This is the second book of "The Circle" trilogy. Having, of course, read "Black" first, I immedidiately continued into "Red." All three books are loaded on my Kindle as one big file!

Dekker keeps you turning page after page with short chapters and the fact that the main character falls asleep in one place and dreams about his life in another "world." I guess you could say it is part sci-fi, part time travel, but it is totally engrossing!

Thomas Hunter is the man of the hour, growing from a 25-year-old kid to a 40-year-old man in the course of a few weeks! Yet, in the contemporary United States he still looks 25, but after every snooze he gains more confidence in dealing with people and he is like a cat with nine lives. In "Black" he was shot and left for dead twice, yet after falling unconscious and waking in the other world, his wounds are healed. When he awakens again in the US he is totally unscathed except for a few tell-tale scars.

He is trying to save the World, but which one? It seems as if they are both in peril. If he dies in one, does he die in the other? I do not know that answer to that yet and would not tell if I did.

Starting with "Black" these are truly engaging books and I will be looking for more by Thomas Dekker.