Erik Guzman's The Seed: A True Myth is part Brennan Manning, part C.S. Lewis. This novel is nothing short of a spiritual journey into the personal worlds we create in order to protect ourselves and those we love from the pains of a broken world. In Guzman's own way, he weaves a story that tells the grand biblical narrative of God's unconditional love and its redemptive work in that broken world.
The Seed is a page-turning Christian fantasy. I found myself drawn to Madeline and Roark's desperate flight from The Shadow that destroyed their home and is threatening their lives. Tatus, an older man who has sworn to avenge the death of his family at the hands of The Shadow, becomes a companion whose promise to keep them safe is contingent upon they're building Tatus a fortress. So Madeline and Roark build.
In the process, though Madeline and Roark grow angry and fearful. Because there's an unseen Evil out to destroy them.
We've all had that feeling -- that something's not quite right with the world. It's a Something that's bigger than any one person or any one thing in the world. But it's a Something that keeps us going -- building walls to protect ourselves. And, in the telling of The Seed, we find we are Madeline and Roark. Their story is the story of our spiritual lives.
Part mystery and part drama, The Seed is an amazing myth that weaves a deep Trinitarian theology without all the technical language that pervades in so much Christian mythological telling. That makes The Seed one of the best books I've read in 2016.
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I received a free copy of this book as part of the Speakeasy Blog Review Program in exchange for my honest review here.
The Seed is a page-turning Christian fantasy. I found myself drawn to Madeline and Roark's desperate flight from The Shadow that destroyed their home and is threatening their lives. Tatus, an older man who has sworn to avenge the death of his family at the hands of The Shadow, becomes a companion whose promise to keep them safe is contingent upon they're building Tatus a fortress. So Madeline and Roark build.In the process, though Madeline and Roark grow angry and fearful. Because there's an unseen Evil out to destroy them.
We've all had that feeling -- that something's not quite right with the world. It's a Something that's bigger than any one person or any one thing in the world. But it's a Something that keeps us going -- building walls to protect ourselves. And, in the telling of The Seed, we find we are Madeline and Roark. Their story is the story of our spiritual lives.
Part mystery and part drama, The Seed is an amazing myth that weaves a deep Trinitarian theology without all the technical language that pervades in so much Christian mythological telling. That makes The Seed one of the best books I've read in 2016.
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I received a free copy of this book as part of the Speakeasy Blog Review Program in exchange for my honest review here.