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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780345460721
ISBN number: 0345460723
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 512
Printing Date: April 29, 2003
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: April 29, 2003
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Studio: Ballantine Books
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It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return  address--an audiocassette recording of a horrifying,  soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a  childlike voice chanting: 'Bad love. Bad love.  Don't give me the bad love... '. For Alex  Delaware the tape is the very first intimation that he is  about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon  follow: disquieting laughter echoing over a phone  line that suddenly goes dead, a chilling act of  trespass and vandalism. He has become the target of a  carefully orchestrated campaign of vague threats  and intimidation quickly building to a crescendo as  harassment turns to terror, mischief to madness.  With the help of his friend LAPD detective Milo  Sturgis, Alex uncovers a series of violent deaths  that may follow a diabolical pattern. And if he fails  to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker's  mind games, Alex will be the subsequent to die. Taut,  penetrating, terrifying, Bad Love is  vintage Kellerman.
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I believe this book was written in 94, well thank God Kellerman has come a long way since then. I can't say I would or wouldn't recommend the book. It definitely wasn't great, it drolled on, much too detailed. Why in Gods name do I need to know that there were polka dots on the mans tie? Word fill - thats all it was- to make a fatter book I suppose - its a publication thing - word count and so on. Or he had a great idea for the book and had to have filler, cuz the general idea without it was too small for a grand novel. It was a good idea for a story, just way too drawn out, too much filler and crap mentioned that didn't have anything to do with the story or how it played out. I had it pegged who did what and why, so it was sort of predictable, but still good enough.
Kellerman has defintly come along way from this. If this is your very first Kellerman read, don't bother 'til later, after you've read others. Enjoy some of the others and you'll see how great Kellerman really is. Billy Straight and Monster were awesome. If you did read this as your very first and only Kellerman and then gave up on him - don't - keep going. Its worth it.
enjoy
heidi, avid reader
poe to patterson
iwannabaduck@yahoo.com
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A friend of mine gave me Bad Love to read when I spent the night at his house and was looking for a book. I started it, and took it home with me. After almost finishing it, I called him and said I really didn't like it, at which point he started laughing and told me both he and his wife thought it was horrible, and they gave it to me as a gag! They couldn't beleive I got as far as I did.
I like fiction, and even meaningless pop-fiction like Patterson, Stephen King, Grisham, etc., so I'm not a literary elitist. Bad Love is without a doubt the worst work I have ever read. I am shocked that people have given this garbage 5 stars. It's poorly written, has a bad plot, and....you know what....its not even worth going on. I am only writing to warn others. Avoid at all costs. You would be better off shaving your head with a cheese grater than putting yourself through Bad Love.
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I was actually disappointed with this book. I judged the book by the cover and I liked the overall appeal of the cover and the headlines, but as I read it went into so much detail that I would forget what I was reading. It took me about a good month to finish it but it wasnt worth reading 500-600 pages... lost count. But it was not worth waiting getting to the 30th chapter to wrap it up and get to the point. For me, there wasnt much suspense. Overall it kept me occupied and now I'm starting a new book.
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I really enjoyed this one. Dr. Alex Delaware - child psychologist/police
consultant - is in real peril and it's possible even his pal Detective
Milo Sturgis can't help him this time.
It starts with a package in the mail - a very disturbing cassette tape
that sets Alex on edge. But then, it becomes apparent that he's being
stalked and with therapists dropping like flies, Alex is afraid he may
be subsequent on the list! It's a real twisty-turny plot that kept me reading,
but there are so many names, I couldn't keep everyone straight. Alex and
his girlfriend Robin are really put through the ringer by this stalker
as the little harassing escapades get more and more intense - more and
more violent - more and more deadly.
There's a new addition to the cast - an adorable little stray dog named
Rover/Spike/Barry ... Love that dog! Hope he stays around. And it's
interesting to see just how well connected Milo is - he has friends
everywhere.
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While I haven't read many of Jonathan Kellerman's novels featuring Dr. Alex Delaware (a child psychologist who does consulting for the local police, and often ends up playing detective), this one is best.
The title, which I understand, after reading the book, might be a mistake, as it suggests themes that are not in the book. The book starts with Dr. Delaware being asked to evaluate two little girls, whose father is incarcerated for killing their mother, as the father wants visitation with his daughters, while the deceased mother's family opposes the idea. Then, he begins receiving very strange threats, including a tape of screaming and someone chanting about "bad love." As Delaware, and his police-liaison and friend, Milo Sturgis, investigate, they begin to uncover connections between an increasing number of unsolved murders, with a seminar, years earlier, being the connecting thread. And, the investigation indicates that Delaware is on the killer's hit-list.
The characters are well-rounded, the plot is complex, there are some genuine surprises, and, unlike Mr. Kellerman's "The Clinic," I did not feel that Delaware and Sturgis had suddenly come up with a few new, and crucial facts, right at the end, that enabled them to solve it. Jonathan Kellerman does go too far, in my opinion, in describing everyone and everything, in great detail, thus slowing down the pace, but the story, in "Bad Love," overcomes this.
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