I met Jamie’s somber gaze and saw my own horror reflected on
his face. What we’d feared most had happened – the erosion of the borders had
taken its first human life. My only hope was that together, my VFF and I could
off another miracle. “Oh God,” I prayed. “Please let Kenna get here soon!”
Genre: Fantasy/Supernatural
Target Audience: Girls 16+
Subjects: Magic, Witchcraft, Prayer, Dating Relationships,
Friendship, Family Relationships, Love
Summary: Kenna is trying to live the carefree life of a
Broadway actor back in New York
but it’s not going as well as she would like. Success leaves an empty taste in
one’s mouth if all you can think about is the boy you left behind in a world
that only appears every hundred years. And besides, she’s not as successful as
she’d like to be anyway. So when the call comes from her best friend who gave
up this world to live in Doon forever, Kenna
knows she really has no choice, no matter how hard it will be. The biggest
challenge is to not let her escort, Duncan, know that she left because she
loved him too much to let him sacrifice everything familiar and loved just to
follow her. Once she gets back to Doon though, she realizes her problems are a
whole lot bigger than her secret love for Duncan.
The witch may be destroyed but some curse is destroying the land and the people
of the land. Once again, Kenna and Vee need to pull off a miracle to save the land of Doon.
Notes: Doon is a the second in a new spin-off series about
the legend of Brigadoon or Bridge ‘o Doon, the story that a village in
Scotland, in an attempt to fight off the evil influence from the rest of the
world, prayed and was blessed with the ability to disappear into the mist and
only make contact with the world every hundred years. In this story, characters
can come and go from Brigadoon during that time as well as any time if they are
wearing one of two magical rings. This story is very focused on the romance
aspects. Both girls have just graduated from high school, both come from broken
or at least single-parent homes and are looking to control their own destinies.
Doon is a world that
encourages the exact
opposite. They have a strong belief in magic and destiny and some form of
ultimate-being. The spiritual elements are hinted at all throughout this book.
The two girls wonder and doubt and consider the possibility of the power of
prayer and how much God is or should be involved in their lives. One of the
people in Doon explains their views that the
civilization’s “Creator” or “Protector” is outside the laws of nature and does
amazing things that for lack of a better understanding, people call “magic”.
Everyone in Doon attends church and to the
girls, the princes seem to hold a strong faith. But the book is careful to not
make anything too clear. They never outright say that God is the “Protector” of
Doon or that putting one’s trust in Him for
salvation is necessary. The “Protector” is a benevolent, powerful being, but
not necessarily involved in their day to day lives at all, more just there for
emergencies.
In this second book, Vee seems to have accepted a bit more that God is a being that gives power and she prays to Him for help. They also believe strongly in the power of the evil though – the witch, curses, old texts saying how to break curses, etc.
In this second book, Vee seems to have accepted a bit more that God is a being that gives power and she prays to Him for help. They also believe strongly in the power of the evil though – the witch, curses, old texts saying how to break curses, etc.
Overall, this is an entertaining story, but there isn’t much of
spiritual value in it. Everything is just left in vague, unclear terms, leaving
the reader to just form their own opinions rather than presenting the
Scripture.
Spiritual Content Recommendation Scale: 1/5
Reviewer: J:-)mi
James 4:13-17 – Now listen,
you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a
year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do
not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that
appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought
to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this
or that." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it,
sins.
- a fun way to dig into their Bible. I used to have this book and I have some pages scanned if you'd like to see them.
- same kind of thing - not quite a devotion book as much as a doodle and do quizzes and look up passages as you think about your faith. I already have 2 copies of this we can give out.
- updated version of the last one - might not be able to get this because it looks like they are releasing another update this summer which probably means all current editions are not available.
- have not explored this myself but it at least looks somewhat intriguing
- just a fictional book series that does an excellent job challenging young girls to think about their faith. There are currently 3 books in the series. 
- a 12 book series geared a little bit more at 5th-6th grade but very very relevant to this age group in many ways. Even more fun would be if we could get the companion series - each fictional book has a nonfiction companion that includes fun little quizzes and stories and activities to explore what God's Word says on things such as beauty, deciding what kind of hobby to pursue, throwing a party, friendship, bullies, standing up for injustice, submitting to authority when you want your independence, etc. Unfortunately, they have only re-released the first two in both the fictional series and the companion series so getting our hands on them requires ordering from amazon. We could try finding someone who has an amazon prime account so we could get free shipping - they'd be really cheap then!
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