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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
The book is written well, just not my genre and I couldn’t get into it.
Spoilers — summary if book to remind myself of what happened.
A blind girl lives in the small town of Eden. She is blind and her father finds a way to try and cure her blindness. She treats her for the blindness and she goes into a coma where she wakes up in another dimension (it’s really earth a couple thousand years in the future) and she can see in that. She thinks it’s a dream but back in eden she’s still asleep in a coma.
In the future she finds out whenever she falls asleep she switches realities and goes between eden and the other future earth.
She finds out she’s the “49th mystic” and had to find 5 seals to save the world. In the first book she finds 3 which I guess temporarily saves everyone.
At one point she’s blinded again but then gets her vision back.
I just had trouble getting through this book and it was hard to follow along with the talking animals, riddle seals, and language used in future earth.
Ending leaves you hanging I guess to want to read the next book but I was not interested by the end to continue on and had trouble even finishing this book.
Spoilers — summary if book to remind myself of what happened.
A blind girl lives in the small town of Eden. She is blind and her father finds a way to try and cure her blindness. She treats her for the blindness and she goes into a coma where she wakes up in another dimension (it’s really earth a couple thousand years in the future) and she can see in that. She thinks it’s a dream but back in eden she’s still asleep in a coma.
In the future she finds out whenever she falls asleep she switches realities and goes between eden and the other future earth.
She finds out she’s the “49th mystic” and had to find 5 seals to save the world. In the first book she finds 3 which I guess temporarily saves everyone.
At one point she’s blinded again but then gets her vision back.
I just had trouble getting through this book and it was hard to follow along with the talking animals, riddle seals, and language used in future earth.
Ending leaves you hanging I guess to want to read the next book but I was not interested by the end to continue on and had trouble even finishing this book.
I could only get through the first five chapters. This is a typical Dekker novel so if you love his writing, you will LOVE this book. Unfortunately, I feel that I have outgrown his writing so I could not get into the story. I hope maybe someday I can come back to this book.
suchhhhh a juicy sci fi book, my younger self that ate up magic tree house is living for this
I really enjoyed [b:Black: The Birth of Evil|125956|Black The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)|Ted Dekker|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388268108s/125956.jpg|1614882] and it's subsequent books. However, [b:The 49th Mystic|36548233|The 49th Mystic (Beyond the Circle #1)|Ted Dekker|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1510003023s/36548233.jpg|58279912] just was not my favorite. I found it hard to get through and thought the whole solving of the Seals thing was hard to believe. It was all very steeped in "Christianese" and if someone were to read it who did not have that belief system, I think it would be very confusing. I thought it was confusing enough for me, as a Christian. Sadly, I was pretty disappointed with this book.
Ted Dekker packs a punch when it comes to combining powerful truth with breathtaking storytelling. I was excited to be drawn back into the familiar landscape of the Circle series, while falling in love with new characters. The book stayed in my head for days after I finished, and was easily one of my favorite books of the year.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I finished this book but I feel like I didn't. Really terrible ending and it was hard to stay intrigued at times. A lot of it was very introspective.
I am one of Ted Dekker’s biggest fans. I loved that this book connected to the world of the Circle Trilogy. It had a lot of the same flavor of those books tied with some of the style of the water walker books. It had some more abstract concepts and verbiage than the Circle series which I haven’t decided if I like that as much. I think it’s awesome how this story is explaining the Circle symbol through the 5 seals. It’s not what I expected it to be. I thought it would be more like the salvation bead bracelets that used to be popular. I’m looking forward to seeing what the last two seals are.
The main biblical concepts found in the book include: perfect love casts out fear, having a right view of who God is, seeing events and people the way God sees them and not through our sinful earthly filter, & knowing suffering and our earthly bodies are temporary and we are made for more than this- we are to die to our sin and live in the spirit and hope that God calls us to. This list is not exhaustive. Which is one thing I love about his books- it puts a tangible picture to explore things we think we ‘know’ already and challenges us to really own our faith and no what we believe and why it’s important.
Disclaimer: I wouldn’t read this book as a theology book, I’m not sure I quite agree with the exact words of everything he said and verses he used but at the very least I could appreciate the idea behind it and could see the point he was getting at so it wasn’t a big issue.
The main biblical concepts found in the book include: perfect love casts out fear, having a right view of who God is, seeing events and people the way God sees them and not through our sinful earthly filter, & knowing suffering and our earthly bodies are temporary and we are made for more than this- we are to die to our sin and live in the spirit and hope that God calls us to. This list is not exhaustive. Which is one thing I love about his books- it puts a tangible picture to explore things we think we ‘know’ already and challenges us to really own our faith and no what we believe and why it’s important.
Disclaimer: I wouldn’t read this book as a theology book, I’m not sure I quite agree with the exact words of everything he said and verses he used but at the very least I could appreciate the idea behind it and could see the point he was getting at so it wasn’t a big issue.
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced