{"id":832,"date":"2020-07-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-28T01:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:52:15","slug":"book-review-and-writing-lessons-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/book-review-and-writing-lessons-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review and Writing Lessons: The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Book2BReview2Band2BWriting2BLessons2BThe2BDoor2BWithin2Bby2BWayne2BThomas2BBatson.png?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1600\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">Aidan Thomas is miserable. And it&#8217;s much more than the strange nightmares he&#8217;s been having. Just when life seemed to be coming together for Aidan, his parents suddenly move the family across the country to take care of his wheelchair-bound grandfather. When strange events begin to occur, Aidan is drawn into his grandfather&#8217;s basement where he discovers three ancient scrolls and an invitation to another world.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">No longer confined to the realm of his own imagination, Aidan embarks on an adventure where he joins them in the struggle between good and evil. With the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance, Aidan faces Paragory, the eternal enemy. Will Aidan be willing to risk everything and trust the unseen hand of the one true king?\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">The answer comes from The Door Within.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><b>Series:<\/b> The Door Within (Book 1)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><b>Genre:<\/b> Middle Grade Fantasy<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><b>Publisher:<\/b>\u00a0Thomas Nelson Inc; First Edition Third Printing edition (August 9, 2005)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><b>Page Count:<\/b>\u00a0316 pages<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">I\u2019ve heard of this book for years but never got to it until recently. One of my good friends prompted me to get it while at Realm Makers and I even got the book signed by the author, but as much as I wanted to like it the story just didn\u2019t do it for me.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><!-- more -->The Plot<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">It\u2019s a pretty typical fantasy plot with a modern twist. I\u2019d pitch it as The Chronicles of Narnia meets <i>The Wizard of Oz<\/i>. It has very heavy Christian allegorical themes that have distinctive similarities to Narnia and then there are people there that resemble those in the real world like <i>The Wizard of Oz<\/i> or <i>Ni No Kuni<\/i>. The backstory plot read by Aiden in scrolls is basically the story of Christ and Lucifer and one of the main subplots is Aiden leading his dad\u2019s parallel universe twin to Christ. Narnia had more subtly and finesse than this book in my opinion. And though Narnia was obviously omniscient, this book seemed third person limited until all of a sudden there was head-hopping.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">I know this book is targeted to Middle Graders but I\u2019ve read books like Percy Jackson and the Olympians as a teen and an adult and the books still have a universal appeal. Some of the kiddy slapstick things that happened to Aiden made me roll my eyes. Even as a kid those weren\u2019t funny to me. Maybe I would like this style of storytelling at that age but now it feels too old hat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Characters<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">None of the characters really latched onto me. The MC Aiden is fine I guess. He has some cute quirky aspects of him like how he wanted to catch bugs from the other world and bring them home but he felt like a character I\u2019ve read a million times. I did really empathize with him about the pain of moving and making new friends and the fascination with a fantasy world but that was the extent of it.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">The side characters were alright I guess. Gwenne was kinda sweet. It was obvious the twelve knights represented the twelve disciples though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">I really don\u2019t like anagrams of prevalent names. It\u2019s basically a spoiler in a name and two characters were named Rucifel and Ascriot. Pretty obvious that the latter guy was going to betray everyone and the former was the head of the evil dude\u2019s armies and allying with him is a bad idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Setting<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">The<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0world was pretty creative. There were some fun creatures like mortiwraiths, blackthornes, lantern spiders, and moonrascals that were fun. The glimpses being like twins from another world reminded me of Ni No Kuni and that\u2019s an interesting concept. Knights riding on unicorns and dragons are pretty cool too.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">The fact that their eyes glinted different colors depending on their loyalties was cool, except that Ascriot somehow managed to bypass that rule with no explanation.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Epic Things<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">Most of the epic things I listed above.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Theme<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">There were themes of courage that were nice but I wasn\u2019t that crazy about the seemingly anti-science sentiment on page 96.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Content Cautions<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">There is some violence but that\u2019s the only concern. Some people are stabbed or shot with arrows with some blood mentioned and some people die of poisoned arrows. Any more intense violence is off-screen. There\u2019s a surprising death count of named characters but again most of them die off-screen. Also, a unicorn dies in this thing called \u201cthe stilling\u201d and it gave me flashbacks of Artax from the Never Ending Story.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What We Can Take Away For Our Writing<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">1.)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0Allegories<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0&#8211;<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">The Door Within has a strong allegory about the death and resurrection of Christ and Lucifer\u2019s fall from grace. This is very obviously catered for a Christian audience because of the strength of this allegory.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><b>How this can be applied to writing:<\/b>\u00a0Allegories can have powerful storytelling. There are more obvious ones like in <i>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/i>, and more subtle ones like <i>the Fellowship of the Ring<\/i>. The more obviousness of the allegory is really dependent on your audience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">2.)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">Anagram Names &#8211;<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">\u00a0As I mentioned before there are two obvious anagram names. Ascriot = Iscariot as in Judas Iscariot. Rucifel aka Lucifer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><b>How this can be applied to writing:<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"> If you\u2019re going to do an anagram name and you want the character to be a traitor or something probably should make it less obvious. Personally, I think anagram names should be confined to comedy or satire.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">Overall, I could see my younger self liking it but at this age, it wasn\u2019t for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Axim7BspuEE\/XsHsab4c6ZI\/AAAAAAAAQEg\/bp73upUu_gEse0thV_UVtBoPfv5oyzLJgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/ThreeInukshukRating.png?resize=640%2C228&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"228\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"501\" data-original-width=\"1396\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-b2P2mdHnHXY\/XrnodfQ8atI\/AAAAAAAAQDw\/Rp3fFV04ZU4iFmTIQ5jmZbOhKvnUxCORgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s200\/wayne%252Bthomas%252Bbatson%252B2.jpg?resize=160%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"288\" data-original-width=\"231\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><b>Wayne Thomas Batson<\/b> is the Bestselling author of five adventure novels including the fantasy epic Door Within Trilogy and the pirate duo Isle of Swords and Isle of Fire. A middle school Reading and English teacher for 18 years, Batson loves to challenge\u2014and be challenged by\u2014his students. So, when he began writing stories to supplement the school district\u2019s curriculum, it was his students who taught their teacher a lesson. Batson\u2019s students were so taken by one of the stories that, over a thirteen-year span, they pushed him to make it into a full-length novel.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'georgia' , 'times new roman' , serif;\">That story became The Door Within. Since then, Batson\u2019s students continue to be his frontline editors. Says Batson, \u201cTwo things you can count on from middle school students: Intelligence and Honesty. Kids are so much more perceptive than a lot of us \u2018Big Folk\u2019 give them credit for. And when something\u2019s not write in the story, they\u2019ll tell you about in very clear terms.\u201d Batson is teaming up with author and friend Christopher Hopper for a new book series, The Berinfell Prophecies. The first book, Curse of the Spider King, hit bookstores in October 2009. It promises to turn the traditional \u201cportal fantasy\u201d on its head, posing the question: What would happen if the fantasy came to us? Batson believes his books appeal to so many kids and adults because, at a deep level, we all long to do something that matters, and we all dream of another world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Aidan Thomas is miserable. And it&#8217;s much more than the strange nightmares he&#8217;s been having. Just when life seemed to be coming together for Aidan, his parents suddenly move the family across the country to take care of his wheelchair-bound grandfather. 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