Everything She Ever Wanted

Manipulation, greed, murder. Ann Rule's books are starting to have a familiar ring to them. Small Sacrifices, Bitter Harvest, Too late to say goodbye, all have a selfish perpetrators who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Everyone is expendable, even children. She is a good writer vividly painting the characters and the setting. Lengthy descriptions of backgrounds and dialogs with Tom could have been cut. Ann made her point: Pat was manipulative and probably wanted him dead.

Ann Rule spoke about the differences between male and female sociopaths. When a woman is a sociopath, she is really rotten. This woman is a complete sociopath. Human beings are objects. She seems completely incapable of loving, caring, or empathy. She was recently arrested at age 70. She never stops!

Once again, Ann Rule surpasses herself in her quality of writing, and produces a story which takes one back to the time in the South when Pat Taylor lived. Her parents, families, and life in that part of America. A really strange lady, Pat Taylor. Whether it was a drug addiction which made her do the things she did nor not.

Poorly written. There are, for example, too many superfluous words. . One would think that the author was being paid by the word. Also it is poorly organized, thus the presentation is confusing. I suffered through about 20% on my Kindle. Finally, I gave up and deleted it.

True crime story about a crazy Southern belle. ( I can say that as I am from the south myself). This book was entertaining just from the sheer audacity of the woman's antics, let alone her actual crimes.

I love Ann Rule books. this one is especially creepy to me as I grew up in the area in which the book takes place, and know many of the people involved personally. Her treatment was steller, as always.

ann rule is always a detailed and 'facts only' writer. this is a chilling read of a woman who people just couldn't seem to say no to, even when she was doing the most horrid things. I feel sorry for the daughter who stood up to her and the family who protected her. read it. it's a good book.

Ann Rule's well researched true crime books
allow the reader to have a front seat through
the event, research and resolution. The books
are well written, easy to read while involving
the reader in every detail.

It's a good read, well written, and interesting. But not really interesting enough. The endings are bland. But the stories are true. I've read 3 now. I love the true life of a psychopath-but I don't like the endings.