Finally, WHITE...

I got to read the 3rd book in the Dekker trilogy last week. WHITE was the conclusion to the overlapping worlds story of Thomas Hunter. It was worth the read.

I am impressed with Dekker's work. He is a good writer, but his best skill is the creativity at making allusion. So many authors these days who are trying to allude to truth in their work end up banging you over the head with that truth. Dekker is softer, gentler and, in my opinion, more interested in you getting the story than in you getting his truth. He knows that if you get the story, the truth will work its way into your psyche. Maybe even at a better, deeper level than intellectual understanding of truth...

The novel brings to a close (an open-ended close however) the story of the Circle, a group of Scabs who have been bathed in the pool of Justin's redemption. In WHITE, the Circle debates their own relationship with those who are still the diseased Scabs. There are those who would return to fighting and killing the Scabs as Elyon's enemy. There are those that believe the Circle should make peace with the Scabs and maybe even lower their standards so that Scabs are more welcomed in the Circle. Then there are those willing to risk it all for the love of Scabs, even willing to die for one of them.

I recommend the books. And looking at http://www.teddekker.com/ it seems that he's about to release the trilogy as a set of graphic novels later this fall. That should be worth looking into...