He finds out that his great-uncle Archie, who died years before, had set a plan in motion to build him a house, a large beautiful beach-front property–achingly close to the spot where his mother drowned when he was nine years old. He’s got a great girlfriend, an 80-hour-a-week job, and opportunity to travel. Micah Taylor’s a driven man, a young software multimillionaire. Published 2010 by B&H Publishing, 382 pages This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged christian fairy tale, christian fantasy book, cs lakin, review, the land of darkness on Apby Editor. What it is and means becomes clear only at the climax of the book, and it’s a beautiful thing, very memorable. What I most enjoyed about this book was the central metaphor of a bridge, the bridge that Callen has gone looking for.
Lakin does a good job of setting the stage, crafting characters, writing believable scenes, and so on, all the tools of the writer’s craft. Where will their adventure lead them? What will they learn? When murder fails, the stepmother sends Jadiel on a fool’s errand.Īnd so Jadiel, age 12, and Callen, age 31, meet up on the road, each on an impossible quest. Finally the stepmother tries to kill Jadiel, but Jadiel has good advice from a talking toad. The evil stepmother and her two daughters make Jadiel’s life fully miserable. Her father has married a beautiful woman who’s really, Jadiel suspects, a hag who has bewitched him. Meanwhile, the master of his woodworking shop has a niece who’s in serious trouble. He decides to take a little trip to see if he can find out more about the bridge. At the same time, there are some elements more common to traditional fairy tales, such as talking toads and a witch casting spells.Ĭallen, a woodworker’s apprentice, finds an amazingly intricate drawing of carvings on a mysterious wooden bridge.
Lakin is writing what she calls fairy tales, but which I would call well-developed allegory, like Pilgrim’s Progress with more description added. Genre: Christian allegory, suitable for middle grade and upĬ.S. Published by AMG Publishers, 2011, 313 pages
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