Bad Love

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Summary: Fiercly hypnotic....
Review: Electric... Pure terror... a jaw dropper, to say the least

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Summary: Bad Love, Great Novel!
Review: I don't usually read mysteries...What I've read before has been too easily solved (by me) about halfway thru. And if I can already guess whodunnit and why, then I lose interest.
Not so with this novel. The characters were beliveable. You get drawn into the story because you want to know what happens to them, not just what's written on the next page. Amazing ending.
Since reading this book, I have launched myself into all the Alex Delaware novels I can find. :)

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Summary: BAD LOVE; GOOD BOOK
Review: I have read a couple of Kellerman's books and I really liked this one. Kellerman has a knack for pulling you into the mystery until you too are rubbing your hand over your face in concentration and confusion like Milo. I was totally surprised at the ending. You were pulled from one murder to another with the only connection being the words "Bad Love". When Kellerman pulls all the loose ends together you still get a big suprise of who and why. I highly recommend this quick reading, enticing murder MYSTERY.

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Summary: BAD LOVE; GOOD BOOK
Review: I have read a couple of Kellerman's books and I really liked this one. Kellerman has a knack for pulling you into the mystery until you too are rubbing your hand over your face in concentration and confusion like Milo. I was totally surprised at the ending. You were pulled from one murder to another with the only connection being the words "Bad Love". When Kellerman pulls all the loose ends together you still get a big suprise of who and why. I highly recommend this quick reading, enticing murder MYSTERY.

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Summary: OK Book, but nothing I would recommend
Review: I just finished reading "Bad Love" by Jonathon Kellerman and I must say I wasn't all that impressed. It was the second book of his that I read and I liked the first one much better. This book just took too long for me to get interested in it. The last 100 pages I read pretty fast, but before that I kept debating whether or not to finish it because it was so slow and I couldn't keep the 300 different names seperated! I was so confused as to who they were talking about. The little dog was the best part of the book. The dog made me want to go out and buy a dog for myself! He was so sweet. But other than that, it wasn't that great of a book.

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Summary: The movie version never reached the theaters.
Review: I loved the book. I have loved all of Jon's books. I can hardly wait until the next one is published before I run out and buy it. He really understands how the world works and what makes people do what they do. I understand that this book was made into a movie. I saw it listed at Blockbuster accidentally. However, it never made it to the theaters. I don't know why not. Does anyone else know why it didn't get seen by millions of people like it should have been?

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Summary: Bad Love
Review: I think that Bad Love is by far the best book I have ever read so far. It is my first Jonathan Kellerman book and I guarantee it won't be my last. I can't wait to start reading another one of his books.

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Summary: "Murderous Plot"
Review: In the novel, Bad Love, the author, Jonathan Kellerman, has successfully created a haunting atmosphere with carefully determined, murderous plot. It begins when the main character, Alex Delaware, a well acclaimed child psychiatrist, receives an unusual package in the mail: " The postmark was four days old, recorded at the Terminal Annex. Curious, I took the tape into the living room, slipped it into the deck, and sank back onto the old leather couch. Click...A human voice. Screaming. Unbearable pain. A terrible incoherence that went on and on... Then a new voice. Soft. High-pitched. Nasal. A child's voice: Bad. Love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love (Kellerman, 12)." This is significant because the phrase "bad love", has been connected to a serious of mysterious deaths. Dr. Delaware dismisses the tape as a sick joke, `til he receives more disturbing threats. He begins to investigate what "bad love" is and discovers more than he wants to know. Alex's paranoia is credibly built into real and explicable fear as he delves deeper into the truth. And if Alex fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker's mind games, he will the next to die. Where it not for the story line, this book would have been terrible. But successfully, the author has persevered in creating the murderous plot.

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Summary: "Murderous Plot"
Review: In the novel, Bad Love, the author, Jonathan Kellerman, has successfully created a haunting atmosphere with carefully determined, murderous plot. It begins when the main character, Alex Delaware, a well acclaimed child psychiatrist, receives an unusual package in the mail: " The postmark was four days old, recorded at the Terminal Annex. Curious, I took the tape into the living room, slipped it into the deck, and sank back onto the old leather couch. Click...A human voice. Screaming. Unbearable pain. A terrible incoherence that went on and on... Then a new voice. Soft. High-pitched. Nasal. A child's voice: Bad. Love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love (Kellerman, 12)." This is significant because the phrase "bad love", has been connected to a serious of mysterious deaths. Dr. Delaware dismisses the tape as a sick joke, 'til he receives more disturbing threats. He begins to investigate what "bad love" is and discovers more than he wants to know. Alex's paranoia is credibly built into real and explicable fear as he delves deeper into the truth. And if Alex fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker's mind games, he will the next to die. Where it not for the story line, this book would have been terrible. But successfully, the author has persevered in creating the murderous plot.

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Summary: Murderous plot
Review: In this novel Alex Delaware himself is the object of a murderous plot. At the beginning the threats are vague and Delaware's fear somewhat ridiculous, but when the reader learns about a series of mysterious deaths the situation for Alex becomes more and more real. Alex's paranoia is very credibly turned into real and explicable fear. This time the author does not use dramatic irony, but the reader is kept in the dark up to a traumatizing finale. Whereas the action of the novel is getting faster by the page the peak of the climax is a bit too long. It reminds us of the endless sessions and explanations of Agatha Christie novels. Also, the denouement is not too logical, but as psychopaths are involved this does not disturb a lot. All in all, the book is pretty exciting and a good read. By the way, I did not miss the thorough descriptions of Alex's private problems in this books. On the contrary, their absence adds to the pleasure of reading the book.