Green (The Circle, Book 0: The Beginning and the End) | Ted Dekker

Green (The Circle, Book 0: The Beginning and the End) | Ted Dekker | Green

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	Green (The Circle, Book 0: The Beginning and the End) Ted Dekker Thomas Nelson, 2009 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 233 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

AS FORETOLD BY ANCIENT PROPHETS, an apocalypse destroyed Earth during the twenty-first century. But two thousand years later Elyon set upon the earth a new Adam. This time, however, He gave humanity an advantage. What was once unseen became seen. It was good and it was called...Green.

But the evil Teeleh bided his time in a Black Forest.

Then, when least expected, a twenty-four year old named Thomas Hunter fell asleep in our world and woke up in that future Black Forest. A gateway was opened for Teeleh to ravage the land. Devastated by the ruin, Thomas Hunter and his Circle swore to fight the dark scourge until their dying breath.

But now The Circle has lost hope. Samuel, Thomas Hunter's cherished son, has turned his back on his father. He gathers the dark forces to wage a final war. Thomas is crushed and desperately seeks a way back to our reality to find the one elusive hope that could save them all.

Enter an apocalyptic story like none you have read. A story with links to our own history so shocking that you will forget you are in another world at all. Welcome to GREEN. Book Zero.

FOUR NOVELS. TWO WORLDS. ONE STORY.

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Thrilling

Green (The Circle, Book 0: The Beginning and the End)

Great book. Gotta love a four-book trilogy! Currently reading it and enjoying every page. Won't take long to finish it - it will all be over too soon! Would be great if more of Ted Dekker's colours were to continue coming in the vein of these books - Red, Black, White and now Green.

Green

Green, by Ted Dekker, is the beginning and the end of the Circle Series. Book 0.
How can one book start and finish a series? I'm still not exactly sure, but Green did! Picking up where White left off and leaving off where Black picks up, Green completes the series. It pulls in the Circle Series and the Paradise Series, and answered a lot of questions that I had in reading the other books.

It has been ten years of running and hiding for the Circle of albinos. The Horde has relentlessly threatened them and even killed people to prove their hatred for Elyon's lovers. Samuel of Hunter, Thomas Hunter's son, is ready to wage war on the Horde. Thomas and his wife Chelise try to convince the dividing Circle that killing Horde goes against all that Elyon has shown them and would only bring more violence. Thomas issues a challenge to the Horde leader and Dark Priest, hoping to end the debating, but things spin out of control. Samuel allies with the Half-breeds and nearly half the Circle follows him.

In desperation to save his son and the Circle Thomas returns to the Histories. While there, Kara Hunter and Monique de Raison are asked by a mind-reading, red-headed, young man to reveal a guarded secret that could prove disastrous. Here in lyes the connection to the Paradise Series.

I did find it to be more violent then the other Circle books and some of the gruesome images of blood (Vampirism) were rather disgusting (just as a warning to younger readers and/or those with a light stomach.) I will say that Dekker's delve into the whole Vampire rave was a bit disappointing.

Over all I would say it is a must read in the Circle Series. If you read it as book one it makes a bit more sense for the sake of Thomas' son. If read as book 4 it really ties the whole series together.

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It's........ okay.

I agree with many of the skeptics about this book. My main issue is that I really could not follow many of the obvious back-plots, not having read any of the other books. "Green" is marketed as "Book 0: The beginning and the end." I like the idea and the premise of 4 books completing and complementing each other, and supposedly can be read in any order. This is supposed to be the first (or last) book of the series, and I thought it would be good to read it first. However, I'm sure I would have appreciated many parts of the story if I have read the other books. I am giving it three stars as a stand-alone book (I would give it 7 stars out of 10, but out of 5 stars I cannot give a 3.5 star rating, and I cannot give this book 4 stars). Maybe after having read the other three books I will change my mind and would want to increase (or decrease?) the rating.

Read Amazon's "Product Description" for a brief teaser synopsis. If you haven't read the book yet, DO NOT read too many of the reviews because there are lots of spoilers.

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Definitely read the other three in the Circle series first

I will attempt to avoid spoilers here so I will purposefully remain vague. For a more detailed review with spoilers go to: [...]

I was not terribly disappointed with Dekker's long awaited "Green" however - I wasn't thrilled either. I would recommend if you have read the series, read it again before tackling "Green," if you haven't read the series, definitely read it before reading "Green."

Now that I have completed "Green" I'm re-reading "Black," "White," and "Red." I'm doing so in the hopes that some unclear matters will become clear for me. Overall - this series ends up being a lot of work. Sadly, i mean a lot of work for the reader. Dekker weaves in a number themes from his other books which I found to be a tad irritating even though I had read some of his other related books. Also irritating is he uses actual characters from his other supposedly non-related works which was confusing and disappointing given the fact Dekker can be such a master story teller.

I also do not agree that this book could be the beginning or the end of the story. Yes but for the most part, no. Read the trilogy first, then last "Green."

If this had been the first in the series, I'm not certain I would have picked up the rest. However - once I go through his recap of the story - it was definitely a page-turner. I freely admit - I didn't quite understand the allegory in full, nor did I understand how everything came together given that "Green" was supposed to "complete" the story. It actually left me with many questions forcing me to search the internet and re-read the series.

Dekker can weave an epic - and the two worlds he creates are fantastic - but had I not promised to blog the review for Thomas Nelson's "Book Sneeze" I'm not sure I would have bothered with this book at all. Now that I've read it, it's fair to say I wish I had at least reread the series first before trusting that "Green" could be the "beginning or the ending" for all the books as it is touted. This story is a great epic allegory and Dekker has created a masterful story in the original trilogy - but sadly"Green" is not without its faults.

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