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    Heaven's Wager
    Heaven's Wager
    Heaven's Wager
    Audiobook16 hours

    Heaven's Wager

    Written by Ted Dekker

    Narrated by Tim Gregory

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    It was an absolutely perfect day . . . until everything went absolutely perfectly wrong.

    Kent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. He's finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and murder and other kinds of horrible criminal behavior.

    He's left his past far behind. Or so he thinks.

    But in Heaven's Wager Kent will come face-to-face with a hidden world more real than most people ever realize--a world where the unseen is more powerful than anything seen.

    • Book 1 in the Heaven/Martyr's Song trilogy
      • Bonus book 1.5: The Martyr's Song
      • Book 2: When Heaven Weeps
      • Book 3: Thunder of Heaven
    • Book length: appr. 80,000 words
    • Gripping supernatural suspense
    • New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker's first novel
    • Also by Ted Dekker: The Circle Series (Black, Red, White, Green)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateOct 1, 2019
    ISBN9781401605667

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    • 5/5
      An incredible deep dive in the trapped mind of anyone who has ever been wronged and could not get past it. The lure of the suffering mind to pay back the offenders even at the cost of integrity thus becoming the very thing that triggered his suffering to begin with. Funny, thought provoKing, entertaining cautionary tale on the thoughts we entertain and follow through with . Loved it.
    • 1/5
      I wish I could get these missing hours of my life back! I think this is the first time in my life that I have disliked a novel this much. My hubby & I listened to it on the road & we both thought it was absolutely TERRIBLE! Several dozen “scenes” dragged on for several minutes (or more!) when they should have been 1-2 minutes long. Neither of us can say anything good about it.

      That said, we listened to Dekker’s 49th Mystic books & absolutely loved them. Try one of those instead.
    • 3/5
      This book was too drawn out for the ending to be subpar.
    • 5/5
      Lots of twists and turns to keep you engrossed in the story. Intense and engaging. Great story
    • 5/5
      This goes with the Martyr's Song series and was another powerful message. Some of the plot was pretty far-fetched and the dialogue was a bit cheesy, but overall I loved the book.
    • 2/5
      I really wanted to like this book. In fact, I was -expecting- to like it, which probably makes it even worse. I've heard so much about how amazing Ted Dekker is, but... eh.None of the characters come across as...well, anything. They're all incredibly dull, and the plot isn't good enuogh for me to not care about the flat characters. I got fifty pages in, flipped through the rest, and decided that I really couldn't take reading another three hundred pages of it.I'm going to read some of Ted Dekker's later stuff, and I seriously hope it's better.