Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley

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Summary: This is the most contradicting book I have ever read
Review: This book is trash!

It is filled with inconsistency after inconsistency, contradiction after contradiction, wild accusations, allegations, half-truths, and lies.

First, I noticed right off the bat, is Finstad's excessive use of the words "Most likely" and "probably". She offers only her opinions on why things happened with "most likely Priscilla did this because..." She has no facts to back up her claims, just suppositions.

Let me provide some examples. In her book, Child Bride, Suzanne Finstad has Priscilla Presley scheming and plotting to meet Elvis Presley at the age of TEN. It is ludicrous!

Finstad admits that every story ever written about the night Priscilla and Elvis first met all corroborate each other, yet Finstad's story is the sole account out of all the others that begs to differ. Finstad is the sole person out of all these years who has managed to uncover the truth!

And Who does she have to back up her claims? Only one man: Currie Grant. Currie is the individual who took Priscilla to meet Elvis at his house. Currie claims that at 27 years old, married with two children, he made love to 14 year old Priscilla in the backseat of his car as part of a deal for her to meet Elvis. Priscilla has since sued Currie for slander and libel, with a winning court verdict.

This self-proclaimed pedophiliac and statutory rapist is the only person Finstad could come up with to corroborate her story of the night Priscilla and Elvis first met. With his lies, how can we believe anything else this man says? Yet Finstad returns to Currie's accounts of events over and over again throughout the book. Why Finstad gives Currie so much credibility is never explained. The only possible reason I can think of is Finstad's intense desire to paint Priscilla in the most negative light possible, and Currie is the only one who she thought would give credibility to her stories. Little did she know!

Finstad is clearly a jealous woman. She even goes so far as to interview people about Elvis' penis size. Was this necessary?? Did she think that would make her lies seem more believable?

She claims Elvis' only interest in Priscilla was out of quote "impulse and boredom." She claims Elvis' "love of his life" was Ann-Margret, and Debra Paget, AND Anita Wood. He loved all of those women, yet the one woman he did actually marry, Priscilla, he never loved.

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She takes quotes that Priscilla has made and calls them lies, yet in other parts of the book uses quotes by Priscilla to back up her theories. You can't call someone a liar, and then give that same person credence only when you feel their statements give you conviction. Hypocrisy at its best!!

She has so many contradictions throughout this book, oftentimes in the same paragraph, that you'd do best not to waste your time.




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Summary: bad
Review: Where do I begin? I began reading this book with an open mind, having heard good and bad things about it. It is bad. Ms. Finstad comes off as a very jealous woman. She sounds like a 12 year old still mad that she didn't marry Elvis. If you are a fan of either Elvis or Priscilla, don't read this book. If I described this book in one word it would be contradictory. Ms. Finstad constantly refers to the "web of lies" that Priscilla has spun. I find it hard to believe that if the web truly exists, why would she be the first to discover it? Wouldn't some one else have uncoverd it years before? There are countless contradictory ideas in this book. She describes how Priscilla was a master of masking her true emotions then a few pages later she says that once Elvis left Germany Priscilla acted happy go lucky so that meant that Priscilla didn't love Elvis. Couldn't she be masking her true emotions so people didn't think that she was deeply sad? That is just one example. I also don't respect the opinions of her sources. All of whom have reason to be jealous of Priscilla. I find it hard to believe that someone you knew for a year when you were 12 can be a judge of your true character. Ms. Finstad can't even get simple things right. She said Elvis was 11 years older when he was 10. She said they married 7 years after meeting when it was 8. Ms. Finstad needs to understand adoption as well. Priscilla was adopted by her step-father so her name was legally chnaged to Beaulieu but Ms. Finstad tries to say that Priscilla was denying her past by not going by Wagner. There are several sources from the book that say how Priscilla never loved Elvis but these same people go onto TV interviews and say they loved eachother but just couldn't make it work. Elvis was not stupid. He would have known if she didn't love him. The virginity issue is always a hot topic. I'll just say that Elvis thought she was a virgin before and after they got married so I'll leave it at that. I can't even remember every little bit of contradiction in the book right now but rest assured that it is filled with it. Don't waste your money.

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Summary: Jealous author seeks fame
Review: Where do I begin? I began reading this book with an open mind, having heard good and bad things about it. It is bad. Ms. Finstad comes off as a very jealous woman. She sounds like a 12 year old still mad that she didn't marry Elvis. If you are a fan of either Elvis or Priscilla, don't read this book. If I described this book in one word it would be contradictory. Ms. Finstad constantly refers to the "web of lies" that Priscilla has spun. I find it hard to believe that if the web truly exists, why would she be the first to discover it? Wouldn't some one else have uncoverd it years before? There are countless contradictory ideas in this book. She describes how Priscilla was a master of masking her true emotions then a few pages later she says that once Elvis left Germany Priscilla acted happy go lucky so that meant that Priscilla didn't love Elvis. Couldn't she be masking her true emotions so people didn't think that she was deeply sad? That is just one example. I also don't respect the opinions of her sources. All of whom have reason to be jealous of Priscilla. I find it hard to believe that someone you knew for a year when you were 12 can be a judge of your true character. Ms. Finstad can't even get simple things right. She said Elvis was 11 years older when he was 10. She said they married 7 years after meeting when it was 8. Ms. Finstad needs to understand adoption as well. Priscilla was adopted by her step-father so her name was legally chnaged to Beaulieu but Ms. Finstad tries to say that Priscilla was denying her past by not going by Wagner. There are several sources from the book that say how Priscilla never loved Elvis but these same people go onto TV interviews and say they loved eachother but just couldn't make it work. Elvis was not stupid. He would have known if she didn't love him. The virginity issue is always a hot topic. I'll just say that Elvis thought she was a virgin before and after they got married so I'll leave it at that. I can't even remember every little bit of contradiction in the book right now but rest assured that it is filled with it. Don't waste your money.