I begynnelsen var tegnet

by Kristian Kapelrud

Idyllen i Alfabeta-Nia slår sprekker. Hemmelige brev og grufulle beskyldninger gjør at uroen sprer seg.
Alfabetanerne vender seg mot hverandre, og snart flyter blod for første gang i en helt uskyldig verden.
Vil de tåle sannheten om kraften som skjuler seg i tegnene?

I en annen virkelighet sitter den unge forfatteren Louis Mackenzie i dype tanker. Mens verden rundt ham raser, følger han kampen i Alfabeta-Nia med falkeblikk - for deres strid er også hans. I hånden holder han en penn.

Genres: Fantasy, Christian, Young Adult

286 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Kaffimat · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up cause I read the second one at some point in my backstory, and I remember it being cool, and now I found the first one. And it is cool. I feel like the concept is cool enough to be four stars, but the writing was two stars (for me, this is a middle grade-ish (?) book so I won't say it was bad. Just a bit too simple and monologue-y for my tastes)

So what is this cool concept that would be four stars? The story is about a fantasy world, and it is about the author of that fantasy world (not Kapelrud, a fictional author of the fictional world), and the fictional author is a self-insert in the fictional fantasy world. I liked how the story of Alfabeta-Nia and the real fictional life of the author shape each other. The way he brought himself into the story as an almightyish? author/god? is headache-worthy. In a cool way. I think Shit Gets More Real in the second one though, so I'm looking forward to that.

[Karine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Boka er todelt mellom ein forfattar i skottland og ein høvdingson i eit eventyrland. Ganske kult konsept med forfatter som skriv seg inn i historia (Ikkje Kapelrud). Kunne ønske vi hadde blitt litt meir kjendt med karakterane, då hadde det gitt bedre effekt gjennom historia når ulike hendelser skjedde. Men man har vel ikkje så mykje plass til det når det berre er ein trilogi. Om eg skulle velge å berre følgje ei av historiene hadde eg valt Louie sin fortelling.

[Jakob Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

__My Rating: 6/10__. It took 485 min .

[Tuyet Nguyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE this book!! ^^ #christianfantacy
#awsome #justwow

[Scyte · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome