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Summary: A Terrific Read
Review: A real page turner! I couldn't put it down. A gripping tale, made all the more intense by knowing that it was based on a true story. Anders entertains, while opening our eyes to the very real nightmare that many women face.
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Summary: Drivel. Make that smarmy, plodding drivel.
Review: A woman-in-jeopardy novel which left me rooting AGAINST the main character. She was so unceasingly incompetent, feeble and neurotic. Not to mention her kooky menagerie of friends dropped in for subtle contrast to the cretinous, fascist mustache-twisting husband. The "heroine" was so moronic and reactive that I would have felt ASHAMED to sympathize. And her laundry list of problems became almost comical. She just suffered and suffered until the big, strong men stepped in and made her life happily middle-class again. Didn't we move past the hand-wringing, half-witted heroine with the Bronte sisters? This whiny automaton comes equipped with a sensitive, middle-class amour and a squeaky tyke (who speaks like a grade-z sitcom) and a slick pitchable problem that will get solved in the most deliberate, numbing manner conceivable. Illogical plot twists and clunky dialogue abound. As a real person who's triumphed over a wide range of misfortune, I was infuriated by the unimaginative incompetence of the heroine's. If you want a terrifying novel about treacherous marriages read Tom Savage's pulpy-but-terrific PRECIPICE or Shreve's superb THE WEIGHT OF WATER.
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Summary: Beware the life you choose. . .
Review: ANOTHER LIFE is fiction, but based on a true story of a woman's escape from the terror of a danger-filled marriage. I drew on my life experience for my ninth novel, although this is not my own story. We read about women like Sharon Moore in tragic headlines too often, perhaps because we don't want to become involved until it is far too late. Sharon, however, had the guts and savvy to escape, to create another identity where she thought she and her child would be safe. But someone knew where she was, and WHO she was. Or did they? Was that stalking presence from her old life? Or was it from her new life? A watcher in the shadows is doubly frightening when he (or she?) has no face, no name, and leaves no clues. Sharon can never go home to the life she left behind, but a terrible medical emergency makes it impossible for her to stay in the world she has chosen. And, when you cannot run, you must stay and fight. Even though she is facing an unseen enemy, Sharon Moore does fight back. This book actually frightened me when I worked on it late at night. I hope readers will find it as compelling!
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Summary: Another Life is an excellent read
Review: Donna Anders takes the reader on a suspensful journey with her latest page turner, ANOTHER LIFE. She keeps the reader guessing right up until the end. Anders' backdrop of Seattle and its spooky underground adds to the excitement. We look forward to Donna Anders' next mystery masterpiece.
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Summary: Bremerton Sun Review
Review: ESCAPE REALITY WITH "ANOTHER LIFE" Can a San Francisco woman escape an abusive husband who's plotting to kill her and create a new life by relocating to Seattle with her son? Thats what you wait nearly 320 pages of Seattle writer Donna Anders' new book "Another Life," to find out. It's not high art, but "Another Life" is a good read that keeps you interested enough to care what happens to Sharon Moore and her son David. At first, you figure that Moore is a goner. She seems totally paralyzed by her husband's physical threats and mind games. She helplessly watches as he constructs a fairy tale about her mental instability that he tells to their neighbors, friends, co-workers and doctors. By the time he's done, they're all convinced he is a loving, devoted husband whose wife is quickly losing touch with reality and her sanity. Divorce is an option, but not if she ever hopes to have custody of her son. There's the rub -- Paul will never allow her to leave with David. And Sharon is not willing to leave David with Paul, who views his son more as a trophy than as a child. As Paul becomes more sadistic, Sharon's one close friend, Lexi, fears for Sharon's life. But only when Sharon learns that Paul is plotting to kill her and start a new life with another woman is she finally driven to take action. It all might seem so melodramatic, if not for the fact that Anders draws this from real life. There are such characters as Paul out there, sociopaths who can hide their warped personalities from casual acquaintances. And there are women in abusive situations, especially women who are being psychologically abused, who often become paralyzed in their situations. But escape isn't easy, as Sharon and David find out. Knowing that Paul will track them as long as he believes they're alive, Sharon stages an auto accident in hopes that she and David will be presumed dead. Then Sharon faces the task of finding a new identity she can use to obtain a new Social Security number, a new driver's license, and ultimately, a new chance. The trouble is, she fits her new identity too well. As Sharon settles into her new life in Seattle, she discovers problems with her new identity that become just as threatening as the problems she escaped. Anders' development of Sharon's character is stronger than her method of resolving Sharon's problems. But "Another Life" is a good change of pace if you've just plowed through a lengthy biography or the paperback version of Ken Starr's report. Just turn those pages and escape with Sharon Moore. -- Jeff Brody, Sun Staff
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Summary: Liked the book but...
Review: I did like this book - I read it in one sitting - however, I find it difficult to believe that in this day and time the police in 1 city (not to mention 2!) would be as condescending to a domestic crime victim as they are in this book and would not take wife/child abuse accusations seriously. Other than that this book is a suspenseful, fast read, with the reader wondering if Sharon is being stalked or is it the newly resurrected Janice Young?
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Summary: Thrilling and Suspensful!
Review: I have read both of Donna Ander's other thrillers, "The Flower Man" and "Dead Silence" but this book is far better. Even though they were both suspensful, they were not as well written as this book. This book is so superior in it's writing that it is hard to believe the same author created it. The characters are well developed and the protagonist, Sharon, is so loveable. I found myself rooting for her and almost crying out when I thought her evil husband, Paul, would catch her at something she was not supposed to be doing! This was an intense read and I could not put it down! I never wanted it to end and the characters became as real people to me. That is a sign of a great book. It keeps you on the edge of your seat and it is worth buying! I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Thrilling and Suspensful!
Review: I have read both of Donna Ander's other thrillers, "The Flower Man" and "Dead Silence" but this book is far better. Even though they were both suspensful, they were not as well written as this book. This book is so superior in it's writing that it is hard to believe the same author created it. The characters are well developed and the protagonist, Sharon, is so loveable. I found myself rooting for her and almost crying out when I thought her evil husband, Paul, would catch her at something she was not supposed to be doing! This was an intense read and I could not put it down! I never wanted it to end and the characters became as real people to me. That is a sign of a great book. It keeps you on the edge of your seat and it is worth buying! I highly recommend it!
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Summary: A great summer suspense book!
Review: I just finished Donna Ander's *Another Life* and really enjoyed it as I did her last book, The *Flower Man.* Her women are strong characters who are like most of us moms when our children are threatened. And I like her Northwest locales. I must say I was stunned to see the vicious review submitted by the last person here--on July 4. It sounds as though the person has some kind of an issue with Donna Anders because SnakeOil certainly isn't accurate about the book. Too bad. I hope Anders writes more books--in time for my next vacation. Really a scary book. I loved it!
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Summary: Another life was a great book
Review: i loved the book Another Life by Donna Anders. The book kept my attention the whole way through. Ive read it twice already and i still love the book. I just can't believe the things that Sharon had to go through to keep herself and her son safe from her husband. I would have thought that the officers would have helped her out but they always believed her husband. Then when she moved it left me on the edge of my seen when she started to get stalked again, only she didn't know if it was her husband who had found her or someone from Janice Youngs former life. I would have neer guessed it was the person it turned out to be.
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