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Title: BOOK FULL OF YAWNS
Review: Most of Ann Rule's true crime books play to her female demographic target by being anti-male screeds."Heart Full of Lies" is her attempt to add a touch of balance by writing about a an especially dislikeable woman who murders her genuinely likeable husband.Trouble is that Rule's writing needs an injection of caffeine. It's just sleepy. She just slogs through to the end, making little effort to energize the story. That's a shame, since the reader comes away feeling that Rule has been a bit uninterested in the story herself, and that a more compelling tale could be told by a writer who does not have so many books to her name that she's just coasting her way to a best seller.The writing at times looks like it didn't even go through a first-pass edit.Murderous Liysa is clearly evil on so many levels that any writer who put in the effort to tell the story could have produced something at least marginally readable. "Heart Full of Lies" is Rule at her laziest.
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