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helent3 's review for:
The Stranger Beside Me
by Ann Rule
This was not good. I gave a star simply because I finished it. The publisher's "hook" of this story is the "Inside story" of Ted Bundy. Even after finishing all 550 pages of this novel I didn't see where they could advertise anything as being a more indepth or personal than your standard Bundy true crime novel. Rule worked at a call center with Bundy for a handful of months and then exchanged a handful of letters after he was arrested. To me, Rule banked on a passing acquaintanceship, and I think she realized this too. Towards the end of the book she delivers a less than convincing argument that she was never took any money from Bundy or used him- which if she truly felt that way, would she have spent time addressing it? I don't think so. Her style of writing is problematic as well. Choppy and incredibly repetitive. Would not recommend.