EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED

Media:	Paperback
Author:	Ann Rule
Publisher:	Pocket
Release date:	01 December, 1993
Our price:	$7.99

EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED

Average rating: Stars

READ THIS BOOK!

I used to think Dead by Sunset was my favorite, but this one is right up there. What characters! You just can't make this stuff up. If someone tried to convince a fiction reader of it all, it just wouldn't be believable. You won't be able to put it down.

EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED - Ann Rule

what a story

The Bible says that if you refuse to discipline your children you might as well say that you hate them because the effects will be just as bad. The life of Pat Taylor is living proof of this.

If someone had steped forward to straighten Pat out as a child by preaching modesty, and self control and had given her a good spanking when she deserved it things might have been different.

Ann Rule tells a horrifying story of how one woman's jealousy, need for constant attention and greediness ruined the lives of everyone around her. Even people, such as Tom's parents who clearly didn't want to be involved with her were destroyed. It's amazing how long this woman went unchecked.

Now, as for the book itself it has some typical Ann Rule flaws: She tends to idealize her favorite sources to the point where it's ridiculous. Two sources are treated as complete victims who had no responsibility for their actions or failed marriages and I found that extremely annoying. Rule also has a thing about fat people and treats fat like it's a mark of Cain. She also indulges in purple prose. Her description of Zebulon sounds like a high school essayist trying to write like Faulkner. Other than these common Rule quirks the book is fascinating.

Ann Rule - EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED

You will HATE this woman after reading Ann Rule's book...

...like so many of the other reviewers have written, Pat Taylor Allanson is almost too bizarre to be a real person!!! She is the definition of selfish, evil, egocentric, spoiled, and trashy. The fact that she and her mother consider themselves to come from "good breeding" is laughable -- they are a family who, generation after generation, put on teenage shotgun weddings with what seems to be no shame at all...

This is one really selfish and blinded family -- save for the one daughter who bravely reveals the evil deeds of her mother (that, surprisingly, no one else seems to see though they seem blatantly obvious!!!)...

No, this is not Ann Rule's best, in my opinion (I will always be partial to "The Stranger Beside Me"), but despite other reviews, I would highly recommend it... It tells a winding and bizarre tale of a truly selfish and evil woman who will stop at nothing to get "everything she ever wanted", which appears to be the attention of everyone around her... She's pitiful.

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