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Title: Deadly Deception by Brenda Gunn, Shannon Richardson ISBN: 0-312-98103-1 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 13 July, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: This has got TV movie written all over it...
Comment: Agreeing with previous reviewers, the stars are for Brenda Gunn's courage, not for the writing style. It's a great story but Ann Rule should've written it. The trashy novel style is not meant to be used for true crime--I skipped a lot of pages (cut to the chase, so to speak) because I lost all patience with the writing style. Brenda is an intelligent woman who made a good living and smart investments but she married a guy only 2 months after meeting him and he turned out to be an ex-con...the entire marriage and relationship was a set-up involving the woman Brenda thought was her best friend: maximum betrayal. Hats off to Brenda for getting smart just in time to save her own life, but I sure wouldn't have gotten the tombstone with hearts and planned to be buried beside the guy who literally died trying to murder me....
Rating: 2
Summary: Great Story, Painful Writing Style
Comment: Brenda Gunn's story is compelling and frightening, and that's why I managed to finish this book, despite the awful writing. I then promptly threw it in the trash. Besides having to endure the graphic love scenes involving these very unattractive people, all of the characters were one-dimensional and spouted the worst TV-movie dialogue imaginable. And the story was so one-sided (since the victim wrote it), and left many ends hanging. For instance, what happened to Jane, the best friend whose affair with the husband precipitated all of this? What about Morgan, the guy who was stalking Brenda?
It's hard to believe that even a love-starved, lonely woman wouldn't figure out there was a problem when she was almost killed in a fire, run off the road, poisoned, set up for a lion attack, and her pets started dying off. Throughout it all, Brenda portrays herself as an innocent, naive, loving wife, which actually comes across as incredible naivete and desperation for the love of even a complete louse such as her husband.
It's a very sad and dramatic story, and in the right hands, could have been a good book. But this effort is terribly misdirected, and this book is one of the worst I have ever read.
Rating: 1
Summary: Deluded perception
Comment: I love true crime and I have read many. This was one of the worst books I have ever read. Some of the situations are so ridiculously portrayed, you know they are exaggerated, if at all true. Every character fits into overused fictionalized story stereotypes. Imagine the worst Lifetime TV Movie, and it would be worse than that. To top it off, there are several descriptions of these two people, whom no one would want to imagine naked, in intimate moments described in typical romance-novel fashion. The bonus is the "love" poem, written by the victim, sounding more like the prose of a third grader. Such a waste of what could have been an interesting story.
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Title: No, Daddy, Don'T!: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge by Irene Pence ISBN: 0786015543 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Dead and Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast by Corey Mitchell ISBN: 0786015179 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Murder in Paradise : A Christmas in Hawaii Turns to Tragedy by Chris Loos, Rick Castberg ISBN: 0060093463 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Family Blood: The Murder That Shattered an All-American Home by Lyn Riddle ISBN: 0786015519 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Evidence of Murder: A Twisted Killer's Trail of Violence by Samuel Roen ISBN: 0786015535 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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