Helpful Score: 4
I read the "Deep End of the Ocean", and I must admit, it didn't touch me, as this book did. "The Most Wanted" is a title that fits the book for many reasons, but mostly because this book is all about being wanted: as a daughter, a criminal, a lover, a mother, and a wife. To where you feel the most wanted, and who you feel the most wanted with is where you'll be the happiest. The main message is if you're not the most wanted, find somewhere you will be.
Helpful Score: 3
Surprisingly good. The story of a teenager who foolishly marries a prisoner and the attorney who becomes her mentor. This book was paced well and the characters were written well.
Helpful Score: 2
From the back cover: Arley Mowbray is young, smart and lonely. Very lonely. And then she strikes up a correspondence with a prison inmate--and, under the spell of his poetic, seductive letters, falls helplessly, stubbornly in love.
This is a fantastic story--a real page turner.
This is a fantastic story--a real page turner.
Helpful Score: 2
Great book ! Fast read, makes you want to finish !
Helpful Score: 1
A young, smart and lonely, very lonely woman stikes up a correspondence with a prison inmate. She hires Annie Singer, a tough Texas attorney to help unite Arley with her beloved. Annie does - against her better judgment. Good one!
Helpful Score: 1
About a woman who corresponds with a prison inmate and what happens when he's released.
Helpful Score: 1
Arley Mowbray is young, smart, and lonely, very lonley. And then she strikes up a correspondence with a prison inmate - and, under the spell of his poetic, seductive letters, falls helplessly stubbornly in love...........
Different twist on a love story, but still a love story..absorbing, compelling, outstanding writing.
Helpful Score: 1
Good. Read along time ago.
If you want to read a great novel then this is the one for you!
A naive teenage girl in south Texas, Arlie falls in love with her prison pen pal--a handsome and charming young felon who romances her through his letters. After a love affair that defies convention, they marry and have a child--all while the father is still in prison. But when he escapes to claim his family, what started as a passionate romance turns into a terrifying ordeal of obsession and desire. Arlie's only hope is a fiercely dedicated public aid lawyer who is more of a mother figure than Arlie has ever known, and the only one who can avert impending disaster.
I really enjoyed this book. I didn't want to put it down! The plot is fresh and keeps my attention. I highly recommend it!
In the 1990s, a teenager from a small Texas town and a disfunctional family, becomes the bride of a charming, psychopathic killer, a prisoner she met through correspondence. The bride wrote poems for him about what her life might be but it really becomes a nightmare. She married him against the wishes of all around her and became pregnant. Consequently, her mother kicks her out of their home. Meanwhile, her husband, Dillon Thomas LeGrande, 25, manages to break out of jail, join his 15 ye ar old wife, and goes on a killing spree.
Told from two perspectives, that of Arley (Arlington Mowbray LeGrande), the bride, and Annie, an attorney, who represents her in court, the reader reads about the romantic lives of both women and what happens when their lives converge. The relationshop that develops is like that of mother and daughter. Annie protects her from Dillon and fills the gap left by a mother who demonstrated little love. Nevertheless, neither recognize Dillon's persistence to obtain his child.
Told from two perspectives, that of Arley (Arlington Mowbray LeGrande), the bride, and Annie, an attorney, who represents her in court, the reader reads about the romantic lives of both women and what happens when their lives converge. The relationshop that develops is like that of mother and daughter. Annie protects her from Dillon and fills the gap left by a mother who demonstrated little love. Nevertheless, neither recognize Dillon's persistence to obtain his child.
Uncomfortable subject matter at times. Beautiful writing, both description and flow.
Great characters; you learn to care about them deeply. Really enjoyed this book.
Good read, good author
well done by an excellent author
You will not be dissappointed. Mitchard is a great writer.
Good book. It kept me interested in reading it...though it was easy to figure out what was going to happen.
A well written novel about the dynamics of relationships, friends, families,and significant others.
EXPLORES THE RECKLESS DESIRE THAT CAN SEIZE THE MOST SENSIBLE GIRL AT A VULNERABLE MOMENT
Anything by Mitchard is fabulous!
a great read!! i found the characters believable and realistic. you will experience an array of emotions while reading this story. i read it over and over again and i doesn't get old :}
Mitchard is the author of the bestseller The Deep End of the Ocean.
From inside the jacket: "Arley Mowbray, only fourteen years old, is dreaming girlhood dreams in South Texas when, on a dare, she writes a letter to an imprisoned robber nearly twice her age. Almost overnight, the story of Arley and Dillon LeGrande becomes the stuff of legend. Their lives intertwine with rhythms of age-old tales of love, too reckless to last, too mesmerizing to flee."
"Transformed from an innocent to an outlaw's wife, and then the mother of his child, Arley unwittingly draws another into the eye of the hurricane..." and a public aid lawyer, Annie Singer, becomes the closest thing to a mother Arley has ever known and has to "stand between the girl and the storm."
From inside the jacket: "Arley Mowbray, only fourteen years old, is dreaming girlhood dreams in South Texas when, on a dare, she writes a letter to an imprisoned robber nearly twice her age. Almost overnight, the story of Arley and Dillon LeGrande becomes the stuff of legend. Their lives intertwine with rhythms of age-old tales of love, too reckless to last, too mesmerizing to flee."
"Transformed from an innocent to an outlaw's wife, and then the mother of his child, Arley unwittingly draws another into the eye of the hurricane..." and a public aid lawyer, Annie Singer, becomes the closest thing to a mother Arley has ever known and has to "stand between the girl and the storm."
Come on, even for a state like Texas, I found it difficult to believe that a 14 year old girl would marry, not to mention that the spouse was an imprisoned criminal & her parent gave permission. This story seemed ridiculous, unbelievable & full of nonsense.
Read her other book Cage of Stars. It's full of substance & much more plausible.
Read her other book Cage of Stars. It's full of substance & much more plausible.
Author of Deep End of the Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard penned a compelling story - I hated the subject matter (you'll see) but got caught up in the characters nonetheless. That takes talent.
a great drama, it takes you away......
This is the same author of the book "The deep end of the ocean"
Good reading, but a sad tale.
Arley Mowbray,only fourteen years old,is dreaming girlhood dreams in South Texas when on a dare,she writes a letter to an imprisoned robber nearley twice her age.Almost overnight,the story of Arley and Dillon LeGrande becomes the stuff of legend.Their lives intertwine with rhythms of age-old tales of love,to reckless to last, too mesmerizing to flee.
Could not put this one down!
good book--good read
Mitchard at her best. I could not put it down.
Hardback, great condition by the author of End of the Ocean.
Great condition.
