This is the first book of the Circle Trilogy, the same trilogy I have talked about so much over on my blog. I read it for the second time while on vacation, and it definitely did not disappoint. It seems like the perfect summer read.
The Circle Trilogy is definitely more in the action/adventure genre than I'm usually comfortable with. However, Dekker mixes in other things as well to make for a delightful treat. In Black, 25-year-old Thomas Hunter finds that everytime he goes to sleep in this world, he wakes up in another, except this other world is not some distant planet, but earth sometime far in the future after everything that we know today has drastically changed. Everytime he goes to sleep there, he is waking up in this world. Each place has its problems and feels completely real when Thomas is in them.
The problem in this world is that a supervirus is going to be released upon the whole world which kills within 3 weeks. Thomas plays a major role in trying to get the right people's attention about this danger and has to resort to some extreme measures to get attention.
In the other world, everything is entirely different. Thomas lives in a beautiful colored forest that surrounds a lake filled with green water than you can breath. Everything is perfect. Though Thomas doesn't realize his past in that world thanks to amnesia, he knows somehow he doesn't quite belong. A woman, Rachelle, falls for him, so he has to figure out how someone in that culture is suppose to act in such a relationship. Also, he is invested in keeping the first man, Tanis, from drinking the water in the black woods, the only thing that was forbidden for them to do.
It's hard for me to write a succinct review as I absolutely love this book. As you can tell, there really is never a dull moment. Even though I read it before, I couldn't help but struggle alongside Thomas with trying to understand which world is actually real...or are they both?
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Sounds good, I'll have to see if my library has it. I just finished a book that was very good but also very strange like that, I'm trying to figure out how best to describe it.
ReplyDeleteI think I would actually enjoy this. I like time-travel books.
ReplyDeleteI like time travel books too, but this is definitely an unusual one (how can a time travel book be usual?)!
ReplyDeleteAlthough it may be accurate, I certainly don't think of this book as a time-travel book. Fantasy, though, definitely. And amazing.
ReplyDeleteI think going back and forth between two worlds would be both interesting and scary! I would love to read this book.
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Why does this sound like some sort of PKD mind trip? It sounds so much like some sort of psychotic thing PKD would have come up with if he were still alive...obviously it's not written by him, but still. And that's really a compliment, as far as I'm concerned. Any time I get a PKD feeling from an author, it means I'm interesting...
ReplyDeleteI haven't read this one yet but I'm going to be looking for it now. I'm glad to hear you think so much of it especially since it's not the type you would normally enjoy. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm enjoying your blog!
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