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Title: Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder by Ann Rule, Blair Brown ISBN: 0-7435-0824-6 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (110 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved this book!
Comment: As a long-time reader of Ann Rule, I am pleased to say that this is her best book yet. While reading this unbelievable story, you will feel like you personally know the characters. Of all of Rule's protagonists, Allen Blackthorne is the most intriguing. He had everything anyone could want, and really nothing to gain by killing his ex-wife, but just couldn't allow her to slip away from his grasp. Well researched and written!
Rating: 5
Summary: Ann Rule Does it Again!
Comment: I read the reviews of this book and frankly, I was puzzled. Several people wrote to say they lost sympathy for victim Shelia Bellush and that they could not understand why she would stay in a relationship if she was so "terrified." Those who wrote with these views have obviously never even heard of spousal abuse and have no idea what men on power trips can do to a woman. I thought this book was fascinating...Ann's keen look into a cold-blooded killer's mind kept me up into the wee hours of the night. I couldn't wait to get home from work the next day to finish the book and I hope that Ann, at this very moment, is sitting at her desk working on her next masterpiece.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not up to par
Comment: I've read all of Ann Rule's books, including her pseudonymous ones. They are invariably compelling studies of both victims and killers. This time out, it seems as if Rule was so fearful of saying anything negative about Sheila Bellush (the victim) that the woman is scarcely more than a shadow. Her ex-husband Allen is, in true Rule fashion, defined so thoroughly that he comes across in all his horrifying reality. So do Sheila's second husband Jamie, her two daughters from Allen; even her four quads feel real. But Rule is so cautious in her descriptions of Sheila herself that the book becomes very heavy-going, very one-sided as a result. As well, because so much detail is paid to the litigious battles engaged in by Allen and Sheila in the ten years after their divorce, one has to wonder why a woman who believed her ex-husband was very capable of killing her would (despite her desire to provide for her children) constantly seek to even the score with him in a courtroom.
I do not believe, ever, in blaming the victim, but I think in failing to deliver a clear picture of Sheila, we're left with the extraordinary tale of a woman in fear of her life, yet not so fearful that she'd stop poking a stick into the cage holding the lion. Given how well every other character (even the most minor ones) are defined, it's a great pity that the central character remains so shadowy and undefined.
This book simply isn't on the same level as Dead By Sunset or And Never Let Her go--tales that show just what Rule can do when she pulls out all the stops.
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Title: Last Dance, Last Chance by Ann Rule ISBN: 067102535X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED by Ann Rule ISBN: 067169071X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lust Killer by Ann Rule, Andy Stack ISBN: 0451166876 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: DEAD BY SUNSET : DEAD BY SUNSET by Ann Rule ISBN: 0671001132 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: And Never Let Her Go : Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer by Ann Rule ISBN: 0671868713 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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