The Bride Collector
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- ISBN13: 9781599951966
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four gorgeous young women, leaving a nuptial veil at each crime scene, and he’s alternative up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose are extraordinarily gifted.
It’s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family tree and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an psychic gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person’s life when she touches the dead body.
In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise’s help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this weird young woman and starts to see in her qualities that most ’sane people’ sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls…or inside.
As the Bride Collector picks up the pace-and volume-of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a gorgeous young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector’s next target.
The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it’s too late?
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Although I normally delight in reading Ted Dekker’s novels, and I admit The Bride Collector was suspenseful, I was ultimately disappointed in the novel’s content. I would not categorize this particular Ted Dekker novel as Christian fiction. Yes, there are strong themes of like, acceptance, forgiveness, and redemption establish throughout the tale. There is also content, but, that gave me intermission.
For instance, one of the mental patients Dekker attempts to humanize is a sex addict. Several times throughout The Bride Collector the read is forced to suffer this character’s sexual innuendo. Toward the end of the tale some of the characters really laugh at his behavior and dismiss it simply as a peculiar quirk of his personality and condition.
The violence is graphic, as may be expected from a novel detailing the work of a serial killer. I felt we were agreed far too much insight, but, into the inner workings of the killer’s twisted mind. Much of the novel is spent allowing the so-called “Bride Collector” to voice his demonic thoughts.
I could go on. Overall, I establish this to be a most disappointing novel from one of my favorite authors, Ted Dekker.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I establish this to be a to some extent appealing serial-killer pulp, but be warned (potential spoiler): as a reader, one may need to suspend belief that the protagonist could ever be a real FBI agent and would get romantically involved with a uncomplaining at a mental health facility. That said, the real delight in this catch-me-if-you-can thriller is the serial killer, whose boldness of action is accurately brought to life on the pages. A excellent-enough read for me – and excellent enough for me to want to check out more of the leader’s work.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Ted Dekker’s, “The Bride Collector,” centers upon a serial murderer who sedates and kidnaps gorgeous women and then proceeds to murder them and place their bodies in a peculiar “nuptial” arrangement lacking leaving any forensic clues as to his identity. The murders take place in areas in and around Denver. Early on we learn the killer’s identity and his goal is to kill seven women with the final murder to be the “most gorgeous” from the inner voices that presume to motivate him.
FBI super sleuth Brad Raines, whom the killer refers to as Rain Man, springs into action to find this homicidal maniac and decides that to catch this psychotic killer he must enlist the help of brilliant psychotic inmates of an upscale residential facility. Raines has suffered the loss of his beloved Ruby who committed suicide because she did not judge herself to be gorgeous.
Raines becomes emotionally involved with one of the patients who suffers from severe agoraphobia presumably arising as a result of having survived several traumatic events.
The killer who is driven to find perfect brides for God escalates his rampage from murdering gorgeous women to shooting copious people along the way.
The book is wordy, overlong and at times downright silly. It makes law enforcement look like buffoonery.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I`want to know before I buy a book, if the message is all about religon. This book was ridiculous. After reading all the editorial reviews,I wondered if any of the reviewers really read it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Are serial killers insane? Not by officially authorized standards. “The incidence of psychosis among murderers is no greater than the incidence of psychosis in the total population,” states child psychiatrist Donald Lunde. According to Dr. Donald Lunde, the mentally ill are really less likely to murder than the all-purpose population. Persons who argue that anti-social personality disorder, a common characteristic among killers, is a form of mental illness, will also concede that these people are not hospitalized for their condition, and are able to function in the world.
Of all known serial killers, less than 1% have been diagnosed with any type of schizophrenic disorder. Writers of both fiction and non-fiction need to exercise accountability to the reader. I have noted that several thriller/mystery writers use schizophrenia as a main diagnosis for serial killers in all-purpose. This is absolutely untrue, and when leader uses this premise, you know the leader has not done his homework.
If you are not familiar with the disease, you might judge the written word–albeit, it is ficti– to the determent of persons who are stricken with bipolar disorders. This particular lack of reliable writing only serves to widen the gap between society and persons who suffer from the physical brain disorder, schizophrenia. A physical disorder which causes a intermission of mental stability. Mental illness is the least understood and most grossly treated theme on the planet.
Schizophrenia does not cause people to go out and kill. This disease is not an inherent breeding ground for serial killers in the building. Mr. Dekker and every leader like him are guilty of yucky negligence and may cause untold harm to many people who suffer from this and additional bipolar disorders by giving the impression they slaughter people at will. If you are going to write about serial killers, then study the theme and get it right.
Aside from all that, a meandering slog through a tiresome litany of humdrum conversations by mundane, under-fleshed characters, make this book dull in the extreme. There is nothing realistic about a psychotic woman in an institution for so-called mentally incompetent genius apt the like object of an intelligent FBI officer. The additional characters described by Mister Dekker from the asylum are just as unbelievable with their abilities to equate and assimilate unbelievably inconsequential evidence. If an entire team of trained FBI agents cannot find the killer, how can a pair of inmates in a place for mental disturbances do so? I’m sorry, but no matter how I stretch my suspension of disbelief, it doesn’t take me there.
Then there is the officer who is shot, point blank, in the chest and doesn’t nosebleed out. He doesn’t lose a lung, or an artery, and in fact is able to free himself and takes off down a country road. I don’t reflect so. Mr. Dekker could have told a believable tale in about half the number of pages and left out some of the sillier stuff. Then, it might have been a readable book. I only finished it because I couldn’t review it if I didn’t…and I admit I garnered a few moments of amusement from the read.
By introducing the alleged psychotic killer and his entire thought process in the beginning of the book, the reader is told every item as it unfolds, preventing anything like a mystery to occur. The fact that the two main investigators on the case appear more like divine interpreters than detectives, only adds to the lack of this reader’s ability to suspend disbelief.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5