Fun Reads Friday: The Blue Door

We all know the battle between good and evil. We’ve heard about our “guardian angels”. Yet many of us (probably most of us), walk as if this natural world is all there is. We believe there are angels and there are demons, but it seems like another world away.

In her book, “The Blue Door,” part 1 of the Threshold Series, Christa Kinde takes us into the very present, real world of the spiritual and what happens when a human is given a glimpse into it.

“You’ve been chosen, highly favored one.”   

“I like my life just fine.”

 Fourteen-year old Priscilla Pomeroy has a few good friends and lives on a secluded farm with three brothers and her extended family. Summer vacation is starting off very slow and boring, until she meets a boy named Koji. Koji is an angel. When the two realize Prissie is able to see him, a whole new world of adventure opens up. However, Prissie struggles with accepting this new world. Everything she thought she knew has changed.

She is just becoming comfortable with this newfound knowledge when she walks into her kitchen one day and her grandmother introduces her to a new exchange student sitting at their table. His name is Koji. Her grandmother explains he will be living with them for the upcoming school year. More questions plague Prissie’s mind. When she is told that God has something great in store for her, she questions her own merit.  

“The Blue Door” follows Prissie, Koji, Milo, Harken and others on an adventure that is literally out of this world. Kinde weaves light-hearted banter, the love and security of family, and biblical insight into a highly enjoyable story that paints a clear picture of the unseen reality around us.

This middle-grade book is the first book in a series of four. While the recommended reading ages are 11-14, I would say more advanced readers as young as 8 or 9 would enjoy it. At times it gets a little darker as we see conversations between the demons, and the undertone of the spiritual battle that is happening in town around Prissie, but this also provides parents the opportunity for great conversation.