Book Review: Judgement Of Evil by Lori A. Lowthert

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Rebekah hadvowed to stop killing for love, but she finds herself unable to stop. Scottstill knows nothing about her secret life. She is happily attending graduateschool when the unthinkable happens--she is arrested and charged for one of themurders she committed last year. She spends a few nights in jail before shegoes in front of a judge, who sets the bail at an exorbitant $1 million. Herfather and Scott are able to raise the necessary money and get her out on bail.She kills again, even when she is out on bail. Rebekah has hired an excellentcriminal defense attorney, but she's afraid it won't be enough and she'll goback to jail.


REVIEW:
In Judgment Of Evil, Rebekah is put ontrial for a murder that she committed in the first book, Instrument Of Evil. Although Rebekah doesn't seem to be tooaffected by this (I expected from her apathetic personality), her husband isn'tconcerned by the fact that his bride is on trial for a murder. He seems just asapathetic as her, and unconcerned with the fact that she was in a hot tub withanother man while they were deep into their relationship. Her husband, Scott,seems to brush it off as if it were nothing.
After awhirlwind relationship, the newly wedded couple has to break the news to theirfamilies that they have eloped. Their time between meting family and the trailwas filled with tedious areas about shopping, and opening gifts. The passageswere a constant whirlwind of designer clothes and furniture, which seemed tostring into unnecessary detail.
Even though shevows to cut back on killing, she still does it from time to time, but theintermissions between them are filled with everyday living descriptions,without any real cause other than to write another sex scene between Rebekahand her husband. The potential of writing first person would give you an extraordinaryamount of room for internal conflict of fighting the inner demon, which I thinkthe writer fell flat on. It just seemed like there should have been a biggerinternal debate, instead we got pages of a normal happy life with a littlesentence drop every now and then of: "I should stop killing." And then back toPrada, IKEA, Burberry, and Fifth Avenue.
At first glanceI want to compare it roughly to American Psycho, but Patrick Bateman showed usan opinion of consumerism, materialism, and everything that is wrong withsociety. Rebekah's personality just doesn't seem to flesh out at all, leavingyou to wonder if her story would be plausible, and just like the first book, Iwas left arguing with myself whether or not I liked the story. The character doesfall loosely into the traits of a psychopath, leaving it debatable to thereader as to whether or not they find the story intriguing, and again I willhave to fall into the middle. 


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