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Date: 04 May 2005 12:03:25
A couple of youth work contacts at the R4A thing congratulated me on the positive review in the Youthwork magazine.. Which I hadn't seen. Emailed the editor this morning and he got back to me 'as quick as' with the text of the review that contains phrases like:
Wow, what a page-turner this book is! I just couldn't put it down and became more and more intrigued as I read.
Why is Jamie Meek so important? And why…? Ahh you'll have to get the book to find the answers…
((please do :) but to be fair here I had probably better mention that you won't find out why Jamie is so important - or at least what his role is to further complicate the issue - until book three... Anyhow back to the quoteses))
If I had one criticism it would be the author's theology of spiritual warfare. It borders on being a bit too much fantasy for my liking and could worry less discerning teenagers.
((actually if I can deal with that for a second... I do make two caveats in the book, and they are probably the only two caveats in there. One is that at the very end of the book I say that 'I don't know how, exactly, God works.. I just know that God Works'. By which I mean that I don't whether he made the world with protons, electrons or sticky back plastic. What I care about is that he made the world. I don't know how he has a hand on my life, I just know that he does etc. The second caveat is something that Dr Sylver says to Jamie at the tail end of the book.. He asks her what he has seen and she says something along the lines of 'what you saw was your minds way of interpreting the vastness of the spiritual dimension.. It's not for us to fully understand, just to participate in from a human standpoint via prayer, faith etc...' SO when Jamie see's *ahem* what he see's at the end Dr Sylver does say that that is a perceptional thing, rather than a descriptive thing. If someone pulls you from a burning car shortly before it explodes is the important thing that your live was saved or whether that person had blue eyes or brown hair or whatever? Or whether he pulled you out wuth his hands or with a stick?
... anyhow this is something that I do want to further explore in books 2 and 3, because it does seem to be catching a couple of people with taking the content literally (even though the caveats sort of say not to) so I apologise for not being able to put that across well enough - go easy on me Dr Sylver 1 is my first written anything - and hope that I can explain myself better in the future... Time for one last quote?))
But it's a really good read and I liked the author's style of writing. It was very engaging and hooked me right from the beginning. I look forward to the second instalment of the Sylver Chronicles.
Yay! Thanks!
And I'm looking forward to seeing book 2. and 3 for that matter. Partially because it means I'll have finished them :) :) and partially because the end of both books make me smile and want to spoil things and tell people what'll happen! There's a clue in this post for example but for the moment I shall remain as tight lipped as I can.
Thanks to all at Youthwork the magazine for the positive comments (this isn't the full review incidentally, please do all go out and buy a copy for the rest of it :~) but leave one copy in the Guildford Wesley Owen for me to pick up later ta).
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