OLD
FLAMES
JACK
KETCHUM
GENRE:
HORROR/THRILLER
SYNOPSIS
Burned
again. Men never treated Dora well. This latest cheated on her and
dumped her. The last decent guy she knew was her old high school
boyfriend, Jim. He'd said that he loved her. Maybe he did. So with
the help of the Flame Finders, Dora's found him again. Turns out he's
married with two kids. But Dora isn't about to let that stand in her
way.
Includes
the bonus novella A Right to Life.
MY
TAKE
4
STARS
Okay,
anyone who knows me knows I am a big fan of Ketchum's work—The Lost
being one of my favorites. With this book, Ketchum delivers two
captivating novellas, Old Flames and A Right to Life.
Old
Flames is a story of obsession that ends tragically. The female lead,
Dora, is a nut-job. It's obvious within the first few pages that
she's a bit unhinged and it only gets worse from there. Moral of the
story—if you run into an old flame, leave it in the past where it
belongs!
The
second story is A Right to Life. Honestly, at first, I didn't know if
I wanted to even read this one but decided to give it a chance
anyway. I am not a fan of reading about child horror and I thought
this is where this story would go, but it didn't. This is a gripping
story about a woman named Sara Foster. Right off, I felt bad for
Sara. She's in her early forties and finds herself pregnant by her
married lover. Some years ago, Sara's lost her only child Daniel when
he drown in a frozen lake. Now she's pregnant and is about to walk
into a clinic to abort her baby. Before she can even get to the
clinic doors, she's kidnapped by a couple who has big plans for her
and her unborn child.
What
Sara goes through at the hands of her captors is unnerving and made
me very squeamish at times. Up until the last couple of chapters, I
kept wondering where Ketchum was going to take this story. I had no
idea how the heck it would end. It was a very open novella that could
have had several possible endings. Thankfully, Ketchum went with the
ending I would have chosen. After feeling tense and hopeless during
most of the story, the ending left me with closure and a good
feeling.
Both
of the novellas contained in this book are pretty good stories. Very
well worth the read.
BUY
THIS BOOK
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