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Summary: Great Book!!
Review: Ashley Blake's first novel is great! I couldn't put it down and hated to see it end. I can't wait to see more from this author. I'm also glad to see a part of my money going to Prevent Child Abuse America. This author is one to watch!!
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Summary: Wake-Up Call!!
Review: Ashley Blake, as a new author of fiction, may not be perfect, but his choice of revenge for the parents of these abused children was perfect---gruesome, and very much deserved!!! Congratulations to you, Ashley, for having the sense of right and wrong to create such a story. The subject of child-abuse is on TV every time we turn on the news. Many times it is the subject of prime-time as well as movies.
I am not an advocate for 'modern-day vigilante' tactics,
however, the lay-out of The Parent Killer, as fictional as it is, reflects the views of many who believe the government should use capital punishment on these sick, evil-minded people.
I truly believe, after reading Ashley's preface, that his heart is in the right place. He was touched very deeply by this child's death "at the hands of her very own parents." He chose to put his thoughts on paper in the form of a thriller. I highly recommend this book to those of you who feel child abusers should be given the maximum penalty of death, if proven guilty by law. This book is a wake-up call--a must read book. I give it 4 stars. Ashley has a bright future as a new upcoming novelist. I'm looking forward to reading his next book.
Another Published Writer
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Summary: An Impressive Debut
Review: From the root to the fruit, The Parent Killer is a solid read. Beginning with the first scene involving the little girl and her horribly abusive parents, Ashley carefully paints a picture of an unexamined aspect of life that, unfortunately, a lot of kids in both America and abroad experience. By the time you are introduced to all three of the central kid's parents and bare witness to their horrid actions, you'll be rooting for Mason as he embarks on his vigilante spree. I know I was, and I'm far from ashamed to admit it. The setting of North Louisiana is layed out and described very well. Supporting characters such as the town sherrif and the almost disturbing school principal help to bring the town of Sutter Springs to life. Go buy a copy; the book is well worth your money.
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Summary: An Impressive Debut
Review: From the root to the fruit, The Parent Killer is a solid read. Beginning with the first scene involving the little girl and her horribly abusive parents, Ashley carefully paints a picture of an unexamined aspect of life that, unfortunately, a lot of kids in both America and abroad experience. By the time you are introduced to all three of the central kid's parents and bare witness to their horrid actions, you'll be rooting for Mason as he embarks on his vigilante spree. I know I was, and I'm far from ashamed to admit it. The setting of North Louisiana is layed out and described very well. Supporting characters such as the town sherrif and the almost disturbing school principal help to bring the town of Sutter Springs to life. Go buy a copy; the book is well worth your money.
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Summary: A real eye-opener
Review: I didn't want to put it down! I was gripped from the first page. This book really opens your eyes to the dark world of child abuse. You hear about it, but you never see it from the kids' point of view. You don't really know what happens behind the closed doors. Ashley takes us to that world and lets us experience a little of what it might be like. I expect this author to go a long way.
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Summary: Images of everyday life captured perfectly! Eye-opening
Review: I was grabbed with the first sentence. Ashley Blake is a wonderful writer with a talent enviable. His writing is captured in the best possible way we can all relate to, but sometimes don't want to - the death of a little girl he never knew began this journey through lives so perfectly natural. Characters we love and hate seem to reach out and grab you in the gut.
A great read you will not put down. Read it. It will touch you.
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Summary: Amazing emotional rollercoaster ride
Review: When a book draws me in as strongly and completely as this one, takes me to the heart and feelings of the characters so completely, I am hooked on the author.
Blake has that wonderful ability to make you feel just what these innocent children are experiencing to the point where I would have to put the book down for a while. But I couldn't stay away long. The dark and compassionate Mason is a remarkable and very different kind of hero, and though this is a work of fiction, it makes me wish more of us had the heart and guts to take more action to help abused children escape the horror. (Of course, I found myself wishing that Mason had just used his great riches and taken the children and his love, Rachel, and disappeard, all living happily ever after, while the monster parents wondered for the rest of their lives ... but then there wouldn't have been much of a story, now would there.)
What an incredible debut ... I will be looking out for his next novel.
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Summary: Amateurish, Boring, Indulgent.
Review: With one possible exception this book is basically 'airport fiction', or 'vacation reading'. It grips you from the start holds you in place and concludes in a satisfactory 'everybody good lives, everybody bad dies'manner. If you like early Stephen King or Bentley Little, you will love this book. The exception I refer to is that although this book is a thriller it does not rely on some ghoul of zombi to terrify the reader. Instead it gives the reader chills that only extremely graffic accounts of child abuse can deliver. These scenes gave this reader nightmares and got me to root for the title charactor. Abe Lincoln said once 'those who like that sort of thing will like it those who don't will not.' I will most likely seek out Blake's future works as well.
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