Jerusalem Blade
Puritan Board Professor
Anybody here read any of Lee Duigon's Bell Mountain Series? Ostensibly children's books, I found them quite addicting last year when I read the extant 11 books in the series (the 12th one, His Mercy Endureth Forever, is about to come out any day now). I read them on Kindle (via Amazon) as the price of the paperback was too high for me (tight budget), plus I get credits on Kindle buys if I order Amazon stuff with deliveries a week or so later.
It is really high adventure, and Lee's faith (he's a believer) powerfully informs the entire work, especially the various protagonists' hearts and lives. They're published by the Chalcedon Foundation, so you might expect their theology to be present in his presentation. The one thing I noticed in that area was that almost all of the main characters didn't die in the terrible conflicts and adventures they went through, and I realized that this reflected the Postmil view of things.
That said, I very much appreciated the stories (stories with the larger story), and the characters. It was far more Biblical than LOTR, though it was not actually Biblical, but not what you'd call fantasy per se. It's almost a genre unto itself. As soon as I read the first in the series, Bell Mountain, I was hooked. Highly recommended.
It is really high adventure, and Lee's faith (he's a believer) powerfully informs the entire work, especially the various protagonists' hearts and lives. They're published by the Chalcedon Foundation, so you might expect their theology to be present in his presentation. The one thing I noticed in that area was that almost all of the main characters didn't die in the terrible conflicts and adventures they went through, and I realized that this reflected the Postmil view of things.
That said, I very much appreciated the stories (stories with the larger story), and the characters. It was far more Biblical than LOTR, though it was not actually Biblical, but not what you'd call fantasy per se. It's almost a genre unto itself. As soon as I read the first in the series, Bell Mountain, I was hooked. Highly recommended.
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