- What I’m listening to:
- Ted Dekker‘s The Bride Collector
- When I started:
- Monday Morning
- How Much I’ve Listened:
- 10 of the 14 hours
- What I’m liking:
- Murder / Thriller with a super-duper creepy bad guy. I love super-creepy.
- What I’m not liking:
- Where to start? I should say that I’m going to finish – I want to know how this book wraps up. But the level of suspension of belief required to follow is extraordinary. A bad guy who can kill a cop, steal the police car, and not even be chased. FBI agents who can just take murder victims to insane asylums to have agoraphobic Haley Joel Osments see if they can glean any clues. A super creepy serial killer going about, fulfilling a mission, leaving clue all over the place, killing beautiful white women — and, apparently, no media following. Law enforcement agents being killed and “ho hum” attitudes from the authorities. Gah. Then there is the whole “Did I fall in love with so-and-so and did so-and-so fall in love with me” which is constant through this book. Listen, I’m a fan of opera, I love musical theatre – I get that people can go from “oh, hi” to “the only way I can be happy is to be with you for ever and ever and ever, even if we shouldn’t be together,” in 5.9 seconds — but, in a book? When I need to not think about any of the main plot points, and I’m constantly reminded that the main characters are questioning their feelings? Gah Gah Gah Gah Gah. I do no recommend this book. Yet, I’m going to finish. Because creepy bad guy.
- What’s Up Next?
- Something from this list:
- Richard Paul Evans’s The Walk
- C.T. Phipps’s The Rules of Supervillainy
- JD Barker’s The Fourth Monkey
- Ashley Posten’s Geekerella
- Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
- Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry