The Perfect Husband

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Summary: I HAD TO HOLD MY BREATH A FEW TIMES
Review: OKAY, FIRST OFF I HAVE TO ADMIT THIS WAS A VERY GOOD BOOK. THE ONLY PARTS THAT I WAS NOT INTERESTED IN WERE THE SEX SCENES. I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW YOU CAN LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE THEY ARE F-ING YOU. I DONT THINK THERE WAS ANY CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE TWO MAIN CHARACTERS AND THEY SHOULDNT HAVE GOTTEN TOGETHER IN THE END.
I THINK WHAT HAPPENED TO MARION WAS A CHEAP WAY OUT. SHE WAS A STRONG PERSON TO BE KILLED OFF SO QUICKLY(SORRY TO SPOIL). I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK THOUGH. YOU WILL DEFINITLY GET GOOSE BUMPS.
TRY TO ENJOY EVEN WITH THE HARSH SEX SCENES.

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Summary: A REAL PAGE-TURNER!!
Review: Tess fell in love with police officer Jim Beckett when she was a 17 year old high school cheerleader.....three years after their marriage, she helped put him behind bars for brutally murdering over ten women!! Not wanting to spend the rest of her life running in fear with her daughter, she decides to take matters in her own hands and hires an ex-marine, JT, to teach her how to defend herself and use a gun.....you see, Jim has escaped the maximum security prison and Tess knows he'll eventually find her!! This was much grittier than her other great book, The Other Daughter, therefore it's not for everyone....I skipped over a few paragraphs that I found to be too violent for me....however, the author did an outstanding job at keeping us on the edge of our seats..........I was holding my breath towards the end of the book!! Don't read it at night......!!

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Summary: Escape from Perfection
Review: There is nothing perfect about any of the characters in this book. Theresa Matthews, pretty high school cheerleader in a small town, had to endure her demanding and violent father. J.T. Dillion and his younger sister Marion had to deal with the harsh discipline and incestuous acts of a career military father. A key component of the book is the continuing impact of their childhood traumas. Can one ever really escape such detrimental pasts?


Theresa could have never anticipated that her marriage to a handsome local cop, Jim Beckett, would turn into a nightmare, not to be believed. The psychological warfare perpetrated on Theresa for her alleged wifely imperfections paled compared to her realization after two years of marriage that her husband was the massively sought, local serial killer of women. Her husband nearly killed her in his capture six months later, and, despite his incarceration, she was convinced of his ability to exact revenge. Now, two years later, her name change to Tess Williams and her constant moving become a matter of life and death when her ex-husband kills several guards in escaping from a maximum-security prison.


Tess makes the gutsy decision to reject police protection, but, through the referral of the detective on the case, seeks out the help of ex-marine, tough-guy, J.T. Dillion to prepare her to resist the onslaught that she knows is coming. But J.T. is in the midst of a weeklong drinking binge, attempting to drown his sorrow over the hit-and-run death of his wife and child several years before. The arrival of Marion, now a FBI agent, results in all manner of recriminations and the fighting of demons from the past. The immediate needs of Tess become almost secondary to the bigger question of whether these three individuals can move past their harmful pasts to deal with the very real threat of the future. It is an interesting aspect of the book to observe the tentative attempts to help and heal on the part of these characters.


But the book is not all just examining personal distress. The plot moves quickly as the "perfect husband" indulges in a far more perfectly developed criminal intuition to stay ahead of the authorities and wreak havoc on their mental state and lives. The reader may wonder just a bit as to the basis of Mr. Beckett's pathology. It is not explored, although his cold-hearted compulsions seem to ring true. In addition, the relationship of J.T. and Tess may seem improbable to some, but again there seems to be a certain credibility to it. The book is definitely recommended.


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Summary: Scaaarreeeeeee!
Review: This is the scariest fiction I've ever read!!!!! I've read it at least 5 times now and I've loaned it out 4 times and no one ever returns it! (I don't loan it out anymore.)I've read "The Other Daughter" and " The Third Victim" which were both very good, but did not come up to the standard of "The Perfect Husband". I am getting ready to read (belatedly) "The Next Accident" and I'm hoping it will be as scary as her first. She has a wicked talent and I think it's probably hard to top something as scary as the first book she wrote, but I hope she'll keep trying!