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"There up on the top shelf, the green-eyed doll, the only clean, pure thing in the trailer sat. He’d lock his gaze on her porcelain face and pretend she was real…

…Mama had been right all along. He did want to ____ the doll."

This is another one of those books I couldn’t resist. A woman on the run and a serial killer? Please. I had to read it! Everything about this book, from the blurb, to the story line, to the “creep” factor reminded me of an episode of Criminal Minds (minus Penelope).

The villain was definitely wacked in the head and all the doll references gave me the heebie-jeebies! It was a pretty quick read but was loaded down with enough drama to make a Lifetime Movie seem tame. Not only was there a serial killer on the loose but the heroine is also being stalked as well. Are the serial killer and the stalker one in the same? I'll never tell =) Combined with the lies, secrets and guilt that the characters are dealing with, there's a lot going on in this book.

I thought the steam level was appropriate for the story line and was well done although I did think a couple lines here and there were cheesy.

“Take what you want.”

“I want inside you,” he murmured. “Look at me.” He pushed. She opened and expanded around him. “Feel me buried deep in your body. God, you’re wonderful.”

Slowly, smoldering green eyes looked down to where their bodies joined. Her gaze slid back up, and locked onto his. A weird skip of his heart was pushed from his thoughts.

“No," she said on a gasp. "We're wonderful.”

This is the second book I've read by this author and I have the same feeling about this book as I did about the other book I read...somethings keeping this from being a four or five star read for me. I liked it, but I felt it had more potential, it could have been better. I think a little more development might have helped. Somehow, the author just didn't nail it for me even though the book was well written and had good bones. I didn't like how Matt dealt with a specific situation, he rushed to judgement on something imporant, and that seemed out of character for him. Other than that, I don't have alot of complaints. The book was pretty much what I expected.

There is a supporting character, Ash, that I'd love to know more about. No idea if Ash will eventually get a story or not but I feel like he would be an interesting character to read about. Overall, a good book. I wish I could give it a four star, but it was more like a 3.5.


Tags : The Green-Eyed Doll [Jerrie Alexander] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Catherine McCoy is on the run. For the past year, she's been on the move, hiding the secrets and guilt in her heart. When she lands in small-town Texas and meets Sheriff Matt Ballard,Jerrie Alexander,The Green-Eyed Doll,The Wild Rose Press, Inc. (Crimson Rose),1612174442,FICTION Romance Suspense

The GreenEyed Doll Jerrie Alexander 9781612174440 Books Reviews

Small little Texas town harbors one sick twisted killer. Whenever we got his POV a certain scene from the movie Mommy Dearest kept running through my head. Read it, you'll understand )

While the killer is taking victims, a stranger rolls into town. Catherine McCoy is running from her past. When she realizes she is running low on cash she decides to look for a job to save up some cash before moving on. On her first day into town she is pulled over by the Sheriff and this result in them forming a friendship. Catherine's past haunts her and prevents her from any form of intimacy with the sexy Sheriff but she see's that his search for the killer is causing him a lot of stress and she wants to help him however she can. Not long after getting to town she starts getting gifts which makes the Sheriff think she is in the crosshairs of the killer.

Sheriff Matt Ballard is attracted to the green eyed beauty but can tell she is very skittish when it comes to men. He knows somewhere she has been abused but doesn't push her for her story. The intimacy part of their relationship was slow to come as it should have been given her history. Matt's got a sad history too and he lives his life now with only honesty. He's not big on liars and with the secrets Catherine is hiding you can see it's not going to be pretty when it all comes out.

I do have to say the weakest part of the book was the police procedure and tracking of the killer. Over all though it was a good mystery with quite the perverted killer and a very likable hero and heroine which made it an enjoyable read..
'm going to come right out and say it serial killers fascinate me. Not in a way that I'm cheering them on (Unless that serial killer happens to be named "Dexter Morgan") but that the psychology behind them is an endless maze of intrigue to me. Which is why I immediately requested to read this book.

The book begins with a look inside the killer's thoughts as he revisits his childhood home (a trailer out in the Middle-of-Nowhere, Texas) after his mother (a woman who should never have been allowed to procreate) has died. He's remembering his abusive childhood and the green-eyed doll that he used to look out a crack in the door to as he was locked in the closet - the thing that helped him escape his reality as a child. When he finds that his mother, in a last attempt to hurt him, has removed the doll, whatever small bit of sanity he had left cracks and flies right out the window.

Enter in Catherine, a woman on the run from her past, who is stopped as she's driving into Butte Crest, Texas, by the Sheriff Matt Ballard, also, in his own way, running from his past. They both harbor secrets and self-inflicted guilt... but it's these secrets that have led them to each other.

The Serial Killer paints his victims up like the green-eyed doll that he loved so much as a child as a way to have his own doll. While he's smart about most of what he does, he also has that twisted mentality that if a woman smiles at him (even as a waitress because that's her job), she must want him. And if she has green-eyes... well... she was meant to be his. Go figure, Catherine has green eyes.

Thus begins a fascinating story that I couldn't put down.

Jerrie Alexander writes a magnificent tale of intrigue, murder, mystery, romance, suspense and amusement. There's not just one bad-guy, and, as, with all great characters, all of them are three-dimensional, able to waver on the good and bad side. And you're able to relate to them, even the bad guys - and that's what a great author does.

The book is well-rounded with all the aforementioned aspects that have you continuously turning the pages as fast as you can. Jerrie Alexander won the Golden Pen award in 2010 for this book and it was (and is) well deserved. I very much look forward to reading her other books as soon as possible!

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"There up on the top shelf, the green-eyed doll, the only clean, pure thing in the trailer sat. He’d lock his gaze on her porcelain face and pretend she was real…

…Mama had been right all along. He did want to ____ the doll."

This is another one of those books I couldn’t resist. A woman on the run and a serial killer? Please. I had to read it! Everything about this book, from the blurb, to the story line, to the “creep” factor reminded me of an episode of Criminal Minds (minus Penelope).

The villain was definitely wacked in the head and all the doll references gave me the heebie-jeebies! It was a pretty quick read but was loaded down with enough drama to make a Lifetime Movie seem tame. Not only was there a serial killer on the loose but the heroine is also being stalked as well. Are the serial killer and the stalker one in the same? I'll never tell =) Combined with the lies, secrets and guilt that the characters are dealing with, there's a lot going on in this book.

I thought the steam level was appropriate for the story line and was well done although I did think a couple lines here and there were cheesy.

“Take what you want.”

“I want inside you,” he murmured. “Look at me.” He pushed. She opened and expanded around him. “Feel me buried deep in your body. God, you’re wonderful.”

Slowly, smoldering green eyes looked down to where their bodies joined. Her gaze slid back up, and locked onto his. A weird skip of his heart was pushed from his thoughts.

“No," she said on a gasp. "We're wonderful.”

This is the second book I've read by this author and I have the same feeling about this book as I did about the other book I read...somethings keeping this from being a four or five star read for me. I liked it, but I felt it had more potential, it could have been better. I think a little more development might have helped. Somehow, the author just didn't nail it for me even though the book was well written and had good bones. I didn't like how Matt dealt with a specific situation, he rushed to judgement on something imporant, and that seemed out of character for him. Other than that, I don't have alot of complaints. The book was pretty much what I expected.

There is a supporting character, Ash, that I'd love to know more about. No idea if Ash will eventually get a story or not but I feel like he would be an interesting character to read about. Overall, a good book. I wish I could give it a four star, but it was more like a 3.5.