Red: Ted Dekkar

If you look to a few posts back you’ll see a review on a book called Black. Red is a sibling to Black in what’s called the Circle series. Quite an ingenious idea of writing a series of books in which the beginning is also the end. Anyhow, most of this is already explained in Blacks review so if you want to know more and you haven’t already read that former review stop reading this right now. Read it, and then return. If you do not, you just may be lost. Either that or you can just read the entire series, which I do recommend.
Ok, so what we deal with in Red, is a continuation of Thomas Hunter’s dual reality disasters. Thomas finds himself in the reality we know as a man drastically changing daily. He is constantly escaping death, directing the world’s top officials in policy, as well as kicking a lot of butt. All of this, possible due to his experiences in a alternative reality in which he is a seasoned General. Battling a monstrous foe that’s only concern is their total annihilation.
The Forrest Guard in which Thomas commands, protects a number of forest tribes which all share a coinciding belief in Elyon. This belief requires the practice of Bathing daily in anointed lakes by which protects them from the onset of Dessert dwelling diseases. These Desert Dwellers also known as the Horde suffer from scaling skin, and the inability to recognize and accept truth.
In the present reality Thomas continually goes up against a faction intent on plaguing the entire world with a virus that will kill the entire population within three weeks. There is a race to find a cure which is already possessed by the fraction. The price for the cure is the entire stock pile of nuclear weapons held by any nation with nuclear capability. Through Thomas’s dreams he is able to be the factions only wild card in which they had no way of planning against. Through the information in these dreams he is able to posse’s skills and knowledge on his enemy. Allowing Thomas to find them, despite their every effort.
Red possesses a unique view of biblical principles. I actually found myself convicted when a symbolic sacrifice of a man left me cheering with the crowd to crucify him until I understood who he was, but only after the fact. Red is a fantastic read and evokes a desire to break out of the ruts we find ourselves in through everyday life.
On a different note in my own life I am currently in Florida getting ready to go into the Mayo Clinic for treatments for my Leukemia. The good part about all of this is I have time to read. I have a lot decided to begin writing a book. I will give more details of it as it gets further along.
I give Red an 8 out of 10