Review: Great Book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2014
What a delight to get back to Valley Landers and in touch with the wonderful characters Stanton has created in his series, The Warrior Kind. We find our hero warrior from book one, Roric, matured and fully accepting of his destiny as the Valley Lander's leader. We saw him unpolished and uncertain at times in the first book, but he has clearly realized this is God's plan for his life and he allows God's annointing to work through him. He has also became a spiritual leader.The life lessons Stanton brings through his characters seep into your being even as you are engrossed in a storyline that moves you quickly through the pages. In Roric we see so many timely messages for Christian leadership. Stanton does so in such a no nonsense way it is refreshing. His writing is clearly supportive of the family unit and the role each member plays. As he depicts Roric and Kristin's lovestory we see the God-honoring tradition of marriage,. We see love, flirting, mutual respect, communcation, passion and romance. Stanton is not shy about writing passion and intimaticy allowing his characters to feel desire, passion and intimacy. He does so gracefully.It is evidenced in A Warrior's Journey that Stanton is improving his craft. This book was excellent. An edge of your seat plot, descriptive setting, wonderfully developed characters while weaving a story for us which is not simple, predictable text. He builds us world separate to the one we know. We get to know their lifestyle, government, culture, their people and their zeal to protect their world. He then expands our minds as he shows us the role of good versus evil in this land. The difference in a faith founded on God's word versus one where wicked priests, child sacrifice and all sorts of sin rule.We do still have neighboring enemies but do not have as many battles to fight now as our focus moves to locating a copy of the Bible. This takes us on a journey revealing the strength of character of some of our warriors, introduces new allies and a world of new enemies.Time to start book three,