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"This was his art - painting with her blood."Young Maggie Harris has no delusions regarding the existence of monsters. She knows they are real. She knows they sneak up and grab you before you know they are there. She knows because it happened to her. After five years of captivity, Maggie is returned. Her family and the entire community are then plunged into the nightmare world of child prostitution and pornography. As investigators struggle to apprehend those responsible, they follow the trail of a madman, who leaves grisly clues and bodies in his wake. Can Maggie ever really be free?

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 9 reviews)

3 1/2 Stars by Red Adept (Carolinas)

3 Stars
December 28, 2009
Plot/Storyline: 3 Stars While the plot was sound, the storyline was disappointing. I was confused from the beginning as it took the author way too long to inform the reader as to how old Maggie was when she was abducted. At one point, the mother is looking at mothers with their toddlers in a park and feeling melancholy for her own daughter, so I thought the child must have been very young when abducted. Even the flashbacks of the times before the abduction were too ambiguous for me to determine a correct age. Later, I found out that Maggie was eight years old at the time of the abduction. After she was returned, I was surprised and dismayed at how quickly she seemed to make strides in her recovery. I would imagine that five years of intense physical and sexual abuse would not even begin to heal in two short weeks. Also, although her abusers were men, Maggie seems to have no problem at all trusting the many men she comes into contact with after her return. There were multiple incidences of unrealistic thoughts and feelings. When the mother went to pick up the daughter after not having seen her in five years, she thinks that her daughter is smaller than she should be. How would she know? Personally, when I look at my twenty year old son, who I watched grow up daily, I am still surprised at times how big he is. I would have thought the mother's reaction would be quite the opposite, at least her very first impression should have been shock that her daughter had grown in her absence. The ending would have been better had it stopped with the chapter containing the climax. Everything after that seemed to just be trying to wrap up loose ends to give everyone some sort of happy ending, in one instance to the point of being ridiculous. Character Development: 3 1/2 Stars A great job was done on Fiske, the villain of the story. He had great depth of character with plenty of information to back up his personality, motivation and actions. The mother, while mostly believable, was often overdramatized. Her reactions, such as the one mentioned above, seemed to be put in to get a point across, instead of to show how a mother would really feel. The father, while a horrifying jerk, was still an interesting character. He was never overplayed, but his nasty aura hung over the story to give it more flavor. Maggie, the child, was the failure here. As I mentioned above, she made way too much progress in such a short amount of time. Writing Style: 3 Stars The writing style was very simplistic, and the sentences flowed well for easy reading. However, this simplistic style just didn't match up with the violent subject matter. The style seemed more suited to a romantic thriller than a novel of such horrific child abuse. The dialogue was good through most of the book, giving each character a distinctive voice. The descriptions were vivid and worked well within the story. Editing/Formatting: 5 Stars Both were of professional quality. Rating: R for Child Rape, Violence, Blood & Gore, Detailed Descriptions of all of this.

Review of Tell Me That You Like It by Kali Sekhmet (Australia)

3 Stars
May 03, 2009
I'm happy to see anyone get their work published, and I'm happy that anyone's being creative, because I think it's good for a person to explore themselves, but the honest truth is that this book needs some more work. Writing a novel is hard work, and this is the author's first novel, I believe, so I don't want to be rude and harsh, but buyers need the truth about what they're getting when they purchase this book. I like the idea of this story, and I think it has the potential to be a good book, but I'll tell you the things that ruined it for me, so that you, as a buyer, can make up your own mind whether or not to spend money on this book. 1. The author seems to get very emotional when she writes, and this emotion gets written into the characters. So the characters are very over-emotional, much more than anyone would be in real life. They are always on the verge of tears, always hugging each other, and always not being able to bear the thought of child pornography. All of them are this way, nurses, police officers, friends etc. People in real life aren't so wimpy. 2. Though the story is told in third-person narration, the narrator often gets confused with the characters and the boundaries blur between them. When the author describes her "bad guy" Mr. Fiske, she "becomes" him, as if she were in his head, describing what he's thinking, rather than stepping back and giving the readers an objective look of who he is. I found, with the author's approach, I couldn't get an objective view of who this man is and why he does the things he does. I feel that if the author wanted to get so close to the characters, she should have written them in first-person, because third-person is supposed to be more objective. 3. The story is very early '90s. In the early '90s there was this big rush of social workers and child protection workers conjuring up monster stories about child porn and abuse and the vast networks and organizations behind it. Those people assumed that there were very clever, very powerful people getting away with everything and there was no one who could stop them, and that millions of kids were experiencing the most dramatic abuses every minute. In this book, the child-porn monster Mr. Fiske is untouchable. He can take anyone off the street with ease. He can kidnap, murder, torture, and run a child porn business as easy as most people brush their teeth. If he wants to kidnap a person, he just does it, and no one can stop him or find him. Things aren't that simple in real life. To think it all is seems just a tad silly, and so I found it difficult to take this book seriously. 4. This book's not explicit. I think if you're going to write about child porn, you should make it gritty and explicit. If you're going to portray a pervert, portray his perversion in real, honest detail. Without that, I felt like I was reading a child's book. 5. The dialogue is wrong. The characters often say things that I can't imagine a person saying in that situation. The author doesn't explain why her characters are saying these things. They get emotional, pained, angry, and sad for no reason I can discern, without proper explanation of why they're feeling that way. Aside from that, the author seems like a nice person, and I wish her very well, but those above things just degraded the book for me. With some more work, I'm sure the author could write a good book. In the meanwhile, buyers might like to try Meg Tilly's "Gemma", a book that's so down-to-earth that I'm jealous anyone can write that good.

Suspenful, Amazing, Great Read... by Lady Dreamer (Clifton, NJ)

5 Stars
March 07, 2009
This book was amazing. I couldn't put it down. The author does a wonderful job in keeping you in suspense the entire time. It was a little graphic in some parts but that made it seem all the more real. I absolutely recommend this book to anyone. Very well done. Great read.

A "Must Read!" by Cathi B. Thornton (Richmond, Va)

5 Stars
July 13, 2006
Terre Sadler is a new breakthrough literary voice that must be heard! She writes with such clarity-her characters with depth. This is a mature book that deals with adult subject matter allow s the reader to face the context head on. This is a GREAT thriller- a "must read"! I look forward to reading her next book!

Well Written Thriller by M. Luring (Richmond, Virginia)

5 Stars
July 01, 2006
This is an amazing first novel, one of the best books I have read in a long time. It deals with the unpleasant underworld of child poronography and prostitution, yet this story also focuses on the the healing power of friendship and caring. There is plenty of action with unexpected twists and turns as this thriller moves toward resolution. Ms. Sadler is a strong writer and we look forward to her continuing success and to her next books. It is an honor to support and recommend this work.

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