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Review: ADAM by Ted Dekker
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I’ve always liked a good suspense novel. In the past I’ve struggled with finding great suspense without horrid language, because Christian authors just didn’t write great suspense. My wait for the perfect, clean suspense novel is now over.
ADAM is the first novel I’ve read by author Ted Dekker. It won’t be my last. It took me about two chapters to get so wrapped up in the book that I couldn’t put it down.
The Plot:
FBI behavioral psychologist, Daniel Clark, is in pursuit of a serial killer by the name of Eve. While on the case, Daniel is killed….but is resuscitated twenty minutes later. Convinced that the key to finding Eve is hidden in those twenty minutes he was dead, Daniel tries with everything he has to regain his memory during that time.
My Opinion:
ADAM kept me on the edge of my seat from the moment I picked it up until the moment I was finished. Dekker brilliantly weaved the plot in between short snippets of “news articles” about a very disturbed young man.
This is not a book to read when you’re home alone. The plot takes several twists and turns that you don’t see coming. It’s suspenseful and realistic, but not to the point of becoming macabre.
If you want a book that is suspenseful, scary, and unpredictable, ADAM is the book for you!
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Oh, my…I can’t wait to read this one! I love Ted Dekker’s books. And all of them are that way…so intense and involving, that you can’t put them down and have to keep reading until you’re through. I really like the way he writes with so much suspense, but so many layers of spiritual truth. The “Red” series was the first books I read of Dekker, and all three books were amazing! Make sure you set aside a big block of time to read, because you won’t be able to put them down.
OOps! That’s actually called “The Circle Trilogy”…sorry.
The books’ names are Red, Black, and White. I found them at the library when I read them.
Ok… as skilled of an author as I think Ted Dekker is, I’m having difficulty with some of the details to Adam. My first is with Daniel’s death for twenty minutes. I just haven’t seen anything to suggest it possible to come back from that long of a span of clinical death, at least, not without some degree of brain damage. That, and the thought of memories when dead. I mean, I can see crossing over and seeing those on the other side, but not memories of life on Earth. Perhaps I’m alone in being bugged by these things, but they plagued me nonetheless.