Book Brief - Chosen

Chosen
Ted Dekker
Thomas Nelson (January 1, 2008)

Elyon’s beautiful creation has been overtaken and destroyed by the Horde. The Forest Guard now has to recruit older teenagers to fight and defend the remnant. Four new recruits have been sent on a quest to prove their worth. They are intercepted by the Horde along the way and find that their quest has been forcibly turned into a mission to save the remnant by finding the seven lost Books of History.

Ted Dekker’s books are always well written with “movie-like” pacing. This book is no exception with action, adventure and suspense abundant. His books, however, are always, to me at least, on the cusp of bizarre. They tend to be a little violent, with weird scenes of “almost” torture, hallucinations, and evil creatures throughout. I hesitate to recommend this for all, but, his themes are moral and, for the right person, this is an exciting beginning to the Books of History series.

“Lovely things, these daughters and sons of Elyon, but so pigheaded at times. Thought they knew everything. Even after changing their minds five times on the same matter, they didn’t pause to consider the fact that they might be wrong this sixth time as well. Heaven forbid! They would fight for the sixth opinion with as much conviction as the first.”

“Now you listen to me, human. You were dead already. Your life isn’t yours to decide any longer. You were saved by Johnis, for Elyon’s love! Are you so thickheaded?”

Rating: Borrow