It's tough to beat a trilogy that gets better as it goes along and leaves you satisfied with the resolution and hopeful for another installment. In The Sword and The Gift, Bryan Litfin follows Ana and Teo from the kingdom of Chiveis to Rome, where they are seeking the message of a God they have not known. In The Kingdom, Litfin brings their story to a close, as they face down evil, persisting in a desire to serve this loving God and to take his message home to Chiveis.
Litfin certainly has a strong theological message, which constitutes the driving core of the story. But he weaves that message with intrigue, action, human moral struggles, romance, battles, and a wrestling of good versus evil. Due to some of the content--not graphic or prurient, but suggestive and violent at times--this series is best for teens and adults. These aren't children's books.
Above all, the Chiveis trilogy takes the reader back to the basics of the faith that Christians follow. If all we had was the Old Testament, what does that tell us about God? If then we discover the New Testament, what would our faith look like in the absence of any institutions or individual believers to guide us in our faith? What must it be like to learn for the first time that the pierced one and the glorious king are one and the same person?
Take a trip to the future in the Chiveis trilogy and enjoy!
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