THRILL KILL

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Summary: Captivating
Review: I 1st read this book a few years ago and fell in love with it. Wonderfully written but graphically portraited.

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Summary: "If he wants you, you're his--to the death."
Review: Mia Jorgenson is a talented, self-employed masseuse, working out of her coastal Oregon home. One day a paroled rapist (Donevan Raitt) is referred to her. From the beginning, the reader is aware of his intentions, so it's no major surprise when he starts stalking her and her clients and killing random women along the way in an attempt to build up his courage to combine "a little death with a big death" (rape and murder).

Though Mia's the main character in "Thrill Kill," I felt that Donevan was the more leading character here, even though he is the bad guy. I found him much more interesting than Mia, who didn't seem to have much of a life other being pretty and rubbing her troubled clients down. In fact, some of her clients seemed to have more depth to them than she did, such as Frannie Welch, the romance writer who happened to be Donevan's first rape victim back in high school.

The ending to "Thrill Kill" was ok (I really didn't have an opinion about it either way); but, overall, this is a good look into the obsessive mind of a rapist-turn-murderer. The front cover's a bit goofy with the Count Dracula-like face and ape-main arms, but it's still worth reading if you like psychological suspense/horror novels.

Consider yourself warned, though: There's quite a bit of sex and rape/violence in here. I found it a little odd that the rape scenes were much more graphic than the sex scenes, but, then again, this is horror, not romance.