Christian Fiction Worth Reading
September 22nd, 2006
The cover image shows a blond-haired, blue-eyed knight in shining armor and his white-robed damsel in distress. The series title is Legends of the Guardian King. You immediately dismiss it as trite, poorly-written, romatic fantasy. Not so fast.
In The Light of Eidon and its sequels, Karen Hancock has crafted an intelligent, fast-paced allegory with well-developed characters and excellent insight into the life of faith. Middle-aged male readers (like myself) love it. Teenage female readers (like my daughters) are enthralled. Any Christian will be thoroughly entertained while simultaneously encouraged to trust more fully in our sovereign God who holds all things under his control.
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Karen Hancock’s first book, Arena, is amazingly profound; giving the Christian reader fresh new ways of looking at life and what it means to be in direct relationship to God. Hancock’s metaphor for prayer as seen in this book is a great encouragement for the daily life of communion with God. My overall thoughts about the book: excellent! excellent! excellent!