{"id":40432,"date":"2008-10-25T16:50:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2013-03-22T12:34:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:34:31","slug":"cynderes-midnight-reviews-and-letters-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2008\/10\/cynderes-midnight-reviews-and-letters-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyndere’s Midnight: Reviews and Letters, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I\u2019m still waiting to hear young Ezra Ribera\u2019s response to Cyndere\u2019s Midnight<\/em>. I may be waiting for a while.<\/p>\n

But I have been hearing from others.<\/p>\n

My thanks to the reviewers who are sharing their experiences of Cyndere\u2019s Midnight.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This week, Faithful Reader<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

[It\u2019s] a compelling, otherworldly fantasy novel full of bizarre creatures and redemption. \u2026 It requires intense, concentrated reading to take in the plot line, keep track of the characters, and imagine the colorful flora and fauna of Overstreet\u2019s fantasy world of the Four Kingdoms of the Expanse. However, it\u2019s well worth the effort required.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow. Thanks so much! I write every day under a cloud of worry that folks who bother with the final draft won\u2019t find it worth reading. So a review like this gives me some measure of relief.<\/p>\n

And, as previously noted, The Curator<\/a><\/em>\u2018s Annie Frisbie wrote a review that encouraged me to get back to my desk and keep writing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also grateful to those who have written letters. Happy readers encourage this writer\u2019s heart\u2026 especially as I\u2019m spending most of my evenings and Saturdays working on the third book, and missing out on all kinds of great gatherings, films, concerts, and books.<\/p>\n

This letter made my day:<\/p>\n

Jennifer (12) writes:<\/p>\n

Oh, my gosh!!! I absolutely love this book! I got in trouble for reading it too late at night. The first night I got it, I read the whole book. I could not get my hands off of it! I am so excited on the release of Cyndere\u2019s Midnight<\/em>! I am going to buy it as soon as it comes to my local Christian bookstore. I am hoping to buy the whole series one book at a time as it comes out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MY RESPONSE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh dear. I\u2019m becoming a terrible influence.<\/p>\n

I remember staying up too late reading The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, Watership Down<\/em>, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH<\/em>, Dune<\/em>, and The Chronicles of Prydain<\/em>. So I can relate. And it\u2019s an unexpected honor to contribute something to that subversive tradition of interfering with healthy sleep habits.<\/p>\n

Thank, Jennifer, for taking the time to write to me!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a letter from Audrey\u2026 but be warned: It contains some SPOILERS about the story\u2026<\/p>\n

Mr. Overstreet,<\/p>\n

I received a copy of Cyndere\u2019s Midnight<\/em> as a birthday gift in September, almost a year to the day that I received Auralia\u2019s Colors<\/em> for the same event. :) It took me until last weekend to finish it, because of not starting it right away (school stuff first) and then not being able to read it all at once (school stuff again). I finished more than half of it in the same weekend, though, and I just wanted to thank you.<\/p>\n

When I read Auralia\u2019s Colors<\/em>, I enjoyed it greatly and got a lot out of it. But it was still hard to see where things were going, how things tied it to an overarching Christian message other than just beauty and purpose. Cyndere\u2019s Midnight<\/em> blew me away. The glorious explorations of death and life, the impact of choice, redemption and grace, hope and loss, were so vivid and meaningful that, nearly a week later, it\u2019s something I\u2019m still thinking about. Few Christian books tackle these subjects with the finesse and ease that Cyndere\u2019s Midnight<\/em> does, few modern Christian fantasy authors trust their readers enough to make these connections without them being blatantly pointed out. This is the sort of book that I want to recommend to everyone<\/em>, because I know that it can lead to conversations about the truth of Christ and the grace of God without friends feeling like the novel itself is hollow or preachy. This is the sort of story that is<\/em> exciting, that does<\/em> draw readers in, and doesn\u2019t insult their intelligence. We need more novels that speak in parables so eloquently. Thank you for adding one to the world.<\/p>\n

In the small-group college Bible study I co-lead, we were reading Ephesians 2 and talking about how God \u201cmade us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions\u201a\u00c4\u00eeit is by grace you have been saved,\u201d and in my mind, I had that remarkably vivid image of Jordam, agonizing over the rejection of the Essence even while a drop was in his mouth, knowing that he couldn\u2019t save himself but there was something worth running for. It has made that theme, of struggle and surrender and reconciliation, more prominent in my mind in the past several days. It\u2019s something very much worth thinking about, over and over and over again. I\u2019m so excited to see where this story is going, what this will mean for the Houses altogether and what this turn of tide could mean for Cent Regus. I\u2019m wildly hoping for something massive and redeeming for these houses, and reinspired to hope for and anxiously await that day in which Heaven and Earth are remade, and we come to the complete realization of salvation and God\u2019s full plan for mankind.<\/p>\n

I also loved the stuff with the Keeper. It was particularly resonant that he terrified the Beastmen when they saw him (it?), but that in moments when he was protecting the ale boy (as a shelter from the storm), sometimes the ale boy didn\u2019t even realize he was there. How often do we need an escape from the storm, not necessarily the removal of it, and criticize God for not being \u201cevident\u201d in the situation? How often do we take our moments of relief for granted, or fail to realize what the shelter really is, when all the while He\u2019s scaring \u201cbeastmen\u201d away? It was wonderful imagery and hearty food for thought.<\/p>\n

So, thank you, for writing. I\u2019m already excited about the next book. :)<\/p>\n

Audrey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MY RESPONSE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wrote Audrey back a personal note, but the more I read her letter, the more I find myself pleased that someone is finding meaning and relevance in the story beyond what I\u2019d intended.<\/p>\n

But I also feel I should admit that much of what Audrey is drawing from this story was not in my head as I wrote it. That doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s wrong<\/em>: the story has a meaning of its own, beyond what I thought about while I wrote it. As C.S. Lewis has said, we don\u2019t create anything. We just rearrange ideas and materials that God has made. And those things continue to speak as he intended. My job is to try and avoid messing that up.<\/p>\n

Audrey\u2019s interested in the \u201coverarching Christian message.\u201d And she goes on to explain what she means. Her interpretation is interesting to me, but I certainly didn\u2019t have an \u201coverarching Christian message\u201d predetermined as I wrote\u2026 or at least, I wasn\u2019t thinking in those terms. I was thinking about the story and the characters. I was considering, at times, how my characters and their decisions did or didn\u2019t align with the central themes of the classic \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d tale. I also considered how the story did, or didn\u2019t, align with other favorite \u201cmonster stories\u201d like Blade Runner<\/em>, Alien,<\/em> The Island of Dr. Moreau<\/em>, and Frankenstein<\/em> \u2014 stories about the monsters that men have made, and the monsters that we all sometimes become.<\/p>\n

I followed the characters, imagined what they would be likely to do, and played with events and personalities and decisions the way a chemist might experiment with a chemistry set. I tried to stick with scenes and decisions that felt honest and true \u2014 representing the way those characters would behave in those situations. I figure that if I focus on crafting something that convinces me, something that feels as if it has grown naturally and reasonably from scenes that have come before, then that\u2019s good enough. The truth of the moment is all I need.<\/p>\n

Because what would it mean to designate something as \u201cChristian truth\u201d? There is nothing truly Christian that isn\u2019t<\/em> true, and there is nothing true that does not align with the teachings of Christ.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it doesn\u2019t make sense to me to say I\u2019m writing a \u201cChristian fantasy.\u201d Anybody who writes a fantasy characterized by insight and truth is, to some extent, conveying the glory of God with their work (like it or not). Anyone who tries to weave \u201can overarching Christian message\u201d will, in some way, convey some lies and corruption\u2026 because we\u2019re all messed up, we\u2019re all deceived in some ways, and our work will always bear something incomplete, something flawed. We see through a glass darkly, and what we reflect to each other bears both glimmers of glory and the imperfections of our own interpretations.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to chart any kind of ultimate \u201clesson\u201d with these stories, because the more I think about the lesson, the more I\u2019m forcing the story to go a certain way, and choking the life out of it. I want to watch it develop, one step at a time, and be surprised by how it all turns out. Otherwise, I feel like I\u2019m manipulating my readers and carrying out some kind of selfish agenda. That wouldn\u2019t be much fun, and the writing would become a chore.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just doing the best I can with my limited tools, my unremarkable intellect (I certainly don\u2019t speak many languages, like Tolkien did; nor am I a theologian or a philosopher, like Lewis and Sayers and O\u2019Connor), and my severely limited time and resources. (I\u2019m writing these stories on coffee breaks and Saturdays. Oh for a chance to write stories full-time! But alas, we don\u2019t live in a culture that supports that\u2026.)<\/p>\n

With what I\u2019ve been given, I want to write a true story\u2026 true insofar as it has a certain integrity. If a reader realizes that the truth of this story corresponds with the truth of the gospel\u2026 hallelujah. But I\u2019m certainly not going to say that the story is just for Christians, or meant it as some kind of evangelical lesson. I wanted to write a story to the best of my ability, hoping to capture fragments of the art I\u2019ve found in stories by Christians and non-Christians who were greater storytellers than me\u2026 from Cormac McCarthy to Mark Helprin to Bram Stoker to Mary Shelley to J.R.R. Tolkien to T.H. White to Richard Adams to Madeleine L\u2019Engle, and on and on.<\/p>\n

I still have a great deal to learn. If it\u2019s true and it\u2019s beautiful, I\u2019m interested in it, and in learning from it, whatever its source. That\u2019s why I love the discipline of reviewing movies and music.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s encouraging to me that the ideas I ended up including in the book are \u201cringing true\u201d to some readers, as they rang true to me when I wrote them. I hope I\u2019ve written with enough art to ensure that the stories will last a while, and be worth reading more than once. Time and readers will tell. In the meantime, I\u2019m have a grand time making stuff up.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading, and for responding.<\/p>\n

And you heard it here first: Soon, I\u2019ll have huge posters of Auralia\u2019s Colors<\/em> and Cyndere\u2019s Midnight<\/em> to give away! Bring the amazing artwork of Kristopher Orr to a wall in your home, your office, your classroom, your cubicle\u2026 wherever you\u2019d like!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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