Book Review: Between Two Kingdoms by Joe Boyd
Between Two Kingdoms is an adult fantasy written by pastor, author, and film producer Joe Boyd.
Between two Kingdoms is a story about a Kingdom ruled by the Great King and his Son, the Good Prince. The only thing is that this Kingdom has been separated from its lower Kingdom. Both used to be ruled by the Great King and His Son, but Sinkrad—a former servant of the King—had rebelled against the Great King, which caused a division among the children of the King, therefore a division between the upper and lower Kingdom. Sinkrad therefore becomes the “Prince” of the lower kingdom.
Since the division, the Good Prince sends out his messengers—the children—to create relationships with the people of the lower kingdom in hopes of inviting them into the upper Kingdom with the Great King and the Good Prince. Everyone whom the Good Prince welcomes into his kingdom—if they are willing to come—are transformed into being eternally seven. They become child again and live in the care and the joy of the Great King. By the time you get to chapter three, you may very well find yourself in tears as Bobby finds his right place in the Upper Kingdom. People of the lower kingdom lived in a in a “world [that] lacked the substance, the brightness, the solidness of life up on the mountain. It was just a shadow of the Upper Kingdom” (p.17). And when just one person comes to the Good Prince, the entire Kingdom rejoices.
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