Its all Bull (Rose Madder - Stephen King)

Member Name: bronwyn91

Product:	Rose Madder - Stephen King
Date:	23/10/02 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: good story, gripping

Disadvantages: the ending is crap

What can I say?? If I said what I thought of the book this would be a very boring opinion, yet another classic from the pen of Stephen King. I sat down to read this book for the second time three nights ago and from the first paragraph I was hooked.

The story is about a woman (Rose) who is seriously abused by her police officer husband (Norman), he has beaten her so badly that her kidneys are damaged; she has suffered a miscarriage and two broken ribs during the fourteen years that she has been married to him. She goes on to leave her husband taking with her his bank card. This is the chilling story of how he follows her halfway across America

It is also the story of the new life she makes for herself, her new job and her new relationship. A main focus in the book is a painting she acquires from a second hand shop which seems to come alive and eventually saves her life when her husband who is by then suffering from schizophrenia eventually catches up with her not caring who he has to kill to get there.

During the course of the book you will get to know and love many characters, from the friendly guy in eh bus depot (Peter Slovik) to Anna Stevenson who runs the shelter which Rose eventually finds. The people she works with the contracts she is offered and the man she starts her new life with.

A riveting read which will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Although the ending was rather a let down, it went on to describe Roses wedding the birth of her children.

I don?t feel there is much more can be said without ruining the story but I do guarantee it a worth while read to anyone who likes to be gripped by a story, it is one of Stephen King?s best efforts so far in my opinion.

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