Shelfari: The Site for Books & ReadersShelfari Logo

Showdown (Paradise Series, Book 1) (The Books of History Chronicles)
 

Showdown

by Ted Dekker

Welcome to Paradise.

Epic battles of good and evil are happening all around us.

Today that battle comes to town with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. The black-cloaked man arrives in the sleepy town of Paradise and manages to become the talk of the town within the hour. Bearing the power to grant any unfulfilled dream,... (read more)

Top tags: thriller,  christian fiction,  fiction,  christian,  mystery (all tags)

Readers

Groups

  • TDekker Fans Discussion Group
  • Savant Brotherhood Discussion Group
  • Ted_Dekker Discussion Group
  • Christian Woman's Book Club Discussion Group

Other Reviews

Amazon Reviews (5)
 

Most Helpful Reviews

Liked It

Tonya V
  • Rated 4 stars

“This book FREAKED ME OUT! I read it while I was camping and could not stop thinking about it...I still think about it. Quiet the thriller! A scary religious novel.”

Tonya V’s full review »
more reviews »

Didn’t Like It

Samwise G
  • Rated 2 stars

“There is some interesting stuff here but the climax is just so ridiculously silly. If you are going to go to the trouble of writing a book at least write and ending that doesn't have such a simplistic and blatant agenda as well as being just not all that creative. It's contrived novel writing at best.”

Samwise G’s full review »
more reviews »
Community:
  • Rated 3.881721 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.016666 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • matt w

    matt w said:

    “i find this book to be gripping but the biginning at the monostary really blows”

    posted Monday, May 5 2008
  • freegirl

    freegirl said:

    “My book club and I are currently reading Showdown and we will be getting together this Sun. evening for our final discussion of this book. I think it's kind of cool how Ted seems to make you check yourself. Too many people are scared to really face what is in them and deal with it. It's always easy to wear a mask instead of exposing the good, the bad and the ugly - so we can get delivered , healed and move on.”

    posted Tuesday, October 16 2007
  • nono n

    nono n said:

    “Who are you?I want to mmet you.”

    posted Saturday, October 13 2007
  • Adam Blumer

    adam blumer said:

    “Okay, this novel is just plan weird. I understand what Dekker was trying to do, but I just couldn't suspend my disbelief long enough to take the book seriously. He deserves admiration for his use of allegory. The only problem is . . . it doesn't work. Still, the novel was hard to put down. ”

    posted Friday, September 7 2007
© 2008 Tastemakers, Inc. | Portions of Shelfari.com are Copyright © 1996-2008 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy