"The Seventh Door" book review

I am quite excited about telling ya'll about these books because I have been reading them for almost 10 years - wow, okay I just felt REALLY old!

My sister Emily found these books through the CBD catalog; ordered them and almost instantly they became a favorite.  

The first series by Bryan Davis is called "Dragons in our Midst".  The names in order are: book (1) Raising Dragons; book (2) The Candlestone; book (3) Circles of Seven; and book (4) Tears of a Dragon.
My favorite out of DIOM series: The Candelstone. 

After these books there is another series, "Oracles of Fire". The order they go in this: book (1) Eye of the Oracle; book (2) Enoch's Ghost; book (3) Last of the Nephilim; and book (4) The Bones of Makaidos.
My favorite out of OOF series: the first and last books (Eye of the Oracle and The Bones of Makaidos).

Now the last series is called "The Children of the Bard".  These books, in order, are: book (1) Song of the Ovulum; book (2) From the Mouth of Elijah; book (3) The Seventh Door; and book (4) Omega Dragon - which hasn't come out yet.
My favorite out of COTB series: not sure yet; I've gotta read the last one! :p

Here are pictures of all the books except Omega Dragon. 

Children of the Bard

And coming soon is the last installment to the series....

Omega Dragon.

So, there you have it.

Some of the best book series I've read in a long time - and I am NOT a book-series-type-of-a-gal.  I like to read one book and be done with it.  That is, unless it's a really good book and I need to know what happens next. :p  And these books have been just that.  Because I have been reading them since I was about 15 (yikes! I'm OLD!) I've in a sense grown up with the characters.  You avid readers know what that is like. Growing up with the characters and then the book ending can be quite upsetting.
At the end of "The Bones of Makadios" I cried; literately cried.  I knew that everything was "over" (what I didn't know at the time was that Bryan Davis was working on continuing the story) and that my "friends" where happy and at peace. After all we had been though; all the battles, wars, deaths, hurts, and just pain, I knew that they were at peace.  And that made me cry.  

It's the same with Little House on the Prairie and The Chronicles of Narnia.  I cried at the end of each series. Especially The Horse and His Boy in the Narnia books.  Man did I cry!   

So, with the last book (The Seventh Door), before it even came out Bryan Davis had a contest and whomever won he would send a copy to proof-read....and my sister and I won!!  He sent us the book; two weeks to read it; write out our review, and email it to him.  This was SO exciting because everything was TOP SECRET.  We couldn't say anything to anyone because the book had not been released yet.  After we sent in our review - it was good, I must say - we waited.  Waited because if Mr. Davis liked our review, then he would chose ours for the book, like actually be in a book that's going to be sold in stores! :-)

And guess what??  HE PICKED OUR REVIEW!!  Yep, that's right!  I know that it may sound silly to be this excited about something so very small, but I am because stuff like this doesn't really ever happen. 

This was the copy we were sent to read.

My sister was sweet and bought me a copy for my birthday
and asked Mr. Davis to sign it for me. :-)

That's it!  Right there, and it reads:
"Bryan Davis has captured yet again the hearts of his readers with
The Seventh Door! This thrilling adventure is filled with love, forgiveness,
and a picture of the Ultimate Sacrifice."

I leave ya'll with this!  I must be off.
Blessings,
Sarah