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| Original Title: | A Darker Place |
| ISBN: | 0553578243 (ISBN13: 9780553578249) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Laurie R. King
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 477 pages Rating: 3.81 | 2517 Users | 187 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Darker Place |
| Author | : | Laurie R. King |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 477 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 1999 by Bantam Books (first published February 1999) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Suspense |
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A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty—alternative religious movements—have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. Until she learns of more than one hundred children living in the Change movement's Arizona compound.... Anne soon realizes that Change is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her back into their clutches...and to the razor's edge of danger.Rating Regarding Books A Darker Place
Ratings: 3.81 From 2517 Users | 187 ReviewsAssess Regarding Books A Darker Place
This is the novel I started to read after reading the Mary Russell series.(Which I loved) YIKES! This will be on my would-not-recommend-to-anyone list. I coudn't get very far into the book before it became disgustingly, sexually graphic. BIG ick! Wouldn't recommend any of Laurie's other books if they are like this.I had read this years ago and thought it was extraordinary. There was a day in February when I needed to set the alarm at 3:30 a.m. to take some meds in advance of a procedure, and then stay awake while the meds took effect. I needed something familiar to read, so I went to my shelf of Laurie King books and rediscovered this one. I finished it during my recovery from said procedure. I'm so glad I reread it. Since the time I first read it, I have taken up sketching, and it was wonderful to
Anne Waverly, a respected University professor who specializes in alternative religious movements, goes undercover again to learn more about a community called Change that has branches in Arizona, England, and Japan. She found it easy to get into the community when a young girl, who looked a lot like her dead daughter and who hadn't been speaking took an interest in her. The young girl spoke to her and even laughed. She learned about her brother Jason and found herself determined to keep these
Anne Waverly helps the FBI shut down bad cults by joining and living with them until she can see if the people are safe, especially the children. By profession she is a respected university professor, but Anne has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter and then she has helped the FBI so no one else has to suffer a loss as awful as hers. This assignment is especially hard for her because one 5 year old looks like her daughter at that age and the
The audio book A DARKER PLACE was over 14 hours long. I finish audio books quickly, because they are my companions for dish washing and laundry and on and on! I enjoyed the angle of this book; a teacher who goes undercover for the FBI investigating cults. The protagonist is extremely intelligent and complicated. I love characters who are introspective and questioning their life experiences. I really enjoyed this book and regret there was no sequel.
It's been a long time since a book has captured me as thoroughly as this one. The development of the main character was bumpy at first, then settled into a gentle swell. Her backstory evolved in a unique way, deepening as the plot grew more compelling, simultaneously enriching the plot. At times the raw foreboding was too much to endure; I would put the book down in order to get my bearings. It was the perfect book for my recovery from surgery-- just enough intellectual punch to tantalize, just
Fascinating and engrossing thus far.ADDENDUM: Marvelous; I especially love the snippets provided from Wakely's case notes and lectures which precede each chapter. Though I suspect I will never love or dissolve as easily into any book of hers as I did The Beekeeper's Apprentice (which world I found myself physically aching for after having finished it), I liked this quite a lot. Perhaps the only reason I haven't given it a full five stars is because the central working behind Change is one that
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