Oh Brenda, oh Brenda at WV Stitcher, you reminded me not to judge a book by its cover. I would have bypassed this book because the cover's too freakin' scary!! But you were so kind to offer it to me and since it traveled over 3,000 miles to get to me and three being one of my favorite numbers, well, I took a deep breath and avoided looking at the cover as much as possible.Wow, talk about edge of your seat thrilling! I was hooked from the beginning. My heart rate finally went down during the initial background scenes but that didn't last! Holy Moly, things escalated and you were put into a wring of twists. Just when you think you have a guess on what's going on, you're thrown a curve ball ...not once, twice, but umph times. My heart is racing right now at trying to describe it. Anyway, I so enjoyed this psychological thriller. Mr. Dekker is the bomb!!When I read the part in the beginning about having to solve a riddle in three minutes or the car (that you were in) would blow up, a couple of things crossed my mind. First, I said to myself, "Hey, wasn't that a movie?". Second, had such a thing happen to me, I would have died! End of the book! Good thing, Kevin was sharper under pressure and the book took on a run.This was not a ghostly-chop the bodies to pieces kind of horror that I thought it would be. Can you blame me? Look at the man in the cover ...glassy evil eyes ...the hairs on the back of my neck took a military standing attention. Instead, it delved into the nature of good vs evil that I haven't come across yet in novels. Very interesting take on the angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other shoulder ...not forgetting the person in the middle.By the way, Mr. Dekker addressed my movie question on the Author's Note section. There was a movie called Adaptation starring Nicolas Cage that seemed to have similar premise but it turned out that it was really nothing like his book except for one detail. I liked the lesson that he pointed out that he learned from that experience of watching a movie that he initially thought might have been ripped from him. He said, "Truly there are no completely new ideas, but rather old ideas made completely fresh ... What's magical about ideas is how they are brought to life, not their inception.".This will not be the last book that I will read of Mr. Dekker's works. I understand there are others more exciting ones. I better prepare because this was truly gripping!Thank you Brenda for the book!! You are wonderful!!!**Find this review and more at Jinky is Reading
ok to start I had high high hoping going into this and honestly first CD (more on that later) I couldn't stop listening alas here I am.As going to review I currently have a yearly dose of conjunctivitis that I'm often plagued with but my love of reading isn't effected because (as said about CD) I have this book on audio but four disc's in and I'm sorry but I truly can't take another second.The guy reading this book has the worse reading voice I've EVER heard, he's reading it in a very low droopy voice that just drags on and on at the same octave throughout (I hope I don't come across this guy in other audio books I go on to).Anyhoo I may have been able to over-look the voice if the story had kept my attension like it did at the start but by disc four I find myself scratching my head thinking "what the f@%$ is going on here" not only is the plot all over the place the audio is also messed up so the main plot line was revealed to me in disc three and again in disc four (or was this supposed to happen?) I dunno i'm confused now but I felt like the book was being read at random chapters by a old guy who's had so much to drink he was about passing outThe readerNot for me so sorry.
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Don't read this review if you don't want the plot twist revealed.I can't believe I just spent 4 hours reading this book. 4 hours of my life that I can't get back. It's 352 pages that should have ended at about 175. If there is anything that I hate it's a "let's fill this in with something" "Three's Company" (no pun) miscommunication conjecture-laden spun up on crank plot. What I hate more is a "Three's Company" miscommunication conjecture-laden spun up on crank plot trying to inject sinister ove
—S. Harrell
Sorry to disagree, but this book is nothing but good marketing. An interesting plot is all it has to recommend it. Evil is absolutely stereotyped and unreal, Good is a pampering girlfriend, and Neutral Man is above both. That as to philosophy. As to plot, the author either knows nothing about MPD, or purposefully stretches reality beyond anyone's capacity of disbelief. No point I can see to this book but $$. It was a waste of my time.
—Jessica
I'm struggling writing this book review. I'm struggling with my decision to not finish the book. I wanted so badly to love this book - to even LIKE it, but it failed me. Or I failed it. I'm not sure. The book starts out with a brief and shallow discussion on the nature of evil in mankind. I think this was meant to be a foreshadowing device, but there was nothing profound in the discussion so nothing resonated or stuck with me. Right away we're thrown into some action by immediately being introduced to the bad guy and his twisted little game. The author won points for not wasting time with that. My problem is with all the things the author did waste time with. Analyzing and detailing every.little.thought, motivation and response of each character. The language used in the book... I appreciate the author's attempt to avoid over using profanity, disturbing imagery or sex, but there were a few cases where the absence of it was completely out of character. And speaking of characters, the main character is a seminary student - and he doesn't once pray to God. It was like ... I don't know. The character occupation note was to give him some kind of innocence or good, but the author didn't back it up. I did skip to the end and read the last two chapters just to see how the book played out. I was quite disappointed. I've seen this plot before, it's a movie called Fight Club - watch it and save yourself some time by not picking up this book.
—Sherry
