Ted Dekker's Green is the New Black
Ted Dekker Completes The Circle of The Circle Trilogy
Nov 4, 2009
Green is the new installment of what was Ted Dekker’s Circle Trilogy. Touted as ‘Book Zero’, Green completes the Circle, and the reader can either begin or end at Green.
Summary of Green
Contrary to the original ‘beginning’ of the Trilogy in Black, Green begins not in our world in the present time, but in the world two thousand years in the future, in the world of the Horde and the Gathering and Elyon. Thomas of Hunter is the leader of the albinos, married to Chelise, the daughter of Quorong – the leader of the Horde. Samuel, his son, is now grown up and is questioning the very principles of peace that the Circle is founded on. He even questions if Elyon is going to return. He is not the only one – he brings out other dissenters and the Circle fractures.
Those who are reading Green before reading the rest of the Circle are thrown into this world, and this book, like all the others, that shifts from our reality to Thomas’ reality in the world of the future. Those who are reading Green after the rest of the Circle will welcome old friends and understand the story of how Thomas (and Kara and Monique in our world) became who they are now.
Ties to The Lost Books Series and The Saint, Sinner, and Showdown Trilogy
Not only relating to the Circle Trilogy, Green brings in elements of the recently released Lost Books series, and hearkens back to the Saint, Sinner, and Showdown trilogy, where the Books of History were first introduced – and written in by Billy Rediger. Although Dekker says that Green can be read before the rest of the Circle trilogy, reading the Saint, Sinner, and Showdown trilogy first gives a more complete understanding of this book.
Fans of previous Dekker books can be assured of his typical style in this fast-paced novel. He does not spend time on lengthy narratives to show the character of an individual in the book – he lets their actions speak for themselves. Every detail of his alternate world is precise, even down to the lovable Roush.
Even though Ted Dekker is writing purely fiction, the elements of the spiritual world that become physically visible in the world of the future gives one pause when it comes to our world today – what is unseen in our world and yet still powerful? What disease may we have, believing that we’re healthy? Dekker’s allegorical tales always bring the questions back to our world today.
Ending with what seems like the beginning of Black, Dekker truly completes the Circle. As always, Ted Dekker provides another novel that is difficult to put down and to be read and reread ravenously.
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