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A review by obsidian_blue
In the Name of Love by Ann Rule
2.0
I have been meaning to read this book for years. I always stopped and started it though because the sample did not hold my interest. I have to say, the full book did not either. I think the main problem is that Rule ends up romanticizing Jerry and Susan Harris to the point that neither of them felt real. She also seemed to handwave a lot of people who did have critical things to say about Jerry and how he handled his business. That of course is not to say that he should have been murdered. I just thought that Rule usually does a better job of showing a fuller picture of the victims, murderers, and investigators in her other books than she did in this one.
"In the Name of Love" follows the story of Jerry Harris and how his wife Susan refused to stop investigating who/what was behind his disappearance and murder. Rule begins the book on how the two first met and how Jerry went about "love bombing" Susan. I have to say as other reviewers did, that I just did not like Jerry and felt indifferent towards Susan. She didn't seem to have any life or ambition outside of Jerry and most of the book kept going on about their looks (they were okay people, not super models) and how Jerry spoiled her and why Susan didn't work and wanted to be there for Jerry. It just does not sound like a life that I would ever want to live.
When the book moves to Jerry's businesses and his ideas and how he started to make money the flow slows down. Most of the businesses (outside of the plant and nightclubs) sounded iffy and I thought that Rule did way too much trying to make it seem as if others were doing illegal things and Jerry just had no idea.
When the book moves into Jerry's friends and associates and his constant issues with one of them, you pretty much know who murdered him and why.
After Jerry's disappearance the book slows down again. As a reader you are just ready for the book to get on so to speak.
From there the book becomes boring and painful. Reading about the murderers and their plans and the back and forth and dialogue did nothing for me.
The ending I thought was just a long slow slide of eh okay and just feeling glad that the book was over.
"In the Name of Love" follows the story of Jerry Harris and how his wife Susan refused to stop investigating who/what was behind his disappearance and murder. Rule begins the book on how the two first met and how Jerry went about "love bombing" Susan. I have to say as other reviewers did, that I just did not like Jerry and felt indifferent towards Susan. She didn't seem to have any life or ambition outside of Jerry and most of the book kept going on about their looks (they were okay people, not super models) and how Jerry spoiled her and why Susan didn't work and wanted to be there for Jerry. It just does not sound like a life that I would ever want to live.
When the book moves to Jerry's businesses and his ideas and how he started to make money the flow slows down. Most of the businesses (outside of the plant and nightclubs) sounded iffy and I thought that Rule did way too much trying to make it seem as if others were doing illegal things and Jerry just had no idea.
When the book moves into Jerry's friends and associates and his constant issues with one of them, you pretty much know who murdered him and why.
After Jerry's disappearance the book slows down again. As a reader you are just ready for the book to get on so to speak.
From there the book becomes boring and painful. Reading about the murderers and their plans and the back and forth and dialogue did nothing for me.
The ending I thought was just a long slow slide of eh okay and just feeling glad that the book was over.