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A review by teodora_paslaru
The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
3.0
I liked this book. It was not extraordinary, but it was likeable.
The biggest problem of it was that I found most of the characters boring. I disliked the two detectives who seemed a little bit superficial, to concerned with appearances, with their own look, and I disliked the killer who had noting interesting. I tend to like books with good villains. I want to be fascinated by the bad guy. I always pry for him to lose, while reading, but I like to be fascinated by him. And I did not found this killer fascinating. He was described as highly intelligent, but it seemed a bit stupid to me. And the all the FBI agents were even stupider than him. If this would be the truth in the real world, then I should fear for myself.
I also thought that this book was a little bit to slow in the beginning and that the author spend too much time describing how people looked, what they were, how their homes looked like, what kind of nail polish did they prefer, and so on.
What saved this book? Well, Paradise did. I found her to be an extraordinary character, the only one that made this book worth reading. And I think that I partially identified myself with her. Of course, I don't have her problems, because my father never tried to kill me and no man ever tried to rape me, so, I am saner from a public point of view. I don't have to face as many demons as she did.
I also liked that the author tried to make us see behind the stereotypes perceived by the society. Beauty does not rest on the way someone uses makeup or dresses herself or himself. Beauty is something that goes beyond it. Makeup is just a mask we are using to present to the world the image that they want to see of us, but the truly beautiful people are not afraid to show themselves for what they truly are. And there is the problem of mentally ill people. They are not less like us as someone who suffers for cancer is not less like us. And their illness can be as painful, if not even more painful that physical diseases.
This being said, I don't say that someone should read this book, neither that someone should not read it. Maybe I was just expecting something else and this made be a little bit disappointed. So... read it at your own risk.
The biggest problem of it was that I found most of the characters boring. I disliked the two detectives who seemed a little bit superficial, to concerned with appearances, with their own look, and I disliked the killer who had noting interesting. I tend to like books with good villains. I want to be fascinated by the bad guy. I always pry for him to lose, while reading, but I like to be fascinated by him. And I did not found this killer fascinating. He was described as highly intelligent, but it seemed a bit stupid to me. And the all the FBI agents were even stupider than him. If this would be the truth in the real world, then I should fear for myself.
I also thought that this book was a little bit to slow in the beginning and that the author spend too much time describing how people looked, what they were, how their homes looked like, what kind of nail polish did they prefer, and so on.
What saved this book? Well, Paradise did. I found her to be an extraordinary character, the only one that made this book worth reading. And I think that I partially identified myself with her. Of course, I don't have her problems, because my father never tried to kill me and no man ever tried to rape me, so, I am saner from a public point of view. I don't have to face as many demons as she did.
I also liked that the author tried to make us see behind the stereotypes perceived by the society. Beauty does not rest on the way someone uses makeup or dresses herself or himself. Beauty is something that goes beyond it. Makeup is just a mask we are using to present to the world the image that they want to see of us, but the truly beautiful people are not afraid to show themselves for what they truly are. And there is the problem of mentally ill people. They are not less like us as someone who suffers for cancer is not less like us. And their illness can be as painful, if not even more painful that physical diseases.
This being said, I don't say that someone should read this book, neither that someone should not read it. Maybe I was just expecting something else and this made be a little bit disappointed. So... read it at your own risk.