Black

Book One, The Birth of Evil

By: Ted Dekker

Narrated by: Rob Lamont

Fleeing assailants through alleyways in Denver late one night, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of an industrial building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head and his world goes black. When he awakes, he finds himself in an entirely different reality, a green forest that seems more real than where he was. Every time he tries to sleep, he wakes up in the other world, and soon he truly no longer knows which reality is real. Slowly he realizes that each reality dramatically impacts the other. In each world unspeakable evil is unleashed and millions of lives hang in the balance. The fate of two worlds depends on the actions of one man: Thomas Hunter.Don't miss any of Ted Dekker's Circle Trilogy. Also, listen to this free interview with the author.©2004 Ted Dekker (P)2004 Oasis Audio LLC

Should be Section One, not Book One

I'm a sucker for a sequel to a good story, that's probably why I picked this one. The Book One subtitle infers that if I like this one, I can try the next.
Totally misleading. This title just stops, with a contrived cliff-hanger. Not a complete Book, One or otherwise.
On the plus side, the story is engaging and actually very original, which only contributes to the frustration at the end.
I have to admit, I'm intrigued, not only to find out what happens next, but to find out how this can be only one-third of the story, it seems so close to completion...
Some other reviews have mentioned the veiled Christian dogma, but unless it is coming in later volumes, so far so good. Or should I say, Good and Evil?

Fun read during Covid-19

In the second public year of the Covid-19 virus, this 2005 story made very interesting reading. Now, onward to Red (book two in the series).

I’d like to hear more differentiation between the female and male voices.

Needs a different narrator, but great story!

Any additional comments?

I listened to Green first (Book zero) and was interested in the story and have the entire series in paperback at home and have been meaning to read it. I started Black in paperback at home before I started listening to the series. Then after I got my credits I download Green and listened to it and then started on Black and this Narrator is way to fast and doesn't change their voice at all with the different characters and completely ignores any periods or commas it seems. The narrator really takes away from the story sometimes because you have to figure out who is saying what at times. I tend to listen to these while I am working and it becomes distracting at times because of having to concentrate on listening so you know when there are two different people talking. To me, it seems like he is reading long run-on sentences very fast rather than a conversation between people at times. Unfortunately Black, Red, & White are all read by the same narrator and I'm not really looking forward to listening to the rest of them like this. I am really glad that I can get my credits back because of the narrator. I'll gladly read the rest of them at home in paperback to get the rest of the story. Overall though the story is excellent and very interesting.

Edge of your seat adventure

Ted Dekker has a way of writing that draws you in. He writes about worthy characters and how they move through turmoil and become better. This series is keeping me on the edge of my seat! I was going to wait for my next àudible credit to get the next book, but I couldn't the wait. I got the second in the series the very next day. Anxious for the story to continue. Thank you Audible and Ted Dekker!

incredible story.

I loved the book. I couldn't stop reading. it was exciting and heart pounding.awesome.narrator did great.