Haunted by "Black"

This is the only word to describe my experience with this book. Haunted.

Not the kind of book I would generally be drawn to. I failed to notice the "Inspirational" sticker that the library had given it. I'm not sure exactly what this label means, but I think it is code for "religious" or "Christian".

The book is kind of a strange cross between sci-fi, thriller, and Christain inspiration. This description makes it sound like a book destined for the "Life too Short" list, but I'm liking it in spite of myself. A regular Joe Schmo (or so it seems) suddenly begins entering another world/universe when he falls asleep in the "real world". The alternate world is divided between the colored forest (GOOD) in which the people and angel-like creatures live and the black forest (EVIL) where the bats live. Good and evil have not mixed in this dimension. Here he learns all sorts of crazy things about what is soon to happen in the "real world". Based on this info from the dream world he embarks on a quest to save the real world.

Sounds super cheesy, I know. For some reason this book is doing it for me right now. I am not exactly sure why, except that I am intrigued by the religious elements and how Dekker weaves that into the story.

This is the first book in the trilogy. I will have to read the others....