Back to the Future. Disney’s The Kid. The Terminator. Star Trek. I love to watch time-travel movies and read novels involving time travel, time-shifting, and alternate universes.
Then I heard about The Circle Series by Ted Dekker. Four novels:
- Black: The Birth of Evil
- Red: The Heroic Rescue
- White: The Great Pursuit
- Green: The Last Stand
Here’s a little more about The Circle Series:
Ted Dekker’s bestselling and most beloved series—together in one volume. It’s an epic tale of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, and a terrorist threat, unlike anything the human race has ever known.
Thomas Hunter is an unlikely hero who finds himself pulled between two worlds. In our reality, he works in a coffeehouse. In the other, he becomes a battle-scarred general leading a band of warriors known as the Circle.
Every time he falls asleep in one reality, he wakes in the other—and both worlds are facing catastrophic disaster. In one world, Thomas must race to outwit sadistic terrorists intent on creating a global pandemic by releasing an unstoppable virus. In the other, far into the future, a forbidden love could forever destroy the Circle’s ragtag resistance.
Thomas can bridge both worlds, but he quickly realizes that he may not be able to save either. In this mind-bending adventure, the fate of both worlds now rests on his ability to shift realities through his dreams—and somehow, find a way to change history.
Four novels. Two worlds. One story.
Wow. I found the premise fascinating and the pace of the book almost more than I could stand. But it was worth the time it took to finish all four books. They were very long and at times the descriptions of evil were almost too much for me. I didn’t read them fast but when I had time, I worked my way through another novel. His writing is stellar and the way he describes the two worlds involved made me feel like I was there. I enjoyed the twists and turns and the unexpected, especially in Green.
The thought of going to sleep in one reality and waking in another is intriguing. I loved the characters and how they became a different person on the outside depending on which world they were in but stayed the same inside. If the series were an amusement park ride, I’d describe it as a Roller Coaster within a Ferris Wheel within a Tilt-A-Whirl.
If you like time travel, terrorists, and epic battles, tied in with a Creator who stays true, you’ll love the Circle Series.
