Sophia C. reviewed on 1/1/2013 + 289 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I requested Right to Life hoping to read more about abortion portrayed in literature, without knowing that Stephen King had decreed that Disney would certainly never make a movie based on a Jack Ketchum novel. Right to Life is a novella inspired by real events about the experiences of a woman kidnapped in front of the abortion clinic by a couple who seems to know the details of her life. Although they are anti-abortion protesters, the man is best described as a sexual sadist with a submissive accomplice wife. Ketchum does a good job of portraying the terror from the victims perspective at the beginning of her ordeal, but as the story pans out through the duration of her captivity, the writing, characterizations of the abductors, and plot seemed more sparse and unpolished. The story is graphic and disturbing, not for the faint of heart. The two accompanying short stories, Brave Girl and Returns, are short snapshots that play to Kitchums talent for the literary equivalent of the quick, intense sketch.

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