• The Skin Map

    The Skin Map By Stephen Lawhead Published by Thomas Nelson The Skin Map is the first book I have read by Stephen Lawhead.  I am a fan of author Ted Dekker and I expected The Skin Map to be similar to books by Dekker or Randy Alcorn, but I was disappointed. The story consists of a young man, Kit Livingstone, being visited unexpectedly by his great-grandfather, Cosimo Livingstone. Cosimo then engages Kit, though somewhat unwillingly, in a sort if time travel by means of what Lawhead calls “leys”.  These leys are “pathways” said to be scattered throughout the earth and allow “travelers” to physically leap between realms. The storyline, though somewhat…