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Written by Staff
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Monday, 23 February 2009 04:57 PM America/New_York |
 BoneMan's Daughters- Ted Dekker
- Center Street (Hachette Book Group)
- hardcover, 416 pages, $24.99
- 978-1599951959
- BoneMan's Daughters, the first general market targeted release from popular fiction author Dekker, is just as intense and suspenseful as Dekker's Christian market releases, including the best-seller Three. The book takes the reader on an emotional and spiritual journey, as the author puts the characters through hell on earth, tearing them down to an extreme point of vulnerability. .
- After being taken by the serial killer Boneman, who breaks the bones of his victims without breaking their skin, Bethany is able to identify with her captor. She is very much aware of the shallowness of her mother's love, and is scarred by the abandonment of her father, Ryan Evans. After a traumatic experience of his own, however, Ryan seeks to rescue her while wondering if he will find her too late, after she has already been broken and killed.
- The overall theme deals with the issues of the pain of abandonment and rejection. It is a picture of the importance of a father in the lives of not only their children, but their children's mother as well. Longtime Dekker readers will once again be captivated by this book, although some Christian readers may find some of the language (PG-type slang and by-words) in the mainstream-targeted book questionable.
- -Jon Grubbs
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