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Book ReviewsEVIDENCE OF LOVE |
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Book: EVIDENCE OF LOVE
Written by: JOHN BLOOM |
Publisher: Bantam
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Riveting account of true crime murder
Rating:
5 / 5
Next to Fatal Vision by Joe McGinness, Evidence of Love is the best true crime book I've ever read. The authors give you so much detail, you feel as though you know these people. How could Candy Montgomery have responded any differently when Betty Gore appeared at the door of the utility room with an ax in her hand? Candy was a remarkable woman to have behaved as she did in the bloody aftermath. Most people would have fallen apart, had a nervous breakdown, run away. What made her tick? Why did Betty Gore threaten Candy with an ax in the first place? Was she just trying to scare Candy, or was she mentally unbalaced? I found myself not understanding Candy's response, for she is such a self-possessed person. On the other hand, only a person with her strength and will to live could have survived that nightmarish enounter in the Gore utility room. I believe John Bloom did an outstanding job researching this "crime", and reporting it. Don't know if he's written others, but intend to find out. Only Fatal Vision (a masterpiece) and In Cold Blood by the fabulous departed Truman Capote are better than Evidence of Love.
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Rating:
5 / 5
I bought this book many years ago, after reading an excerpt in Cosmopolitan magazine. I remember when this happened, because I live in Texas and it was in the newspaper. I have re-read the book many times, hoping to finally understand things from Candy's point of view, such as it is....This book is well-written and spell-binding. I don't feel that the authors were "sympathetic" to Candy; they seemed quite objective to me. There was no need to be sympathetic anyway, she did what she did, and she was very lucky she got the jury that she did.I do wish very much that this book had photographs. And I wish that I knew what happened to everyone in the book years later. I read somewhere a long time ago that Pat and Candy had moved to Georgia and had separated. And that the Gore children (grown now)still resent Candy, needless to say. I just wonder how Candy thinks about the killing in her own mind, every day....It probably doesn't bother her much since she simply went about her business afterward and had no plans to reveal what happened. "I did not hold off because of the prints." Amazing.
A "Read-it-Againer"
Rating:
5 / 5
You find yourself rereading this book every once in a while throughout the years because you can't believe what happened happened. Amazing story with an even more amazing ending. Makes you wish you knew what happened to the survivor of that axe fight. How did her life turn out? One thing's for sure, you never stop trying to figure her out. Was she merely a sociopath or was she just having a bad day? And what about the people on that jury?
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