Kingdom's Dawn

by Chuck Black
Available from Amazon
****

The tale of the Bible translated into a medieval Celtic kingdom is the basis for the Kingdom Series. Kingdom’s Dawn, the first in the series, follows Leinad, a young man who typifies many of the early Old Testament characters. Sometimes the allegory seems a little too strained, and Chuck Black does not have the most flowing style, but he certainly has come up with a captivating allegory. Leinad uses his sword, representing the Word, to fight for the King. At one point his people are enslaved in a land, and the allegory is very obvious, as the king who finally lets them go is named “Lord Fairos”. There are other like situations that are made very plain in case anyone might have forgotten what the series really is about. As in Bunyan’s Holy War – which is the best Biblical allegory I have ever read – the same people represent more than one Biblical character or image, so as to have a cohesive story that does not expand over thousands of years. This book correlates to the Biblical account from Creation, through the flood, and into the Egyptian captivity, although often couched in quite different (but very apparent) symbols, all while our hero Leinad is still in his youth. All in all, I enjoyed this book and all the fantastic imagery that reminds one of the Scriptures and their power, and our King.