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Kerri on
Kerri shares an inspirational Journey, from a lonely child, to an abandoned teenager, abused wife, to an independent woman. She was belittled and victimized by people whom she loved and a man who used her in his own vindictive games. By finding the warmth within her heart and watching those around her she transformed her own self built prison walls of self-loathing to self-discovery. We are not alone, she tells us. We are all deserving of the chance to be the children we were never allowed to be, and the wonderful, soul revitalizing adults we were meant to become.
- GenresMemoir
424 pages, Paperback
First published June 20, 2013
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August 5, 2015
I feel a little bad doing this review. Kerrie has obviously led a difficult life and has made the decision to share those experiences with others.
However, this is a really poorly written book. The grammar, punctuation and wording is some of the worst that I have ever read. It's really hard to slog through. Because of this, I will not be reading the second book from her.
The book isn't about Hell's Angels at all either. Other than the fact that her boyfriend/husband has a HA patch on his back, this book has nothing whatsoever to do with the club. It's about a woman who made poor decisions by continually going back to a man who clearly, from the start, made it known what his personality was like.
I won't be recommending this book to anyone, and will most likely just throw it in the garbage when I finish this last chapter.
However, this is a really poorly written book. The grammar, punctuation and wording is some of the worst that I have ever read. It's really hard to slog through. Because of this, I will not be reading the second book from her.
The book isn't about Hell's Angels at all either. Other than the fact that her boyfriend/husband has a HA patch on his back, this book has nothing whatsoever to do with the club. It's about a woman who made poor decisions by continually going back to a man who clearly, from the start, made it known what his personality was like.
I won't be recommending this book to anyone, and will most likely just throw it in the garbage when I finish this last chapter.
August 19, 2013
Kerri On is the debut novel in a trilogy by author Kerri Krysko. The courageous Ms. Krysko bears her heart and soul in this gut wrenching memoir. It is a tale of a lonely little girl who was abused by all who should have loved and nurtured her; bullying in its purest form.
Bullying in its most excruciatingly painful form...
The abuse set the stage for a lifetime of abuse. The pattern of history repeating itself while Ms. Krysko searched for that elusive feeling of belonging...of fitting in...of being loved...for prince charming to come and sweep her off her feet and take her away from all of her pain.
Like all beautiful girls who suffer from low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence, she was drawn to the bad boys. They always seem to start out as the answer to her dreams but ended up being nightmares. Kerri was always able to pull herself together and gather up the strength to leave these monsters. That was until she met "The Beast". He was charismatic and manipulative and knew exactly which buttons to push.
The Beast was the king of all the bad boys; he was a high ranking, “full patch” member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Gang. He dazzled her with his power, money & sexual prowess. People were afraid of him and gave him VIP treatment and soon she found that she was also receiving VIP treatment. But there was a very high price to pay...
The Beast was so diabolical that through his constant verbal and physical abuse he was able to beat her down psychologically and physically until she felt powerless.
For the sake of her children Kerri knew she had to find the strength to break free. She decided to start her own journey, to revisit and explore her past to figure out how she got where she is today, and to escape her nightmare.
I'm really looking forward to the second book in the trilogy...at the edge of my seat!
Bullying in its most excruciatingly painful form...
The abuse set the stage for a lifetime of abuse. The pattern of history repeating itself while Ms. Krysko searched for that elusive feeling of belonging...of fitting in...of being loved...for prince charming to come and sweep her off her feet and take her away from all of her pain.
Like all beautiful girls who suffer from low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence, she was drawn to the bad boys. They always seem to start out as the answer to her dreams but ended up being nightmares. Kerri was always able to pull herself together and gather up the strength to leave these monsters. That was until she met "The Beast". He was charismatic and manipulative and knew exactly which buttons to push.
The Beast was the king of all the bad boys; he was a high ranking, “full patch” member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Gang. He dazzled her with his power, money & sexual prowess. People were afraid of him and gave him VIP treatment and soon she found that she was also receiving VIP treatment. But there was a very high price to pay...
The Beast was so diabolical that through his constant verbal and physical abuse he was able to beat her down psychologically and physically until she felt powerless.
For the sake of her children Kerri knew she had to find the strength to break free. She decided to start her own journey, to revisit and explore her past to figure out how she got where she is today, and to escape her nightmare.
I'm really looking forward to the second book in the trilogy...at the edge of my seat!
January 12, 2015
SO. MANY. TYPOS.
I tried to like this book. I really did. However I was not prepared for the complete lack of editing - the book reads like a high school student tried to publish a memoir without passing any of their English classes. There does no appear to be any editing or proofreading whatsoever, to the point that I finally stopped reading about 25% of the way through because it was so jarring and frustrating to read a book that poorly written. Comments for this book on amazon sum up my frustration with attempting to read it.
Out of the hundreds of books I have read in my life, I have stopped reading maybe a dozen. This was one of them.
The silver lining is that I got this book secondhand, free from a relative, and thus lost no money on it.
I tried to like this book. I really did. However I was not prepared for the complete lack of editing - the book reads like a high school student tried to publish a memoir without passing any of their English classes. There does no appear to be any editing or proofreading whatsoever, to the point that I finally stopped reading about 25% of the way through because it was so jarring and frustrating to read a book that poorly written. Comments for this book on amazon sum up my frustration with attempting to read it.
Out of the hundreds of books I have read in my life, I have stopped reading maybe a dozen. This was one of them.
The silver lining is that I got this book secondhand, free from a relative, and thus lost no money on it.
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October 17, 2013I don't rate memoirs. People lives are not to be judged, by any means; however, I want to say that there were moments which brought me to tears, reading as this beautiful woman wrote about her journey. She is truly courageous, and I commend her for bravery in such tremendous situations.
November 15, 2019
This chick drove me BANANAS!!!
The whole book had me frustrated from start to finish.
The writing is atrocious and the editor did and awful job.
Her perspective is that she is an amazing human who conquered life despite the entire world being against her. Yes, she went through some rough stuff and I’m sure it was horrible.
I just feel like almost all of it could have been avoided.
She comes off as a materialistic drama queen looking for a pat on the back for surviving crap she willingly walked into full well knowing they were bad ideas.
Do not waste your time on this book.
Reasons NOT to marry someone in the order they were revealed....
1. Your first interaction with them is that they call you a whore and pull out some of your hair.
2. He takes your roommate to a party where she is raped by one of his friends and he doesn’t care.
3. He cheats on you.
4. His friends beat up one of your girlfriends (a different one she put in harm’s way) and he feels no remorse.
5. He kicked the crap out of your fiancée.
6. He tortured your ex and tossed him out of a moving car over a drug money dispute.
7. He emotionally and physically abuses you.
All of these happened either in the early stages of dating or while they weren’t even dating at all.
Every single time something happened she would describe his behaviour as “disgusting” or “gross” and then half a page later rationalize the behaviour as being protective or expressing his love for her.
But by all means please marry this man and then complain to me about how hard your life with him was.
WTF?!
I think the biggest rageboner I got from this book was how she portrays herself as the mother of all mothers. A woman who drops her son off with his grandmother for nearly a year so she could do “the one thing every mother should do, not be a selfish individual and subject an innocent child to a world where they should not be.”
Translation: She wanted to do meth for 11 months and not have to take care of her kid while she did it. It’s great that she did take the kid to her mother while she got all kinds of crazy on meth but seems extremely selfish and not exactly mother of the year material. Keeping your kids around someone like this for “bling” and to have everyone “worship” you because of who you know seems like a dick move.
Side note on the meth times….this was before she even met the douche that she ends up marrying.
I gave this book 1 star out of pity for her family and friends that she talks trash about throughout the whole book.
The whole book had me frustrated from start to finish.
The writing is atrocious and the editor did and awful job.
Her perspective is that she is an amazing human who conquered life despite the entire world being against her. Yes, she went through some rough stuff and I’m sure it was horrible.
I just feel like almost all of it could have been avoided.
She comes off as a materialistic drama queen looking for a pat on the back for surviving crap she willingly walked into full well knowing they were bad ideas.
Do not waste your time on this book.
Reasons NOT to marry someone in the order they were revealed....
1. Your first interaction with them is that they call you a whore and pull out some of your hair.
2. He takes your roommate to a party where she is raped by one of his friends and he doesn’t care.
3. He cheats on you.
4. His friends beat up one of your girlfriends (a different one she put in harm’s way) and he feels no remorse.
5. He kicked the crap out of your fiancée.
6. He tortured your ex and tossed him out of a moving car over a drug money dispute.
7. He emotionally and physically abuses you.
All of these happened either in the early stages of dating or while they weren’t even dating at all.
Every single time something happened she would describe his behaviour as “disgusting” or “gross” and then half a page later rationalize the behaviour as being protective or expressing his love for her.
But by all means please marry this man and then complain to me about how hard your life with him was.
WTF?!
I think the biggest rageboner I got from this book was how she portrays herself as the mother of all mothers. A woman who drops her son off with his grandmother for nearly a year so she could do “the one thing every mother should do, not be a selfish individual and subject an innocent child to a world where they should not be.”
Translation: She wanted to do meth for 11 months and not have to take care of her kid while she did it. It’s great that she did take the kid to her mother while she got all kinds of crazy on meth but seems extremely selfish and not exactly mother of the year material. Keeping your kids around someone like this for “bling” and to have everyone “worship” you because of who you know seems like a dick move.
Side note on the meth times….this was before she even met the douche that she ends up marrying.
I gave this book 1 star out of pity for her family and friends that she talks trash about throughout the whole book.
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August 28, 2016
Complete waste of time. Thank god I didn't purchase this book and borrowed it from
The library. Editing sucks - I would have to make sure I'm on the next page and didn't skip a few. This girl did everything to her self she should have been smarter that way maybe she wouldn't have got played, abused or what ever else she claims. Honestly this was a garbage book. Don't waste your money on this garbage. I will not be reading the second garbage to this.
The library. Editing sucks - I would have to make sure I'm on the next page and didn't skip a few. This girl did everything to her self she should have been smarter that way maybe she wouldn't have got played, abused or what ever else she claims. Honestly this was a garbage book. Don't waste your money on this garbage. I will not be reading the second garbage to this.
July 3, 2019
I didnt finish. I wanted to love this book and it's taken over a year to try and finish it and I am finally putting it on my read list as incomplete. Was very boring, despite how good it sounds. Maybe this kind of memoir is just not for me.
June 25, 2018
This was just not good. The book is filled with extremely poor grammar and her story is very repetitive.
June 20, 2021
Yikes. Book is poorly written. And....sorry lady but when you play stupid games you win stupid prizes. I feel like this book was more of a cry for attention than anything else. Waste of my time.
April 6, 2024
This book was ok, it’s Kerri’s story so it’s sad for her. I thought it was more a story about HA’s but her bf was a member so that’s how it’s connected.
April 13, 2020
Poorly written.... makes it a slog.
May 27, 2015
Not the best editor used, but I liked reading about her challenges
January 13, 2017
EXCELLENT BOOK, HOPE SHE IS STILL DOING WELL
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