Outlaw
Ratings5
Average rating3.6
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Ratings5
Average rating3.6
The story of how I, Julian Carter, and my precious two-year old son, Stephen, left Atlanta Georgia and found ourselves on a white sailboat, tossed about like a cork on a raging sea off of Australia's northern tip in 1963, is harrowing. But it pales in comparison to what happened deep in the jungle where I was taken as a slave by a savage tribe unknown to the world. Some places dwell in darkness so deep that even God seems to stay away. There, my mind was torn in two by the gods of the earth. There, one life ended so another could begin. Some will say I was a fool for making the choices I made. But they would have done the same. They, too, would have embraced death if they knew what I knew, and saw through my eyes. My name is Julian and this is my story. But more, it is the story of my son who was born to change the world. From deep in the impenetrable jungles where New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker was born and raised, comes OUTLAW, an epic adventure of two worlds that perhaps only he could write. Full of harrowing twists, sweeping violence, and wild love, Outlaw takes us beyond the skin of this world to another unseen. - Publisher.
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I usually get swallowed up in a Ted Dekker book from page one. This was not the case for me in Outlaw. I struggled to identify with the main character and did not expect a Dekker book to take its time building a foreign world. Once I got to part two of the book, I saw that slow build in part one was necessary to get where he was going.
Dekker is more direct with his message in this book than most. It is easy to focus on one aspect of the message rather than trying to see the bigger picture. The overarching message is that sons and daughters of God have nothing to fear in this world. That is what I love about the story and how the characters struggle with this in reality versus in belief. I do see some of the details differently than Dekker, and that is why it is important to keep the major theme in kind foremost. The secondary theme them became more clear to me: when we see people and the world from God's perspective, we become free of fear and free to forgive.
Het eerste gedeelte van het boek is ontzettend goed en geloofwaardig geschreven. Je waant je echt midden in de jungle en de spanning zorgt er voor dat je blijft doorlezen. Toen ik aan het tweede gedeelte begon nam het tempo snel af en werd het steeds meer religieus en waardoor het einde voor mij erg tegenviel.
