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Title: Sleeping/Enemy by Nancy Price ISBN: 0-515-09638-5 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: June, 1988 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Super look into domestic violence, great characterization
Comment: This was a treat after seeing the movie. A bit different than the movie, but in many ways better because the reader gets to see into the minds and thoughts of Laura/Sara and Martin, as well as Ben. The movie couldn't help but use some of the parts of the book in exact form, such as the breaking of the lights so Sara finds her way home after jumping off the boat. So many women in similar situations will find inspiration in Sara's courage -- and realism in the book, as she almost turns back a few times and almost calls Martin, despite finding him a monster.

Sara has obviously been beaten many times and frightened of her husband, stays far longer than she should. But the soul-wrenching part is, she DOES get away, and she's able to live again. Highly recommended for all readers of thrillers and especially people interested in domestic violence.

Rating: 5
Summary: The book stands on its own as a great piece of work...
Comment: I was surprised when I found out that the movie was based on a novel by the same name. I was even more surprised when I found the novel at my local library a while back. But what took my breath away was that the book was in fact ten times better and a bit different than the movie.

You probably know the plot and characters by now, so I won't go into that. What I will say is that the writing is some of the best prose I've read in a thriller novel of this kind, and the bad guy (the husband) is one of the most realistic and most interesting villains in modern fiction. The main character, Sara, has life breathed into her through Ms. Price's writing that the movie never had a hope of matching, and I found myself caring for her and those around her greatly, while at the same time anticipating when her husband would find her.

If you've seen the movie, you owe it to yourself to read this book. If you liked the movie, read the book to get an entirely different and much better form of the main plot. If you hated the movie, read the book so you can see how the movie 'should' have been.

Great work, Ms. Price, I'll have to be looking for more novels by her. This book gets a high recommendation from me. Pick it up!

Rating: 5
Summary: Forget the movie and get the book!
Comment: In Sleeping With the Enemy Nancy Price is a spell-binding writer who dodges every Hollywood cliché to write a real "suspenser." In the movie Julie Roberts has only one man to run from-but the Sara Burney of the novel has three. Her husband, a controlling martinet, is the first man she must escape, but two other dangerous men wait where Sara tries to hide. They, too, want to make use of her. The boy next door wants sex. The professor next door, like her husband, distrusts women: he wants a servant so he can write his books.
But Sara is smart, courageous and lucky. She helps two other women, senses her danger, escapes and covers her tracks. The police won't find a dead man in her front hall. Her happy ending is a true one: she's going back to the house she loves and had to abandon. She dreams of every detail of that house as the book closes (while the professor dreams of a useful wife to the very last word). Sara will have a home for her mother and herself, a home that is safe at last, and her own.