Blink of an Eye

I have never read a Ted Dekker, and it wasn't too bad. There were some inaccuracies about Muslims (Calling them "Arabic men" instead of "Arab men"), and some of the dialogue was incredibly sappy or frivolous at times, but I did want to keep listening to the audiobook. So, that says something. He is above average for Christian fiction. The narrator was OK, but he didn't do the greatest job with women's voices, especially Miriam's! It was a bit annoying to hear his high pitched "woman voice."

Seth has an IQ higher than Einstein and looks much cuter. Speaking with his friend and mentor Samuel Harland, he acknowledges that there is a God; the evidence in the order of the world makes this apparent. However, Seth also maintains that prayer cannot be effective when an all-knowing God has pre-decided the future. Then he starts seeing visions of the immediate future, meets an Arabian princess, and his world is flipped on its end.

I picked Blink of an Eye up on a whim on a recent trip to the library. I read the cover and it sounded like an interesting story. Boy meets girl, boy helps girl out run even suppressive Muslim type people who want to drag her back to her country.

What I got was this weird book with a supernatural twist that just didn't seem to jive with the story as a whole, came out of no where, had no explanation and just defied any sense of believability. Perhaps if I had known about this little twist when I picked up the book it wouldn't have been so bad. But as I was unprepared for it every time Seth "saw" all the possible futures I just rolled my eyes and thought 'here we go again.' This ability of Seth's allowed him and Mirim to defy all odds to show more escape and outwit the various people who where chasing them (government agents, assassins, and the like). Therefore the book was less interesting me than if Seth had been able to outwit all these people/groups using just his wits alone. After all Seth was supposed to be some sort of genius, yet his intellect didn't come into play as much as his ability to see the future.

Overall I was disappointed in this novel. I excepted a fun little adventure book and it just never delivered. After reading this I'll probably think twice about picking up another book by Ted Dekker.

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One of Dekker's most interesting tales yet! I was worried that the end might be a let down, but it is certainly not! I love how simple a concept it is and the intellectual context it contains. He put so much though and research into this novel, you can just tell!

The good: high tension adventure. The less good: cardboard characters and a very predictable plot. By the way, my copy just titles this book "Blink."

I didn't finish reading this book. It had good potential with interesting characters and an interesting situation. I stopped reading when the pre-cognition stuff started. It was unnecessary to the plot. So many books and so little time---well, I'll move on to another book.

Ebook version from the library. This was a great love story without sex or profanity. There was plenty of action and suspense to keep me turning the pages and engaged.