The book Kingdom’s Dawn, is inspiring, and captivates the reader's attention with a medieval theme and a wonderful plot. The plot leaves you on the edge of a cliff with and mysterious ending.Kingdom’s Dawn, by Chuck Black, is a fictional novel that talks about a young boy named Leinad and his journey to find his true calling. This book has many biblical themes, and it’s plot is very engaging to the point to where you may not be able to put it down.
Leinad is a young man in a small farming town. He lives a normal day to day life: Or does he? Leinad wonders why he is being trained hours upon hours in sword fighting and preparing for war. Whereas all of his friends are just farmers, they don’t train at all. Leinad’s father, Peyton, has the biggest…show more content… Leinad comes to find out their kingdom serves a king who lives beyond to The Great Sea. Tess and Leinad are preparing to fight the King’s nemesis, Lucius, also referred to as the Dark Knight. Lucius and his men surprise attack Peyton and Tess. This results in Peyton’s death and Leniad’s flee home with Tess.
Leinad travels and fights for the king, inspired by his rage of his father's death. Leniad tries to warn the village of Mankin of the darkness and evil coming, but the people do not listen. Leinad is taken prisoner on two occasions, and he is left for dead. The King turns up both times as a stranger and saves Leinad’s life. Leinad has incredible faith in the King, and he perseveres to accomplish the duty of the King by freeing the rest of the enslaved people.
I enjoyed this book because of it’s medieval theme and how this helped the reader to connect to the plot and story of the young knight and the King. The culture described in this book is very different from now, but similar to the past in the centuries of Knights. Black uses the setting in a crucial way to clarify the plot by showing the reader how quickly the peaceful farm town turns into a
