Paradoxon: Invitation to the Dying Love

Paradoxon: Letters of the Dying Love

“Love is your only guarantee, yet from it we most often flee, for it never comes as expected and rarely as wished for” (Invitation to the Dying Love, p. 401).

I rarely encounter books as engaging, profound, and multifaceted as the Paradoxon stories. The five main characters are equally relatable with a unique past and wide range of depth. Readers are drawn into their mysterious quest where the stakes are high and the outcome is constantly in question.

Rae, Traice, Karyn, David, and Michelle meet for the first time as a result of an unexpected invitation they’ve received to travel as a group to the house of the elusive “Steward.” Each invitation holds the promise of an answer to the individual’s personal question. But how could the Steward even be aware of their private inquiries, let alone hold the answers to them? The group bands together to make the harrowing journey and form an unpredictable and tenuous bond that only the discovery of true love will preserve.

The Paradoxon books are an especially delightful adventure that reveals the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ through the parable of the “Paradox” and his love for the people of Onze. It reaches through selfish ambition and self-centered priorities to expose the truth that triumphant love requires one first to experience death. Through their challenges, mistakes, miscommunications, and close calls, the unlikely friends learn what unity can look like and that there is a unique kind of dying that ends in life.

These books were the best fictional reading experience I’ve ever had, and I’m greatly anticipating the opportunity to read through them again.