Infidel–Graphic Novel: The Lost Books Series
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From Chosen to Traitor?
After being stretched to their limits, the four young jungle Guard recruits–Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal–are pulled into deeper danger on their mission to secure the seven lost Books of History. Celebrated as a hero, Johnis’s world is shattered when he learns that his mother may not be dead as presumed but could be living as a slave to the Horde. Throwing caution to the wind, he rushes to her rescue.
But this is precisely what the Horde has plotted. Now he will face a choice between Silvie, whom he is quickly falling for, and his sworn duty to protect the jungle Dwellers. How can he save persons he likes lacking betraying his own people?
In the end, one will be revealed as the Infidel. And nothing will be the same for the remaining Chosen.
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After reading Chosen, I dove directly into Infidel. Ted Dekker show’s his brilliance by changing up the tale, moving the character’s to privileged levels and taking a more indepth look at the time that Thomas Hunter nearly became Horde himself. I’m deeply impressed and can’t wait for the relief of the final two books.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Brilliant follow up to the Circle Trilogy. The development of these new
characters is what I have come to expect from Ted Dekker. Brilliant thriller.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
After reading about fifty pages of Chosen, I returned to Amazon and ordered the rest of the Lost Books, Project Showdown, and the Circle Trilogy. I like his stuff! Infidel, like Chosen, does not disappoint. I can’t place it down!
DEKkER writes the most brilliant Christian fiction, and I hope to someday be as excellent of a writer as he. Dekker and Perretti inspired me to write STAND, the first book in my Chronicles of Trinian Trilogy, and I will have the prequel to STAND out soon.
STAND
Keep up the fantastic work Ted, your imaginative tales, and creative writing continue to be a blessing and inspiration to us all! Keep the tales coming. We can’t get enough!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Warning, if you haven’t read the first book in this series, Chosen (The Lost Books, Book 1) (The Books of History Chronicles), then don’t read this review as it may spoil the first book for you.
Ted Dekker doesn’t seem to know that just because these new books are marketed for a teenage audience, that doesn’t mean he has to dumb down his books. Although I very much loved this book, it still lacks the allegory, the marvel, the vastness and heart of his original Black/Red/White (The Circle Trilogy 1-3). It’s nearly as if he doesn’t trust this younger audience to be able to comprehend the complexity of the originals so he strips them down to their bare bones and voids any and all subtleties to make this new series. These books are excellent entertainment, but after the initial fun they are ultimately missing in depth. The original series, as well as Dekkers older books such as Showdown (Paradise Series, Book 1) (The Books of History Chronicles) and Thr3e were not only fantastic fun, but were also reasonably deep. The new Circle series by comparison seems shallow and heartless. Note to Dekker, most of your readers were teenagers to start with. Just because we are younger does not mean we are incapable of understanding deeper works of fiction. “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in like, in faith and in purity” – Timothy 4:12. Ted Dekker simply doesn’t know how teenagers reflect. Sure, we’d like to be heroes who follow our hearts lacking dread of consequences, but in reality most teenagers simply want to get by. That, from the start of this series, has been Dekker’s major weakness. He doesn’t know how we reflect, how we talk, how we like and dread. You can’t write from the POV of teenagers unless you have a firm grasps of how the teenage mind works, and sorry to say Dekker doesn’t seem to have that. He takes a major step towards understanding in this book, but he’s still not there, and won’t be until he’s willing to throw out the pre-conceived notions most adults have about teenagers and learn how we really reflect. Here’s to hoping he manages to do it some day.
Infidel is the second chapter in Ted Dekker’s new series “The Lost Books” and picks up exactly where Chosen leaves off. Johnis, Silvie, Darsal and Billos are basking in the glow of their new establish glory. They are the talk of the entire Seven Forests after turning back an entire Hord army and saving the forests from nearly certain destruction. Darsal and Billos thrive in the spotlight, while Silvie and Johnis don’t reasonably know what to do with their new fame and the endless stream of well wishers. the bond between the four heroes, and their devotion to the quest to recover the lost seven Books of History has never been stronger then it is right now, but that all changes when Johnis learns that his mother, thought to have been killed by the Hord while searching for medicine for Johnis, may still me alive and living as a slave in the Hord city of Thrall. Now Johnis must chose; does he place the forests in a desperate and suicidal attempt to rescue his mother, or does he continue his quest to find the five remaining lost books at the expense of his mother?
After the incredible ending that Dekker wrote for Chosen, I fully expected him to write a fantastic tale right off the bat; sorry to say though he fails miserably to deliver. The beginning of this book, and by that I mean the first 70 pages or so, are simply horrible. Johnis terns from a semi annoying character to the most arrogant self righteous prick I have ever seen in my entire life, and the rest of the main characters tern into completely incompetent fools who follow his will no matter how crazy he may be despite knowing he’s incorrect because he shames them into it. Every time they raise logical questions about his mindless plans, he says “wasn’t I right about the water? Wasn’t I right about the books? Wasn’t I right about his, or about that, and didn’t we nearly die because you didn’t listen?” and then they do what he wants. For the first 70 pages of this book i not only didn’t like Johnis, but really wished for bodily harm to be done to him for his arrogance and his air of superiority. He’s the chosen one darn it, and no one had better question him. He may no longer be a stereotype, no, but at least for the first part of this book he was nothing but an SOB. In the course of a day he managed to kill 130 jungle Guards because he was “thinking with his heart” and not his brain. Mesa thinks this thinking with your heart thing may be a bit overrated. After the first 70 pages I was nearly ready to place the book down and declare Dekker a has been and go on to another writer.
Another problem I establish annoying was the books predictability. Nearly every plot twist, nearly every turn was simple to see coming. Although I don’t automatically reflect the book is terrible for that, I reflect it could have been a whole lot better if it were a small harder to see what was coming next.
That all changed, but, when Johnis, Silvie, and a minor character from the first book Jackov, travel to the Hord city. There, a completely dreadful and stupid tale terns into one of Dekkers finest. for the first time in the entire series Dekker attempts to bring back the marvel and excitement of the original series, and although he doesn’t reasonably manage to recreate it perfectly, his attempt was well appreciated and made this book a million times better then what it could have been. Dekker has already written about Hord cities in White (The Circle Trilogy, Book 3) (The Lost History Chronicles) but the detail he was able top cram into the 240 large print pages of this book was nothing fleeting of incredible.
The greatest might of this book I reflect is that fact that as a replacement for of de-humanizing the Hord as he had in the first book and in Red (The Circle Trilogy, Book 2) (The Books of History Chronicles) he brings to light the fact that these Scabs, the very people who the jungle Guard have sworn to ruin, are just like the jungle Dwellers. Except for the skin disease that covers their bodies, the Hord is nearly exactly like persons who bath in Elyons lakes. They have their own culture, their own way of livening. They like, they despise, they dance with joy and weep in sorrow. They know dread and suffering as well as any man who lives in the Forests, and are gorgeous in their own way. these “infidels” as the religious leaders in the forests like to call them, are loved and cherished by Elyon every bit as much as the jungle Dwellers, and that’s what makes this tale so touching. Where the first book lacked heart and the beginning of this book lacked understanding, the second part of this book brings these crucial fundamentals back in full force.
Probably the most brilliant plot twist Dekker has ever made was the introduction of a small Scab girl, Karas, into this tale. It may not be as huge a shock as the ending for Thr3e or Skin, and may not be as exiting as anything establish in House and Obsessed, but in one page Dekker puts heart into his tale. The sub plot with Johnis slowly starting to like this incredibly lovable small nine year ancient girl as if she were his own sister is the most touching thing I’ve ever read in a Dekker book. Dekker has permanently managed to throw like into his books, but it was permanently the like of a man for a woman, but never the like of an older sibling to a youngster. As a teenager and older brother I’ve never loved a girl so much to die for her, but I do like my small brothers and my older sister enough to do so for them. The relationship between Johnis and Karas struck a very special cord with me. She was so darn lovable, so young and innocent, that my heart ached for her whenever she was in pain and leapt for joy when she veteran happiness. She is, far and away, the best thing to enter Dekkers mind since the worm mud in Showdown. She not only humanizes the Hord but also turns Johnis from the most arrogant character on the face of the planet to a caring, even likeable guy.
Although Ted Dekker still hasn’t recaptured the magic of his pre Saint (Paradise Series, Book 2) (The Books of History Chronicles) days, he took a major step closer to returning to where he once was. The rest of the series has incredible potential and could really be Dekkers crowning achievement if he sticks to a few simple rules.
1) Avoid stereotypes. Continue to renovate the main characters into rich 3 dimensional characters.
2) Don’t dumb it down. Bring back the allegory and depth of the original series.
3) Make the characters likeable. Don’t make me want to hurt teh main characters.
3) Don’t turn your back on Karas; make her an active part of the tale.
4) And finally, write from the heart.
You can be sure that I will be at the book store in May when the two follow up novels, Renegade (The Lost Books, Book 3) (The Books of History Chronicles) and Chaos (The Lost Books, Book 4) (The Books of History Chronicles) are unrestricted. Also, look for Dekkers next book Adam coming out in April.
Re-read value; low.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I ongoing with Black,White,Red & Green. Went on to Sinner,Saint and chose to go back and read The Lost Books. I cant stop reading them. It takes a lot to keep my interest when reading and these books have. I have read the first 3 Chosen,Infidel & Reneagade. I have ordered the remaining 3. if you want to read The Lost books I recommend you go thru Black,Red,White & Green first then go back an read these exciting books.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5