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| Original Title: | The Bride Collector |
| ISBN: | 0340964987 (ISBN13: 9780340964989) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Brad Raines, Nikki Holden, Paradise, Quinton Gauld |
| Setting: | Denver, Colorado(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Christy Award Nominee for Suspense (2011) |
Ted Dekker
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.84 | 10424 Users | 1079 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Bride Collector |
| Author | : | Ted Dekker |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | 2010 by Hodder & Stoughton (first published April 13th 2009) |
| Categories | : | Christian. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Audiobook. Mystery. Christian Fiction. Fiction |
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Did you ever want to read a book that was part psychological thriller, part Twilight-esque love story, and part Christian literature? Then this is the book for you. I liked the first 2/3rd of the story. A psychotic killer is hunting beautiful women, leaving their bodies drained of blood, with bridal veils draped over their faces. And the FBI is called in. There's some sexy tension between the FBI agents working the case. There are also some colorful characters from a nearby mental institution who, despite their illness, have astounding gifts of perception; some of their gifts even border on the supernatural. The killer's crime was murder. The author's crime was laziness. The killer is psychotic, so of course his killing ritual has some wacky rationale like he is the messenger of God. Because he's crazy, he can predict every action that anyone ever will take, so he is always about 67 steps ahead of the FBI agents. He also can find out where random people live and work and who they love. The FBI agent, Brad, loves his girlfriend who killed herself and will never love another. No, wait, he has a second chance for love with his sexy partner. Oh no, she died, how will he ever love again? Well, how about this mental patient? This is the woman he can love for all eternity. And also, he has lots of money and is insanely handsome. The mental patient, whose name is Paradise (the name is kind of like being clubbed in the head with The Hammer of Metaphor) and is basically the most perfect human on the planet. She is deeply insightful and witty, but damaged. She has one flaw: a mental illness that's completely understandable since she saw her father kill other members of her family while she hid in a closet. And she thinks she's ugly because she wears dorky clothes and foregoes makeup. (Don't worry, she gets a makeover. No one in this book gets to be ugly!) She and Brad fall in love after knowing each other for about 5 seconds. The mental patients all save the day because Society needs to treat them better. There was also some religious pontificating about how God loves us all. As the point of view switches between characters, we hear them cover the exact. same. theology. Over and over and over. It's a lovely concept, but it really did start to grate after a while. The worst part is that this book really did show promise. It wouldn't have won any awards for writing, but it built sufficient tension and the fact that Dekker doesn't mind ratcheting up the body count is only more terrifying. Then there is near-instantaneous True Love and We Are All God's Favorite and the Perfect Girl who is so perfect SHE CURES HER OWN MENTAL ILLNESS. IN A DAY. That said, a lot of people liked this book. If you were intrigued by the first sentence, then by all means, scoop this book up for your next vacation. At worst, you'll get about 250 pages of entertainment out of it.Rating Appertaining To Books The Bride Collector
Ratings: 3.84 From 10424 Users | 1079 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books The Bride Collector
Not for the faint of heart this is a dark, deeply disturbing tour-de-force of good versus evil, told in bone chillng, graphic detail. Make no mistake he will take you there and hold you hard and long into the night. My hat is off, Mr. DeKker. Bring it on!Well, seeing as how I haven't read a Ted Dekker novel in quite some time, I figured I'd pick one up and see if he's improved over the last seven years. Short Answer: Not at all. As near as I can tell, THREE remains the only one of his novels that's really any good. Part of the reason why this is so is likely because he puts out so many different books each year rather than spend time on desperately needed rewrites. THE BRIDE COLLECTOR is pretty good for a second draft but makes for a poor final
Three words: piece of crap! Literally so unbelievable in relationships, in coincidences, in everything. Like the plot itself sounds fantastic, then you start reading and the author is such a bore and such a cliche writer. It doesn't even deserve one star it was so bad.
There is a seriel killer out there, he targets beautiful young women, women who don't have any flaws. He kills in the name of God, well he thinks that he is God. He drains the bodies of these women and hangs them up in sheds and old farm houses, he applies makeup to them. I could only make it half way through this book. I know what's going to happen and I can't stand that...he's going to abduct and try to kill one of the main characters, Nikki. Plus there is some sort of backstory with this girl
Just about every Ted Dekker book I've read, I enjoyed and recommended. This one was my first disappointment. It pains me to be so critical of the author I've always had high praise for, but this book was so cringe-worthy I didn't even make it through the first half. The characters were all typecast- particularly the characters in the looney bin. There was nothing original about the Mental Institute and the residents except that it was for intelligent people, which only made it more bizarre. Two
This was my first Ted Dekker novel and I must say that I enjoyed it. His secondary characters are very well fleshed out and personable. The plot was a bit cliché and I guessed the ending about 2/3 of the way through but this does not detract from the novel too much. I also did not like being told the identity of the killer very early in the story. Quinton Gauld was an excellent antagonist and his distorted view on reality and religion was a bit fascinating. The scariest part may have been that
I won't go into the plot of the book, which was interesting enough. It was the relationships between the characters that made the book so blah to me. At the beginning of the book, there are hints that the main character has feelings for a co-worker. Later, another character is introduced who he develops feelings for. Instead of making the main character have to confront his conflicted feelings, the first love interest is unceremoniously killed off to make way for the second, and while the main
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