POSSESSION

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Summary: Far Fetched
Review: A hard-working cop and a bored housewife want a romantic get-away in hopes that she will conceive. Why in God's name would they choose a camping trip, in the middle of nowhere, with bugs, snakes and wild animals. The relationship that ensues between wifey and the stranger is also a stretch.I had to force myself to finish this book. For someone who writes TRUE stories this was a far cry from anything believable. Ms. Rule's true crime stories are excellent. Needless to say, I was disappointed with this book.

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Summary: A good book, but the ending seemed lame.
Review: Ann Rule took a long time to establish her characters at first. However; once you get mid-way through the book, you realize it is because the characters are complex. This book is very intense. It is hard to put down at times. The only thing I did not like was the ending. When I finished reading the novel, I felt like I missed something. It seemed to end wrong.

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Summary: Ann Rule's finest erotic work.
Review: Ann Rule wrote the story of a young couple on a camping trip from Hell! The hero is murdered and the murderer is sexually obsessed with his sexy young wife, Joanne Lindstrom. He captures her, strips and rapes her several times over, and the poor victim is helpless in the woods and grows dependent on the evil "Red Man" She even falls in love with him, and he succeeds in planting his seed in her belly. This sounds like some wild male rape fantasy, but Ms. Rule wrote it, not I. Strange crime story, with highly explicit rape scenes. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Stick to True Crime
Review: Anne Rule should stick to true crime, I purchased this book thinking it would be a great read and I got very bored with it. The story is vaguely familiar and it just didn't flow right. At the end, it seemed that even Ann bored of it and had to finish it off somehow. It reads more like a male sex fantasy and the female character is so weak that she succumbs so easily kind of threw me. I thought the story would be more like "Kiss the Girls" where the victim has to fight to live and overcomes the horrendous fear. It just left me feeling that it was a waste of time reading it. It was meant to be a psychological thriller but it didn't achieve that for me as an avid true crime reader. I've read better from her and I was disappointed.

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Summary: Terribly Disappointing...........
Review: First I want to say that I am probably the biggest Ann Rule fan, I have read every non-fiction book she has ever written...but I was shocked that she would even attempt a fictional book! I feel there is so much REAL CRIME out there, why would anyone want to make up something like this up? This was a big disappointment!

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Summary: SHAMEFUL!
Review: First I want to say that I am probably the biggest Ann Rule fan, I have read every non-fiction book she has ever written...but I was shocked that she would even attempt a fictional book! I feel there is so much REAL CRIME out there, why would anyone want to make up something like this up? This was a big disappointment!

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Summary: Unbelievable and riduculous but love your nonfiction!
Review: Found the story hard to get into, and the author did not seem to be sure where she wanted to go with this story. Too much explicit violence, etc. Please stick to non-fiction writing which is superb.

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Summary: Needs more surprises and thrills
Review: I almost didn't finish reading Ms. Rule's first work of fiction. She deals with a sinister side of humanity where a reader probably won't find much to admire in any of the characters. They are all flawed with alcoholism, career burnout, or ignorance. As the main characters were being developed, I became somewhat depressed. The story becomes chilling on the camping trip, but I desperately needed more mystery and surprises in the story than I received. I enjoyed seeing Sam's attorney work her legal magic in the pre-trial stage, and I was fairly satisfied with the ending. Although Ms. Rule has obvious talent as a writer, there is other more satisfying fiction in your bookstore dying to be read.

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Summary: Needs more surprises and thrills
Review: I almost didn't finish reading Ms. Rule's first work of fiction. She deals with a sinister side of humanity where a reader probably won't find much to admire in any of the characters. They are all flawed with alcoholism, career burnout, or ignorance. As the main characters were being developed, I became somewhat depressed. The story becomes chilling on the camping trip, but I desperately needed more mystery and surprises in the story than I received. I enjoyed seeing Sam's attorney work her legal magic in the pre-trial stage, and I was fairly satisfied with the ending. Although Ms. Rule has obvious talent as a writer, there is other more satisfying fiction in your bookstore dying to be read.

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Summary: Terribly Disappointing...........
Review: I am the first to tout Ann Rule's writing and investigative brilliance, but this writing was NOT her finest hour. It read like a bad Harliquin sex novel, only longer! I will continue to devour anything by this talented writer, as long as it remains in the non-fiction realm.