“A faithbreaker is anyone who speaks with the spirits of
animals and the dead, magicians and diviners, shamans. Someone who tears apart
the faith and undermines what we believe. Which is, of course forbidden in the
Codex. But come on, that’s just in the Codex. Stories. It’s not like there are
any real people today who are as evil as a faithbreaker.”
“That’s what I used to think, Ori, but I think we just saw
one in action.”
She had to ponder for a moment before she realized what he
was trying to say. Could he really mean…
“I’m telling you Ori, he’s a faithbreaker and if he is…”
Book: Trion Rising
Genre: Science Fiction/Allegory
Target Audience: Boys and
Girls 13+
Subjects: Faith, Truth,
Salvation, Jesus’ death and resurrection
Summary: The new music teacher
at school is rather different. But in a good way. He seems to know what the
kids are thinking and treats them with love and gentleness, but at the same
time pulls their very best out of them. He challenges their thinking and opens
their minds to music they’ve never dared to play before. Many of the students
are completely embracing him, including Oriannon. The adults don’t seem to
agree though, especially the council… including her own father who wants her to
use her special powers of memory to spy on Jesmet and report to the council
anything suspicious that happens. Jesmet completely earns Oriannon’s trust
though when he brings her dead friend back to life after a sudden accident and
then risks his life to save hers when a wild animal nearly attacks her. The
same events that convinces her to put her trust in him, convince the council to
carry out the full penalty of punishment against this faithbreaker as they
believe him to be and Jesmet is executed. In her despair, Oriannon finds
herself in the last place she would have expected to be and finds more hope
than she ever thought possible.
Notes: Trion Rising is the first in the
Shadowside Trilogy. The series is an allegorical tale of Jesus ministry on
earth, death and resurrection and some of the events of Acts – the persecution
of Christians and the spread of the Gospel. The story is set in a
science-fiction world with spaceships traveling to various planets and
scientific development being a main focus of the world.
In Trion Rising, the main characters
are introduced, the Jesus figure arrives on the scene, develops followers, brings
a dead person back to life, teaches following the truth over man-made rules, is
betrayed, killed and rises from the dead. Oriannon is introduced to the people
on the other side of the planet who are different from the lies she has been
told about them. She finds what it means to place her faith and trust in the
Jesus figure.
Spiritual Content Recommendation Scale: 5/5
Reviewer: J:-)mi
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 – For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
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