by Ted Dekker
I think I’m giving Ted 2.5-3 stars for this one. I’m somewhat confused by the ending. On the one hand, I loved what the Outlaw character said to Austin:
“There are no longer any problems to solve. If there are no longer any problems to solve there’s no longer any need for correction. If there’s no need for correction, then there’s no need for law. Live in the grace of that which is perfect already, as it is. Be perfect, don’t try to become perfect. You already are, you just don’t know it yet. Be still and know.”
This is something I think God has me contemplating in my own life.
But I struggled to see the story as a whole or how it flowed into the ending. I felt like I was missing some of the bigger picture, even though I’ve read about the Outlaw character before, or Stephen, and the monastery and the monks. Perhaps the next books will clear things up for me a little more, and I will look back and appreciate these four instalments more.
It was still certainly a page turner full of adventure and questions about reality. And I am left questioning reality myself after reading it 🙂
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