All Around the Town
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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-02-16
Summary: "An Eye Opening and Frightening Thriller"
Four-year-old Laurie Kenyon was a happy child, living a normal life with parents who loved her and her older sister. One day she sees a line of cars slowly driving by and, thinking it's a carnival, she goes outside to check and is abducted. Two years later a cashier in a café happens to see her and a couple hours later she's left by the side of the road and returned to her family.
However her abductors have told her what will happen to her if she ever tells, and for a little girl who has spent the last two years trapped with cruel and perverse people who had been abusing her, that wasn't a warning to be taken lightly.
Fifteen years later Bic and Opal Hawkins, the couple that had abducted little Laurie, are televangelists, making a slick buck doing God's work. However, though they may have their evil eyes on heaven, they have them on Laurie too, who is now a senior in college.
Laurie is going through a tramatic period. Her parents have been killed in a bus crash. Her sister is overly protective. She's left her boyfriend and doesn't seem to know why. she's apparently obsessing over one of her professors and begins writing him erotic letters. Then the prof is murdered and Laure is suspect number one.
Did she do it? Can her lawyer sister help her? Two good questions and before they can be answered, it's discovered that Laurie is suffereing from MPD, multiple personality disorder. It seems there is more than one person in Lauire's head, a result of when she was living with the evil abuductors. When her abuse got so bad she couldn't stand it anymore, she'd hide in her head, go to a safe place. Is she still doing it? Did one of her personalities kill the prof without letting Laurie in on it?
Of course, the God fearing, child rapers are keeping an eye out to see if Laurie remembers and that's what really makes this book a thriller. However, I must admit, I had a hard time thinking about the child abuse. The book did, though, open my eyes to MPD. Over all, I'd have to say this was a story well worth reading.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-01-30
Summary: "All Around The Town"
One of her earlier ones, not as good as thr newer ones but still a good novel
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-27
Summary: "She knows how to write"
When you read a novel that:
Thrills you.
Could be true.
Gives you something to think about.
Shows you how to survive an ordeal.
Teaches you the meaning of love...
And you cry because you ended it.
The book deserves SIX stars.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-27
Summary: "She knows how to write"
When you read a novel that:
Thrills you.
Could be true.
Gives you something to think about.
Shows you how to survive an ordeal.
Teaches you the meaning of love.
And you cry because you ended it.
The book deserves SIX stars.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-08-24
Summary: "it was good"
i liked it. easy to read and fun. Not much of a brain buster but entertaining. A little forgettable, however...