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Saving Grace: The True Story of a Mother-to-be, a Deranged Attacker, and an Unborn Child
by Sarah Brady, Patrick Crowley, Eric Deters
Product Group: Book
Publisher: New Horizon Press (2006-11-10)
ISBN: 088282287X
EAN: 9780882822877
Dewy Decimal #: 364.1523092
Hardcover: 304 pages
SKU: 07090301
Condition: New As issued no jac
Comments: New book. Trade paperback with no marks or creases. Appears unread. Beautiful book.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Nine months into her pregnancy, Sarah Brady receives a phone call out of the blue from another expectant mother named "Sarah Brody." The woman informs her they have both signed up for the same gift registry, and due to their similar names gifts meant for Brady have mistakenly been sent to Brody's address. What seems to be an amusing mix-up is, in fact, a deadly trap. When Brady stops by the woman's apartment to retrieve the gifts, she is instead confronted by a knife-wielding Kate Smith. Brady instinctively fights back, and the struggle for the knife becomes a fight to the death — leaving police to determine whether the attack was an act of self-defense or murder.
One of only three people in the United States to survive an attempted fetus theft, Sarah Brady tells her incredible story for the first time in Saving Grace.
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Customer Reviews
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Interesting story...terrible writing. My 4-year-old cousin could have written better!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-07-05
I have never read a book that was so poorly written! The story is intriguing but it is almost painful to read because of the mass amount of typos. The authors reiterate that same things so many times that I feel like I'm reading the same page over and over again. They go into in-depth descriptions of cities and baby registries that are not only incredibly boring but also lack any relevance to that actual story. I kept muddling through thinking that it had to get better and when I got to the end I really wondered why I had wasted my time.
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Not very well written...extremely slow book
Rating (1)
Date: 2008-06-15
Honestly, I feel this is probably one of the worst true crime books I've ever purchased. It was hard to finish the book because it was slow moving, repetitive, and not very interesting. Too much information was repetitive. The book could have been written in 100 pages or less and still have accomplished the same story. Don't buy!
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Unbelievable
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-09-05
1 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
The world is full of sick people, but this takes it to a new level.
Thinking somebody really planned this, it's unbelievable.
It made me feel that I can overcome anything and everything.
Thanks
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Wow, who published this??
Rating (1)
Date: 2007-04-20
6 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
In the third person, an exhausive explanation of gift registries, and typos...my goodness, if I hadn't had it for a book club selection, I wouldn't have gotten past the first couple of chapters!
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Horrible--could not even read the entire book.
Rating (1)
Date: 2007-03-22
12 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is so poorly written and contains many typos, formatting issues,
inaccuracies, and misinformation throughout that I hate to give it even one star.
Words in the middle of sentences are separated by hyphens on many pages.
On Page 267, it mistakenly refers to Sarah (the victim) as Katie (the
perpetrator) when referring to Katie's family's belief that Katie had made several payments to Sarah to adopt her child.
On Page 293, the authors cite a similar case of Lisa Montgomery, who in 2003 murdered a young expectant mother and performed a crude C-section to kidnap her baby. The authors incorrectly state the baby was a boy. This case received massive publicity, yet the authors couldn't even get the baby's gender correct.
Sarah grew up in a trailer park. This fact is pointed out over and over to the point of redundancy. Then to insult our intelligence, one of the authors admonishes the reader with the following homily: "The words "trailer park" trash are part of our common language. In reality, it is unfair to stigmatize anyone who must or chooses to live in a trailer or trailer park. The labeling is cruel and unfair." Duh!!!
These are just a few examples.
The flow of the story is so bad that I have to wonder: Did each of the
authors write a portion of the book in the course of a day or two and then compile it all together with one another to create this mess?
My heart goes out to Sarah. I cannot imagine the ordeal she has suffered,
but I think her story could have been condensed into a feature story in a
good magazine with a decent editor instead of dragged on for over 300
pages.
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