Mine
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Average rating3.3
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Ratings4
Average rating3.3
When her baby is stolen from the hospital, nothing will stop her from getting him back.
Laura Clayborne is a successful journalist, the wife of a stockbroker with her own BMW and a house in the right Atlanta suburb. Her biological clock ticking down, her marriage foundering, Laura hopes that her newborn son, David, will make her life everything it ought to be.
Mary Terrell, aka Mary Terror, is a scarred and battered survivor of the radical '60s. Once a member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade, Mary now lives in a hallucinatory world of memories, guns, and above all, murderous rage. Prompted by a personals ad in Rolling Stone, she becomes convinced that the former leader of the Brigade, the man she knows as Lord Jack, is commanding her to bring him the child she was carrying when her life and the lives of the other Storm Front radicals exploded in a bloody shootout with the FBI.
Mary Terror steals Laura's baby from a hospital room, and heads west on her journey of the damned: clutching an innocent child to her side, killing anyone who gets in her way, searching for Lord Jack. Stunned, weakened, Laura realizes that the woman who stole her baby is getting away with it, and sets out to hunt her down. What Laura doesn't know is that the closer she gets to Mary Terror the more she will have to learn to think and act like her—even to kill like her....
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Action-packed thriller that was just good enough to keep me invested in the final outcome.
However, the 60's radical vs. Yuppie 80's materialist felt dated to me, at least the way it was written here. Also, McCammon, who I've come to know and love, dragged out the path to the final showdown more than necessary.
I just didn't have enough interest in Mary or Laura to enjoy so many action sequences. I do appreciate that all the fighting and running around involved female characters. You didn't see that quite as often around the time this was written.
Mary Terror was an interesting concept but not believable or inspiring of fear or empathy. Some of that time spent on dragged out action scenes could have been better spent developing these characters. Also, Laura's “sisterhood” with Didi didn't feel earned.
I know it's just a thriller with no serious thought required, but McCammon set my expectations high with books like Gone South and this didn't work as well for me.
