This book is tough for me to write about. There are elements I liked and elements I didn't. His writing style is easy to engage with and is compelling, but it is the first half-fantasy, half-mainstream fiction I've ever read.

I don't really know what to say.

Yes. I do.

This book is intriguing because Ted Dekker has taken an idea and catapulted it into a whole other spectrum of writing. I can see why he is so well loved and has done so well.

The story is about a man who finds himself living in two worlds - the "real" world (aka - the mainstream fiction writing) and a "dream" world (aka - definitely fantasy genre). He passes back and forth between these two worlds, never knowing which one is the real one, but the author has a definite agenda in where he wants to go with his writing.

This is a Christian Fiction book and at first look, I would never have known. However, as the book progresses, the connection to Christianity becomes increasingly clear and what Dekker feels he wants the message of this book to convey.

This book is also part of a four-part Circle series - four books that begin and end with the same book. You can read any one of them and go around the circle and they will end where it began. I have not tried this, although I do have the next in line - Red - and I am undecided if I would like to go the circular distance. There was enough about the way the fantasy particulars were written that did not keep me interested to make me unsure if I am willing to venture into the next one.

We'll have to see.