Green: The Beginning and the End (Circle Series #0) Book

Ted Dekker says you can read the circle trilogy from Black to Green or from Green to White. I read it in the order of Black, Red, White, Green and honestly think it would be very hard to read it Green, Black, Red, White. Dekker really threw me for a loop in the last half of Green. He left me... a little crazed? The amount of information being thrown at me in this book was kind of overwhelming my brain. At the end of Green, having read all 4 of the books in the Circle Trilogy, I thought, "It really IS a CIRCLE!!!?!!!?!" Don't get me wrong -- I LOVED the series, especially <3 Justin <3 , and Thomas because of his bravery and the whole idea of the Great Romance wooing, rescuing, pursuing, lavishing, and all that. The storyline was excellent and it amazes me at times like these that authors can plan so far ahead in a particular series and tie everything together so well. Dekker certainly amazed me.
Something I remember not liking about this book in particular was the amount of violence that was involved. I read Black, Red, and White near the end of 2009 and finished Green about 2 months ago, so perhaps my memory is not as sharp as it was when I had finished the first three books. Some of the book was quite disturbing (the sacrifice, some of Ba'al's rituals).
I love Dekker's work and I admire how he managed to pull together a lot of information and connect it in Green. This was a rather thrilling series.