Tell Me That You Like It

by Terre J. Sadler

"This was his art - painting with her blood." Young Maggie Harris has no delusions regarding the existence of monsters. She knows they are real. She knows they sneak up and grab you before you know they are there. She knows because it happened to her. After five years of captivity, Maggie is returned. Her family and the entire community are then plunged into the nightmare world of child prostitution and pornography. As investigators struggle to apprehend those responsible, they follow the trail of a madman, who leaves grisly clues and bodies in his wake. Can Maggie ever really be free?

Paperback

First published April 26, 2006

Reviews

[Linda Strong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maggie Harris is just 18 years old when she is returned to her parents after 5 years of captivity in the contemptible world of child pornography. She also has a role in servicing the clients of a particularly evil man, Jonathan Fiske.

Jonathan Friske has a special fondness for Maggie, and when Maggie is suddenly whisked away by another employee, he is absolutely livid. He is a human monster and will do whatever it takes to get her back.

Her escape was quite dramatic and the tension is like a thermometer in the Arizona desert ..it just keeps rising.

The investigators are following a madman, a man with no ethical and moral principles . And a man who doesn't care who he has to kill to get back what's his.

I hate saying I "enjoyed" this book ... because of the subject manner. But the book is written with a nod toward something that could be in the headlines today. It was handled realistically.

The characters come across as very believable. Maggie is an adult in a child's body ... not trusting anyone, even her mother or the police. She has no innocence left. Her mother is so happy to have her little girl home, but she's never going to be that 8-year-old who was taken from their backyard. And mom is willing to do what she needs to do in order to protect her daughter from a vicious killer.

[Paige Dearth · Rating 5 out of 5]

After reading the first couple of pages, I knew I had found my next read! I finished it in a couple of days. It was well done and I thoroughly enjoyed the novel.

Paige Dearth, Author
Believe Like A Child

[Michele Hodder · Rating 2 out of 5]

While the story and ideas are great, what made this book fall down was the execution. The conversations were written very poorly - people said things that they would never say in a real-life sitaution. Would a 13- year old girl say "I will tell you" or "I wll not do that" constantly? No - it would be "I'll tell you" or "I won't do that." It came across as very unrealistic and kept pulling me out of the story.

[Monk · Rating 4 out of 5]

A taut page-turner. The reader is brought into this dark, squalid world of child sex slavery, but a bid for redemption by one of the gang leads to a child being let free, until the mad genius leader and chief pervert wants her back, and then it is a race between good and evil, with evil holding all the cards.