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Summary: Transcends the event in every way
Review: What Deborah Layton has done by bravely writing her life story is allow society to understand how, in all our individual lives, we are all the same. We yearn for meaning in our lives, we dream of what can be and we sometimes make mistakes. To say that those who joined the Jim Jones movement made a mistake would be to minimize the enormity of the event, but to see where in each of our owns lives we have experienced the same fears, hopes and beliefs then and only then can we understand how such a tragedy could have happened. This book does not explain everything--how could it--yet it brings to life the human condition--to search, live and learn.
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Summary: Put on your running shoes and grab a bottle of water
Review: First, let me catch my breath. Seductive Poison is a hyperventilating, frightening, engrossing, voyeuristic and compelling read. On a calmer note, it is moving, enlightening and, so very human. A Jonestown memoir it is not. An exhilerating adventure story with a heroine and a villain, it is.
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Summary: Great for Book Groups
Review: Our book group fell in love with Seductive Poison. Yes, it is sad, but I have never been so affected by a book before. My seventeen year old son could not put it down and called his girl friend to talk about it. The story and the message it conveys crosses all age boundaries.
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Summary: Haunting lessons await you
Review: I WAS hooked by Seductive Poison in Chapter ONE when I read the Walter de la Mare Poem SLEEPYHEAD " 'Come away, child and play, Light with the gnomies; In a mound, green and round, That's where their home is. Honey sweet, Curds to eat, Cream and frumenty, Shells and beads, Poppy seeds, You shall have plenty.' But as soon as I stooped in the dim moonlight To put on my stocking and my shoe, The sweet sweet singing died sadly away, And the light of the morning peeped through..." IN ALL our lives the lure of promise and hope for a better life must come to a close. For it is only child's play. If only Deborah and her mother could have known the calamity that awaited them further down their fairy tale path. There are lessons to be learned in this honest telling of a family pulled apart and almost destroyed. Deborah, with all her vital hopes and vibrant dreams betrayed shines through to the end--her mothers and fathers brave little warrior. Once lost--now found. God bless.
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Summary: The Oracle Speaks
Review: An intensely thrilling story that educates and satisfies. Had people only listened and believed when Deborah escaped from Jonestown and tried to warn the world. Can we ever learn? Will we ever listen to those who hold the key to the answers?
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Summary: Told from the inside out
Review: To really understand how something so seemingly good could go so terribly wrong--read this book! Seducitve Poison is a perceptive, well written and moving memoir told by a woman-child who, in her teens became one of Jim Jones confidants, and by her mid twenties finally broke away and blew the whistle.
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Summary: SUPER!
Review: I remember her in Yorkshire. She was a lovely, vivacious and lost teenager. I had heard later that she joined the Reverend Jim Jones. Seducitve Poison explains it all and more. I'm so pleased that Deborah actually made it and lived well enough to pull her life together and write this amazing story. It has received fabulous reviews in the London papers and on radio.
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Summary: A ten star A+ reveiw
Review: The most moving book I've read in decades. They don't get any better than this!
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Summary: We know about Safe Sex. This book teaches us: Safe Group
Review: Ms Layton spoke to my Psych class this week and you could have heard a pin drop in the auditorium. At least three hundred students were perched on the edge of their seats, entranced. It is a powerful, sad and wonderful book. I have also experienced the pull of super friendly groups who come to our campus to seduce us into joining. I am grateful and honored that Ms Layton wrote her story, came to our class and talks about her experiences to students like me. We've learned about safe sex but no one has been able to protect us against Cults. Deborah Layton's book does.
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Summary: An intimate & powerful story of Secrets, Shadows & Love
Review: I began this book believing it an intriging topic. Soon thereafter I realized how similar our lives were and how secrets within families can hurt the innocent recipients. I was moved beyond laughter into dismay and then tears as the authors story unwound. Beautifully executed memoir of courage and love. In many ways a poignant love story between a mother and daughter and the daughter's later wish to protect her little girl's future... An endeavour of enduring love.
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