Jack Staples And The Ring Of Time
Mark Batterson and Joel N. Clark
David C. Cook, Sep 1 2014, $9.99
ISBN: 9780781411073
In Ireland, on his eleventh birthday Jack Staples is at the circus
with his teenage brother Parker and their mother. Ironically while a girl performs on a
tightrope above lions and surrounded by a ring of fire, Jack is the only one in
the audience distracted by a blackbird.
Suddenly all hell breaks loose inside the tent leaving Jack trapped by a
spreading inferno while a terrifying voice demands he help destroy the
Awakened. His sibling and everyone else
made it outside; they all assume Jack died except his mom who insists that The Child of Prophecy lives. Inside, a lion dies saving Jack from the
blaze by covering his body with his.
Most people have scales covering their eyes to keep them from
seeing the evil that surrounds mankind; however Jack’s has fallen off so he now
sees these horrors. He and his BFF Arthur
join the scales-off Awakened who include their elderly teacher Mrs. Dumphry and
her former student Alexia AKA “Wild”.
Jack and Alexia learn both make up The
Children of Prophecy; one will terminate and the other will resuscitate the
Awakened. When the Assassin
attacks the town targeting the pair, they must learn under fire how to fight
back.
Jack Staples (and Alexia) And The Ring
Of Fire hooks readers from the opening act and never slows down in spite of
rapid shifting focus. The Christian good
and evil fantasy is faster than DC’s Flash, as the pace never allows the tweener
audience a respite. Yet the first
Staples story still insures that key players like the yin and yang Children of Prophecy
and their teacher are fully developed.
Harriet Klausner
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