Smith: The Green Ember and The Black Star of Kingston.Smith is the founder of, a beautiful website that exists to serve parents as they foster holy imagination in their children.By Smith, S.
#Green ember picket series#
I also highly recommend the rest of The Green Ember series and associated books by S.D. ( Ember Falls will officially be released on September 13, but is available for preorder on Amazon NOW!)
#Green ember picket full#
And as Heather and Picket and the other characters in Ember Falls live out the middle of their story, they give us and our children courage to take heart too, knowing with full confidence that “it will not be so in the Mended Wood,” and that they, too, can It echoes the moment of the story that they are currently living, the one being written by the Great Storyteller. But our children need this book because it points them to Truth. It is even deeper and more complex than The Green Ember and, as the characters mature, the story does too. (There are still lots of rabbits with swords!) It is also shocking and includes some exciting surprises and plot twists. Like its predecessor, it is full of adventure and action. Smith’s writing is beautiful and succinct. Their victories–and their pains–resonate with us and are stored up in the deepest parts of our souls. Some wrestle with remorse, or with forgiveness. The consequences of those choices are very real and very hard. Others choose selfishness, betrayal, and alliance with the darkness ravaging the land. Some choose sacrifice, loyalty, and courage. They have the same kinds of choices to make as we have.
Their struggles, their fears, their hopes, their loves-they all echo the cries of our own hearts in these darkening times. In spite of the fact that the main characters are rabbits, Ember Falls is truly a story about what it means to be human. It is timeless, but it is also very much a book for our times. The Green Ember has been called “a new story with an old soul,” and this newest installment is that as well. Just like The Green Ember before it, Ember Falls is a story that nourishes the moral imagination and fills the soul with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. It looks, in fact, very much like where we seem to be in our own story, which is why I think that Ember Falls is one of the most important books I have read this year. They must decide if they will fight on despite the seeming hopelessness of their situation, or if they will surrender to the enclosing darkness. They face hardship and wrestle with betrayal. They have seen many victories, but the ultimate victory-the Mended Wood–still eludes them. Our hero and heroine, siblings Picket and Heather Longtreader, are in the middle of their story. And that is what I was thinking when I first read Ember Falls, the second book in The Green Ember series by S.D. The middle of the story is hard-in real life and in fiction. This world, these headlines, this darkness surrounding us-it is not the end. I hope in Christ and trust that, because of His life, death, and resurrection, evil will be defeated and true justice and mercy will ultimately prevail. As a Christian, I have a very real faith that all will be restored and set right. When I get lost in those moments of hopelessness and fear, it is usually because I have briefly forgotten an important truth: we are living in the middle of the story. Sometimes, especially when I think about my children and the world they are inheriting, I can tend to despair and lose hope. Turn on the news for even just a few seconds and it is hard to deny that we are living in perilous times. It means to bear the fatal flames of the enemy, to bear up under the scorching heat of these hateful days.” “To bear the flame means more than only holding on to the fire kindled in the Green Ember’s rising.
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