plot. The premise of this book is so unique and unusual, it gripped my attention right away.
Dekker's writing style is also very unique and captivating and definitely fits well with the story. Altogether, while I wasn't a fan of certain elements of this book, I did enjoy it overall. One can't deny the brilliance that this book is! View all 10 comments. Oct 17, J. Bailey rated it it was amazing. More epic awesomeness from Dekker. Since this novel ended on a cliffhanger, I do believe that I will be purchasing the next book in the series very soon; else I might go mad with anticipation!
Wipes sweat from brow. Pauses briefly to reflect upon the meaning of life. Reaches for recently-acquired copy of Red. I'm glad that I decided to reread this before picking up Red because there is soooooo much I forgot about! Like this little snippet from Thomas's dive int More epic awesomeness from Dekker. Like this little snippet from Thomas's dive into the lake: The water forced his eyes open and new images filled his mind. His mother, crying. The images came faster now.
Pictures of his life. A dark, terrible nature. A red-faced man was spitting obscenities with a long tongue that kept flashing from his gaping mouth like a snake's. Each time the tongue touched another person, they crumpled to the floor in a pile of bones.
It was his face he saw. Memories of lives dead and gone, but here now and dying still. And he knew then that he had entered his own soul. I think this passage bore a little more significance to me this time around since I recently had a similar awakening View all 8 comments.
Mar 17, Micaiah rated it it was amazing Shelves: reading-challenge , reading-challenge. Ted Dekker's Black is mind-bendingly brilliant. I always say Dekker is a writing genius - which isn't something I think often. He weaves messages into his thrillers, adds suspense to every page, creates villains you despise and characters you can get frustrated with and yet root for simultaneously.
And honestly? What blows me away are his plots. Consistently, they leave me wide-eyed, flipping pages in emotional angst late into the night, if I can. Full of suspense, w Ted Dekker's Black is mind-bendingly brilliant. Dekker a bestseller. This is some of his best.
And I liked it quite a bit. Enough to give it four uncertain-stars and not reallyyy think twice about it. One word description: Incredible. Feel free to have a chuckle at my expense. What I liked: Every character is fully capable of leaping off the page and walking around in everyday life. Especially Thomas Hunter, your casual barista and failed novelist-turned-world-hero.
And not just one world - two starkly different and yet interwoven worlds. Thomas is engaging. And his courage and guts are sometimes astounding and laugh-worthy. The villain is disturbing enough to make you blanch. Kara and Monique are just the right kind of heroines I like to read about. And the plethora of other fictional people is basically as realistic as those previously mentioned. The world-building. Two different realities. Somehow unique and yet tied together.
Talking white bats and trees made in color and lakes you can breathe in no longer seem like oddities. At least in the novel.
The plot is full-blown suspense, breathtaking, eye-widening action and intensity on pretty much every page. The writing style. It gives you a new perspective on Jesus, and I loved that. So much. But it is there and some of it is bloody enough that I cringe thinking about it even now. Give it a try! View all 5 comments. Nov 25, Jill Williamson rated it it was amazing Shelves: fantasy. Someone is shooting at Thomas Hunter. He runs for his life—zig-zagging, hiding, and executing some awesome martial arts—as men chase him through the streets of Denver.
But when a silent bullet grazes his head, his world goes black and he wakes up somewhere else. In darkness. Hideous bats chase him, clawing at him until he loses consciousness again and wakes up back in Denver, in an alley. Only to wake up in the strange place again. He finds his way out of the scary, dark place and into a perfect land, somewhere in the distant future. He meets kind people who embrace him, a beautiful woman, and embarks on an amazing adventure.
But still, every time he falls asleep in one world, he wakes up in the other. And as the stories weave together, Thomas discovers that the past, and his life in Denver, was destroyed by a deadly virus. He wakes in Denver and enlists the help of his very skeptical sister. The two set off to save the world, with Thomas traveling back and forth looking for clues and trying to convince everyone of his sanity.
What an amazing book. From page one, Black, by Ted Dekker, captivates, taking the reader on a journey of cunning wonder.
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