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Title: A Reason To Live : The True Story of One Woman's Love, Courage and Determination to Survive by Billy Hills, Dale Hudson ISBN: 0-9708424-0-6 Publisher: Front Street Publishing Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Reason to Live, the true story of one woman's love, courag
Comment: I was hooked on this one from the very first page. The authors immediately began building suspense and the reader knew that something terrible was going to happen. The action is quick and decisive. It is a page turner that I read in only two sittings and kept thinking about long after I'd finished the book.
The characterization is excellent. As I was introduced to Wanda Summers and her family, I felt I really knew them. They are not simply stereotypes, but impact the reader as living, breathing people.
You cannot read this book without feeling the pain, incredible courage and, eventually, the triumph of Wanda and Jimmy Summers, along with the other tragic victims in the case. A Reason to Live graphically demonstrates the full impact of a vicious crime on the victims and their families. It also makes us all uncomfortably aware of just how vulnerable we all are.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Explosive, Powerful True Crime Novel
Comment: WOW! For the first time in a long time, I am left speechless after reading a book. I am not a big reader in this genre, but from the moment I read the first chapter of A Reason To Live and learned from Jimmy Summers "the truth" about his wife's face, I was hooked. I am told the first few pages sells a book, and let me tell you after the first paragraphs I was sold on this one. I could not stop reading until I found out what had happened to Wanda's face and how she had survived. Finally, after putting everything else on hold, my family, my job, etc. I finished A Reason To Live. If you are looking for a powerful story, whose plot and characters literally explode off the page and grab you, well, this is one of those. This is the first book I have read by authors Hills and Hudson, but they wrote a wonderful story. I can't recall any other story like this one, which told the story from the victim's point of view. Probably in the hands of another true crime author this would have been a different story, directed more toward the acts and behavior of the criminal, and we would have never gotten to hear the other side of the story, Jimmy and Wanda Summer's story of determination and survival. I think we need more books like A Reason To Live, which depict the "true" horrors of crime-the victims. Kudos to the authors for giving us what so few other true crime writers have had the foresight to do. And my prayer is that God would comfort and heal all the families involved in this terrible tragedy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring Story of Courageous Woman
Comment: Wanda Summers is a courageous woman who fought to live
and survive at the hands of sociopath Rusty Woomer and
Eugene Skarr. The story is so well-written I felt as if
I was right there with her, Louise Sellers, and the
other victims all the time. The authors did a very
credible job of mixing the action and narrative so as
to keep the story moving forward. Most true crime stories
have several sections which are difficult to read, but
not so with this one. Thumbs up for this story and the
authors. I am off to find something else they have written.
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Title: Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death by Ann Rule ISBN: 0743202988 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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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: Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells by Diane Fanning ISBN: 0312985258 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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: Dangerous Attractions by Robert Scott ISBN: 0786015144 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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