A review by micksland
The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker

5.0

I love Ted Dekker's books. I usually don't love his stand-alone novels as much as the books in his Books of History Chronicles, but this is one of the best stand-alones he has written in a while. He fixed several things that I didn't like about BoneMan's Daughters. Brad Raines and Quinton Gauld are no more interesting than Dekker's usual heroes and villains (not that they aren't interesting, just that they aren't standouts), but Paradise is amazing. Most of Dekker's bad guys are psychotic, but it's a new experience to read about a psychotic character who doesn't go around murdering people. Also, one of the main characters gets killed halfway through the book, and Dekker usually doesn't bring himself to kill off the good guys. So overall, it was not as good as his Books of History Chronicles, but one of the better stand-alone books that he has written in the past few years. Possibly the best one since House.