All Fall Down
By Megan Hart
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In the midst of a chaotic midnight assembly, Sunshine is forced outside into the darkness. Holding a scrap of paper scrawled with a stranger's name and address, Sunny grasps the hands of her three small children and begins her escape.
Liesel Albright has dreamed of starting a family. She never bargained on inheriting one already in progress or one so deeply damaged. When nineteen-year-old Sunshine appears on the Albrights' doorstep claiming Liesel's husband, Chris, is her father, all they can think to offer is temporary shelter. The next day, they're stunned by the news that the Family of Superior Bliss, led by a charismatic zealot, has committed mass suicide. Sunny and her children haven't just left the compoundthey've been left behind.
Now, instead of a baby of her own, Liesel must play mother to the four survivors, while Chris retreats into guilt and denial. For Sunny, however, a lifetime of teachings is not easily unlearned. No matter how hard she tries to forget, an ominous catechism echoes in her mind, urging her to finish what the Family started.
Megan Hart
When she was in third grade, Megan Hart fell in love for the first time. Not with a boy (that would wait until fourth grade), but with a story. Homecoming by Ray Bradbury leaped out at her from the pages of a library book, and she tumbled head over heels. In the dark ages, before the days of photocopiers, the only way for her to keep a copy of this story was to copy it out by hand so she could read it over and over again. Something funny happened, though, as she carefully printed it on lined notebook paper. She made "improvements." At age twelve, reading Stephen King's The Stand for the first time one memorable summer, it occurred to her that people really did write books for a living. That's when she decided to become an author. Megan began writing short fantasy, horror and science fiction before graduating to novel-length romances. In 1998, now a stay-home mom, Megan took up writing in earnest, attending her first writing conference and getting her first request for a full manuscript. In 2002 she saw her first book in print, and she hasn't stopped since. She's published in almost every genre of romantic fiction, including historical, contemporary, romantic suspense, romantic comedy, futuristic, fantasy and perhaps most notably, erotic. She also writes non-erotic fantasy and science fiction, as well as continuing to occasionally dabble in horror. Megan's goal is to continue writing spicy, thrilling love stories with a twist. Her dream is to have a movie made of every one of her novels, starring herself as the heroine and Keanu Reeves as the hero. Megan lives in the deep, dark woods with her husband and two monsters...er...children. I love to hear from readers! Please contact me at: readinbed AT gmail DOT com
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Reviews for All Fall Down
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To date, this will be listed as my favorite Erica Spindler title. Plot turns to keep the reader guessing until the very last chapter! Excellent!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To date, this will be listed as my favorite Erica Spindler title. Plot turns to keep the reader guessing until the very last chapter! Excellent!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I think I have read this one...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To me this book was not as good as some of Spindler's previous novels, However I really enjoy the characters and their development. I liked the basic idea of the story, the climax and conclusion were well put together and very suspenseful. I don't know about anyone else who has read this book, but I knew who the killer was all along, which I sometimes don't like in a book. It was shocking that Mia turned the way she did, I was not expecting that. I felt bad for Ashley, that girl sure had been through alot. One thing I notice about Erica Spindler's writing style is that if someone is getting murdered, sexual assulted etc, she is very vivid in describing what is going on, in the form of sexual details and so forth...however when she writes a love scene between two characters who are falling in love, there is no detailed love scene at all. They start to kiss, head to the bedroom and it's over with. I don't like this. Can't she write a love scene?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Melanie May is a small-town cop with dreams of being bigger, and Connor Parks is an FBI profiler on his way down. They meet investigating the case of a local golden girl, and form a mutual respect. When Melanie discovers a fatal rash of apparent accidents happening to local men, she notices that all of them were abusers and batterers. Connor is the only one who believes her theory that they might have a serial killer on the loose. This book read like an extended, more intimate and detailed episode of "Criminal Minds." That is a compliment. What I was struck most by while reading this book was the authenticity of it. Spindler's characters are extremely real, even her heroine. Many mystery/thriller novels feature a protagonist who is so perfect and brilliant that they don't seem like real people. Even when they are 'flawed,' their flaws make them a better cop/prosecutor/investigator. Melanie's flaws actually impede her investigation at times, which is how things would be in real life. Also, in other novels, every lead pans out, every suspect talks, and every hunch is right. I understand that these are conventions to move the plot along, but the investigation in Spindler's novel takes months, almost a year, and while some parts of the book are almost a 'montage,' we are treated to a lot of the fits and starts of the reality of investigating a crime like this. Of course, all the plot points have to come to a cohesive conclusion at the end, but Spindler's conclusion does not feel hasty or forced, rather it's exhilarating. While I had figured out who the Dark Angel was by page 300, I was also surprised by a lot of the information revealed at the end. Also, I read this more than 500 page novel in less than two days. It was quite the page turner, but not one of those where the chapters are like a paragraph and most of the pages are blank space between chapters, so you feel like the whole thing could have been condensed into 120 pages had not there been a 'cliffhanger' after each paragraph. Another added bonus is the benefit of the story being told from many different perspectives, not just the main character and the killer. Melanie's sisters and other officers involved have chapters where we learn about their thoughts and motivations. Sometimes this is hard to keep track of or feels disjointed, but this author manages it quite smoothly. I recommend this book quite highly.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of her best. Great twist!