Seth Borders, a genius student in the graduate program at Berkley, thinks he's seeing things. Not hallucinations, exactly. Definitely not "visions"- the term has too many religious connotations. More like- the future. The future is just math, after all- calculating possibilities. Seth has always been brilliant at math- though the future thing is starting to freak him out a little...
Blink.
Miriam is on the run. Her father is trying to force her into a political marriage to a man she knows to be More...

I loved this book!!
An adventure, romance and a man and a woman's search for the Truth. It was incredibly well written, fast-paced, easy to read and easy to understand, plus a hilarious, frightening and edge-of-your-seat plot.
An atheist student (Seth Border) at a small college with an IQ of 196 (Einstein's was 160 something) who has discovered a strange ability he has to see multiple futures in the blink of an eye, runs into a Saudi Arabian Princess on the run from her family and her nation, who More...

Amazing writing. It is obvious Ted is a Christian but he never preaches at you. He just lets the character cope with the situation in their lives and watches God deliver.

This particular book appealed to the linear side of my brain. His progression was so logical and made such sense. I loved how he blended the fact-based person with the faith-based person to bring about change in both of their lives.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I'll keep it and read it again.

I actually read "Blink of an Eye" which is a revised edition of Blink. I had never read anything by Ted Dekker only watched a few of his movies. I am not one to read scary books as I get nightmares, but this one was fine in that area. I really enjoyed this book. I have recommended it to many people since reading it and they have all really liked it as well. It has a bit of romance, lots of adventure, and some suspense. I learned a great deal about the culture in Saudi Arabia that I had no idea w More...

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Ted Dekker is one of my favourite authors and Blink was a book I read quite a while back - I'm not even sure exactly when. I just finished reading it today again, though, and have to admit that it's still just as good as I remember.

I found the characters really interesting and engaging. I'm afraid I know very little about Saudi Arabia, so I can't comment on accuracy with its portrayal. I will say that the brutality in the book was quite upsetting - particularly More...

Not Dekker's best book. I really liked the potential futures idea and it was well-described.

I had some issues with the depth of characterization - it was hard to connect to Seth emotionally as his head was hard to get into.

Samir was sadly underused. I was rooting for him, not Seth, to get the girl... but his presence was limited and not entirely positive.

And I'd no clue how the sheik wanted Omar to 'win the love' of Miriam and yet... he knew that as soon as he gave her to him, there would be More...

I first read this book about five years ago, and then read the newer "Blink of an Eye" version last year.
I feel like genius-who-is-morally-right-but-legally-wrong is overused and often badly used, but this novel is amazing. When I think about the novel, I somehow feel that it has a long plotline filled with details, but while reading it, it certainly did not drag on. I was kept in suspense for most of it, and some of the twists and turns were really clever. The characters were developed in a way More...

Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekker grabs the reader into the story on the first page. Seth Border was a certified genius and he knew it. He was sure he discovered an equation that disproved the existence of God. He decided that the future was unchangeable, predestined, and out of human control. Then, one day Seth began to see glimpses of the future, allowing him to catch people before they tripped and know when a bird was about to hit the window. Yet, Seth had no idea where these short glimpses woul More...

Pretty enjoyable. I found it very interesting how it used the story to make you think about philosophical ideas in a different way. However, it annoyed me that the main character was a "genius", but his ideas and arguments were not so genius. They were intelligent enough to really make me think (at one point I had to set down the book and really just think), but I soon thought of a counter argument (which wasn't that complicated). Then for the rest of the book, he kept repeating his argument to More...

This book was a page turner from the beginning. It kept me up late. Most books take me two or three weeks to read, but I read this one in under a week.

The plot is riveting. The main character, Miriam, is destined for a life of brutality and loneliness. Her entire life has been planned for her from the moment of birth and she has absolutely no say in what befalls her. In fact, objections of any kind are a sure death sentence. Women in her culture are nothing more than objects whose sole purpose More...

I won't waste electrons by repeating the plot of the book--there's a sketch above--but I will give my uncensored opinion. This book is an indictment on Anglo bibliophiles. In other words, we're a bunch of tarnal fools, and Ted Dekker knows it.

Here's the method: Take an attention-getting subject like islamic extremism--never mind where you buy it, whether it's the genuine article, or whether you even know what it is. Take some cool surfing stuff from California. Add in some royalty to spice up t More...

This was my first Dekker novel. I found it thoroughly engrossing from the beginning. I enjoyed the whole insight into the Saudi world. Dekker doesn't demonize Islam as so many evangelical Christians; rather you feel as if you're inside the head of a Saudi princess and viewing Western culture from her point of view. This was during the first half, very fast-paced and suspenseful as the heroine, Miriam, finds herself on the run with an American genius/atheist who suddenly finds himself with clairv More...

Another good book by Ted Dekker. All though not his best book, but still the plot and characters make it a book that can stand on its own. The two main characters are certainly very different than each other, one a princess and the other a genius American college student. Both end up falling love, some thing you could see coming from the very beginning. I believe both characters, especially Seth, needed more depth. Seth's genius mind really did seem that noticeable through most of the book. The More...

I've heard a lot of good things about Ted Dekker, and this is my first forray into his work. He writes fast-paced christian fantasy fiction much in the mold of Frank Paretti. In Blink, Dekker follows Seth Borders, a brilliant graduate student who develops a very strange power, the ability to see alternate futures. At first, he can only see a few seconds into the future, but the gift develops into allowing him to see hours into the future. He is able to see an almost infinite number of possible o More...

Ted Dekker- Blink of an Eye (Center Street 2011) 3.75 Stars

With an extremely high IQ, Seth Border thinks he has it made. He is on the fast track to any job that he could ever imagine, until one day a princess from Saudi Arabia stumbles into his path. Now he is seeing bits of the future and trying to keep her from those who wish her harm. Now he is wanted by many deadly groups and he must trust this new skill to keep them safe.

This book got off to a really slow start; I only kept on reading becau More...

First off, Ted Dekker is not qualified to write this novel. He is neither an expert in physics nor an expert in Saudi Arabia. It was almost insulting that he puts on the front of having deep insight into either. Second, the use of seeing the future as a plot device felt like a huge cop out. Dekker takes the supposedly smartest man in the world and instead of using his intellect, he uses magic to get out of the random sticky situations he finds himself in. Don't get me wrong, there is a place for More...

Ted Dekker's "Blink" is a roller-coaster of a book; I had a hard time putting it down at night to get enough sleep for work the next day. You learn a lot about the treatment of women in the Saudi culture (abysmal) and the Muslim belief system. His main hero and heroine are eminently likable, and you cheer for them throughout the book. The latter is a brilliant, though somewhat naive academic, Seth Border, and the former is a Muslim princess from the royal house of Saudi Arabia, Miriam. Their wor More...

More than anything, I really loved the concept behind this book. It was about prayer and trust and questioning God’s omnipitence. Made me think quite a bit about the nature of God and how His view of the future might look and how that affects free will. The writing was very fast-paced, with a bunch of chase scenes broken up by scenes of people planning chases. Every now and again the writing was a little clunky, but it worked for the most part. The whole thing felt a little cliched and overdone, More...

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 p More...

This one is blatantly Christian and horrendously far fetched, with a protagonist with an IQ no one has ever achieved and the gift of precognition that comes and goes, a precognition that not only sees what will happen, but what could happen in all the multiple variants of reality that might result. And he needs that gift: to rescue a Saudi princess from her evil father, evil adopted father, and evil suitor who hopes by marrying the princess to make an alliance to overthrow the Saudi king and tur More...

You think that you have Ted Dekker's style figured out...until you read this novel. How does he utilize such a variety of techniques to continually challenge his reader. Every detail is important. Pay attention to his twisting plotline.

Here is the summary of the book from the jacket cover for those of you Dekker fans or "wanna-be" fans:

"An intoxicating tale set amidst the shifting sands of the Middle East, Blink touches on geopolitical conflicts as ancient as the earth itself. The page-turning p More...

This looked so promising... then it turned out to be about an atheist's revelation of the reality of God, and not in a subtle, thought-provoking way, but ham-fisted and utterly partisan. (I looked up the publisher after I finished and learned that they put out predominantly religious material.)

Brilliant physics student, Seth, suddenly (shortly after developing a mathematical formula that is supposed to demonstrate that God cannot exist) begins having brief visions of the future, only a few secon More...

This was an okay book. It definitely has that Dekker feel, but didn't seem to itch my Dekker desire for suspense and on-the-edge-of-you-seat-action. Why is this? There are two things that I feel contributed largely to this failing.

The plot twist. Yes, there is a plot twist (if there wasn't I would maybe be even more disappointed), but most of the time Dekker tells a fairly regular tale with a few interesting mechanics and characters to draw you in before throwing a curve ball at you 2/3 of the w More...

This book is great! So Miriam runs away to America after she is forced to watch her best friend being drowned by her husband. she goes to a collage that Seth so happens to go to, Seth has a extremely high IQ and had recently developed the ability to see short bursts into the future. Seth "Sees" someone attacking Miriam and rushes to help. they hop in his car and drive away, they have to avoid cops because Miriam DID run away and her father wants to marry her for political gain. cops don't know h More...

This is my second attempt to read Christian "fantasy" fiction this summer. I gave this book 2 stars (would have given it 2.5 stars if possible) because it was a quick read, had somewhat intriguing characters and for the most part, the story line kept me turning pages. At first, I was really into the story, but then the story bogs down as the author literally stops the action to discuss a brief and biased overview of Christianity and Islam. The book is full of stereotypes, lacks proper background More...

This book is comedically bad. It's fine if you need to to write about Christianity and promote it with a story, but this book/story/concept and presentation is drivel. It took me longer than normal to get through a book this short b/c I had a hard time suffering through more than a few pages at a time before needing to put it down.


Suffice it to say I'll not bother reading any Ted Dekker books moving forward. I will admit that Dekker's writing style is decent, meaning sentence structure/vocab etc More...

Picked up in an airport because I'd run out of books and surprisingly good. The action is fast and interesting, the story is set up well, there aren't nearly enough women in a male dominated story but the characters that are here are interesting and well developed for a thriller. I think the thing I liked best, though was the premise. Seth is a good flawed hero who has to sort out the implications of his ability. Some people might not enjoy the quantum physics bits, but I liked the way he handle More...