Title: Between Two Worlds
Author: Cheyenne van Langevelde
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Christian | Fiction | Historical/Biblical | Romance
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Blurb: Enid hates the Romans who enslaved her. Broken-hearted over the life she lost in Britain, she vows to bury her name and her past where the Redcrests can never reach it. As years of servitude pass, bitter resignation replaces her longing to return home.
Then an unlikely friendship with a fellow outcast raises Enid out of her isolation, bringing both hope for the future and questions about the confusing God of the Christiani. Yet memories of her childhood haunt her, urging her to cling to her old identity, while the barriers of Roman society remain in the way of her deepest dreams. The peace she thought she made with the past is crumbling.
But time is running out for Enid and those she loves. Danger threatens the household she serves as persecution stalks her few friends. She must decide if risking it all for the one she loves is worth giving up the world she knows.
Even if it is a choice between life and death.
My Thoughts
This is one of those books I could go on and on about - from the simplistic but vivid prose, to the realistic and vibrant setting, to the fast pacing, to the immersive emotions - but what I love the most is how raw, relatable, and bold it is.
Between Two Worlds is, at its heart, a faith journey. A conversion story. It's the tale Enid, our broken pagan heroine, searching for peace and finding it in Christ. More than that, Cheyenne heads straight for the hard questions - Why do bad things happen to good people? Why would a loving God let His people die? How can Christians be so peaceful in the face of great trials? - and answers them biblically and lovingly. The gentle but poignant way she wove the themes in with Enid's character arc and wrote her transformation over barely 300 pages is simply admirable!
A Word from the Author
Between Two Worlds is one of those stories that was based off a weird and vivid dream I had. (Thanks to my friend who said it'd make a good story). Naturally, it became more than that. This book broke and reshaped me both as a writer and as a person and especially Christian. The struggles the characters face were based off myself, and like them, I've had to learn to trust in the One who tells our stories and whose plans for our futures are always better than we can imagine.
Meet the Author
Cheyenne van Langevelde is a young author and musician whose greatest passion is weaving tales through story and song. When not struggling to attempt the most metaphorical prose, she enjoys composing and recording soundtrack pieces for books, practicing calligraphy and Irish dance, and studying the Welsh language. She occasionally emerges into the real world to restock her chocolate supply, of which she hoards like a dragon would his gold.
Do you tackle hard questions in your novels? Do you find inspiration from yourself and your own experiences/struggles? How do you utilize that to make your themes more relatable and real?
Yours in spirit and script,
Grace
Romans 1:16
Augh this looks SO good!!! I can't wait to read it!!! :D I definitely try to tackle hard questions in my novels... though it always ends up being unintentional; I don't purposefully set out to include that, it just happens thanks to the characters. Why God allows bad things to happen to good people is one of the hardest out there, and that's something one of my poor characters is wondering... *hugs the character extremely tight* So I guess that'll be an unintentional theme (or message/question/not sure what to call it)!
And yessss I absolutely find inspiration from my own experiences and struggles! It would be impossible for me to (somewhat successfully) write a character whose struggles I can't identify…