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Book Review: Auralia's Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet

By Melissa Markham on November 28, 2007 5:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

AURALIA'S COLORS

(WaterBrook Press September 4, 2007)

Jeffrey Overstreet

About the Author:

Jeffrey Overstreet lives in two worlds. By day, he writes about movies at LookingCloser.org and in notable publications like Christianity Today, Paste, and Image.

His adventures in cinema are chronicled in his book Through a Screen Darkly. By night, he composes new stories found in fictional worlds of his own. Living in Shoreline, Washington, with his wife, Anne, a poet, he is a senior staff writer for Response Magazine at Seattle Pacific University.

Auralia’s Colors is his first novel. He is now hard at work on many new stories, including three more strands of The Auralia Thread.

I just finished reading Auralia's Color's and I am wondering when the next installment will be coming out (I understand there are three more to come).

In the tradition of Tolkein, Donaldson, and Brooks, Jeffrey Overstreet has created a land full of mystery, mythology, heros, heroines, disaster and triumph. From the minute I read of a small baby being found nestled in a very large footprint, I was hooked. There is a huge cast of characters in this story and their lives are woven together in a colorful tapestry of love, sacrifice, deceipt and betrayal. Auralia is the main thread of this particular story...a position she doesn't totally understand or want. She lightens the lives of those around her and it is obvious she is destined for greatness, but she doesn't want to be great.

By the end of the story, Auralia remembers who she is and what she is to do. Along with her discoveries, others discover who they are and what their purpose is. Many fall along the way, while others are raised up to new levels of existence and responsibility.

If you enjoy good fantasy writing, you will enjoy this story. And, like me, you will be clamoring for more. I am hanging onto this book, but if you want to get your own copy, you can either buy it yourself, or leave a note for your significant other...they are wondering just what to get you for Christmas, aren't they? There is nothing better than a good book!

Happy Holidays! And Happy Reading!