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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Engrossing Read,
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This review is from: The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (Hardcover)
Liz Kendall's account of her seven year relationship with Ted Bundy, one of America's worst serial killers, is difficult to put down and offers a uniquely personal account of the man. Having read several books on Bundy that offered limited personal information, I was eager to read this book. I found the experience incredibly fulfilling. Kendall comes across as a highly sympathetic, flawed young woman. You truly get a feel for how agonizing her relationship with Bundy was. Bless her heart. Furthermore, you learn more about the nature of the man himself and it may surprise you. It's easy to paint a completely bleak, horrific picture of someone once they've committed such crimes and we forget that they are human beings themselves. We learn that Bundy was a tender lover, that he was great with children, that he was highly insecure, that he was a great cook, what his favorite beer was, that he was rarely ever violent with Kendall, and that he had a funny sense of humor. As you read about him, it's difficult to imagine that this person could have done what he did. It proves even now, years after his execution, that he still casts a spell over people. I have studied him extensively and cannot get a good grasp of what kind of person he truly was: a great murderous manipulator or a deeply flawed, tragic human being? What is genuine and what is not? I highly recommend this for anyone interested in Bundy.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another side to the story,
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This review is from: The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (Hardcover)
Just as interesting to me as Kendall's look at Bundy is her recounting of her involvement of the police investigations into Bundy's crimes. I got some idea what a surprise suspect Bundy was (clean cut, law student, no record, etc.) from Ann Rule's "The Stranger Beside Me," but Kendall was even more involved in the investigations...and more often ignored. There were so many instances when it seemed that if the police had only taken her more seriously, Bundy would have been stopped much sooner. It's frightening how often and how strongly Kendall and Bundy were drawn back to each other. I admire her for pulling her life together in the midst of such chaos.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A haunting, tormented memoir,
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This review is from: The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (Hardcover)
Ms. Kendall is not a professional mystery writer, and each of us knows how her story will end before we even pick the book up. Yet it's engrossing all the same, because her honest, unpolished prose puts us in her shoes. She's Everywoman, a flawed single mother with many insecurities, who falls in love with the Wrong Guy ("wrong" in an extraordinarily big way!) and we can all imagine ourselves in the same situation. The love, the guilt, the paranoia, the shame, the jealousy ... gulp. I just hope that wherever this lady is now, she and her daughter are happy and at peace.
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