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Tell Everything
The day Pauline sees Ramona's mug shot in the paper, she knows she's going to be called upon to relive the darkest period of her life. Charged with murder, Ramona and her husband, Jim, have also been accused of sexually abusing female victims for years in their home. And when the police discover a stash of scripts for disturbing plays performed years earlier by Pauline, Ramona, and Jim, Pauline becomes a key witness in the trial.
Tell Everything follows Pauline as she prepares for her testimony, and in the process reawakens memories that she has buried since she was a teenager. But the most difficult challenge she faces is keeping her relationship with her partner, Alex, in tact as he learns for the first time what terrible secrets lurk in her past. Tell Everything is a gripping, agonizingly vivid work from a gifted author who is not afraid to take her reader into the darkest regions of the human soul.
Tell Everything follows Pauline as she prepares for her testimony, and in the process reawakens memories that she has buried since she was a teenager. But the most difficult challenge she faces is keeping her relationship with her partner, Alex, in tact as he learns for the first time what terrible secrets lurk in her past. Tell Everything is a gripping, agonizingly vivid work from a gifted author who is not afraid to take her reader into the darkest regions of the human soul.
216 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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June 19, 2016
Great reading. Another great book by this author. Well done.
August 26, 2017
To put it simply, this book is messed up.
Pauline/Peck has serious issues. She hides behind the fact that her mother left when she was young, and to try and relate to her, she reads the same kind of true crime, murder stories her mother did. Probably to try and relate to her on some level. And, since she's lacking a female role model, she bonds with Ramona, who does some unspeakable things to Peck, which she has to relive at Ramona's trial. Ramona who is disturbed in her own right, is on trial for killing her husband James.
Peck is into some seriously disturbing things, like putting herslelf in a kidnappers box, with a photo lens she rigged up. She also tries to get her "husband" Alex, who's an intern to play doctor with her, and pretend to do surgery on her.
Alex seems like a genuine enough character, but he gets tarnished by Peck's brokenness.
The whole story felt like the author was trying way too hard to add some disturbing element to the whole "starving artist" archetype. She got the disturbing part right, and the starving artist part fell to the wayside.
I kept reading this because I thought there might be some aha moment when I could finally figure out what the whole point was, but that moment didn't come. Maybe the point was to illustrate how broken people are?
Whatever the point, this book felt like a bizarre waste of time.
Pauline/Peck has serious issues. She hides behind the fact that her mother left when she was young, and to try and relate to her, she reads the same kind of true crime, murder stories her mother did. Probably to try and relate to her on some level. And, since she's lacking a female role model, she bonds with Ramona, who does some unspeakable things to Peck, which she has to relive at Ramona's trial. Ramona who is disturbed in her own right, is on trial for killing her husband James.
Peck is into some seriously disturbing things, like putting herslelf in a kidnappers box, with a photo lens she rigged up. She also tries to get her "husband" Alex, who's an intern to play doctor with her, and pretend to do surgery on her.
Alex seems like a genuine enough character, but he gets tarnished by Peck's brokenness.
The whole story felt like the author was trying way too hard to add some disturbing element to the whole "starving artist" archetype. She got the disturbing part right, and the starving artist part fell to the wayside.
I kept reading this because I thought there might be some aha moment when I could finally figure out what the whole point was, but that moment didn't come. Maybe the point was to illustrate how broken people are?
Whatever the point, this book felt like a bizarre waste of time.
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