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She Wanted It All (2005)

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0060567643 (ISBN13: 9780060567644)
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Another fascinating true story about yet another terrible Texan !! I found it one of the author's better ones for sure . What a piece of work Celeste was/is !!I've mentioned before Simon & Schuster's cover art never transfers across to e-devices which is annoying. Why can't they sort this out ?? I was surprised there are no photos as well. I'll need to go to Google to look at her and her family.She gave her daughters rotten lives, all of them-it's little wonder they severed all ties. You couldn't fault them for it. Steve sounded a really kind man who was led into this relationship and persisted in giving her chance after chance after chance. I was shocked at his financial advisers and the fact they didn't get his affairs in better order to prevent her getting at his assets. Tracey also sounded like a decent but totally misled person.I had to laugh that Celeste was diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder. There was nothing borderline about it in the least. She was never, ever satisfied and wanted more all the time. A selfish, stupid, thoughtless witch.I did spot some mistakes-hi-tech spelled as hightech which I've not seen before and the odd missing fullstop and apostrophe. Debrided was misspelt as debreeded, rap as wrap and speck as spec. Then a big ouch for me was illicit used in place of elicit, a different meaning entirely and a little slapdash. Also Tracey's name was Tracy all of a sudden. I've knocked a star off for this carelessness as these errors should have been noticed. This sentence was confusing, too...."including that Celeste had told called Steve names and told her about...". Just too sloppy in a paid-for book. I expect better.I'll read more by her as she researches her subjects really well. They just need a good spit 'n' polish !!

This is the true story of trophy wife Celeste Beard who wanted everything, but her husband stood in the way, so she enlists her lesbian lover, a love-struck, middle-aged woman with a history of mental illness to get rid of her husband, then when Celeste begins to doubt the reliability of her lover she tries to hire a hit man to take care of her.This is an excellent book. Kathryn Casey has a journalism background and it shows in her attention to detail and the amount of research that goes into her books. She gives a complete biography of all the major people involved in the case, detailing their childhoods in a style that is interesting and informative.By the time the book is over, you really know the people involved. You understand what happened and the tremendous impact the crime has had on all involved.I recommend this book to any true crime fan.

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Kathryn Casey did a phenomenal job writing this book... I was emotionally connected the entire read. She made this book very difficult to put down! I can easily say that I hated Celeste from the very first chapter & found myself speaking out loud as I read this story with "OMGs" & "What a B!&ch!" The mental & emotional abuse she put her daughters through was easily bad enough but the way Celeste treated Steve, her wealthy husband was despicable & disgusting. Several attempts to end his life & the frivolous spending was atrocious. It's absolutely amazing how many victims she had wrapped up in her life by the end of this book. She deserves to spend eternity in hell.In a nutshell, I was very pleased with Kathryn Casey's writing style & will definitely be reading another one of her books soon!
—Carie

I don't read a lot of true crime, it's not my normal genre, but it's something I do enjoy on the random one-off and fairly infrequently. I've read only perhaps 4 or 5 before this, including Mindhunter and Helter Skelter. But recently I was in the mood for a true crime story, and downloaded 7 or 8 samples of books to try. After reading the samples, I was sucked into this story almost from the first page. I'm not going to go into the story itself, since it's a bit self-explanatory, but rather tell you that I found the way the author told this story to be incredibly compelling, in some ways like reading a fiction novel, only knowing this is a true story made it even more chilling. The one thing that did bother me about the story (not the writing, but the actual slant of the story) is just how much the twins and their friends are portrayed as victims. I felt some of their actions in...colluding? with Celeste in drugging & lying to Steve were indefensible, especially as older teenagers. Old enough to know right from wrong. However, I also admit that there's no way to know how they felt in that situation or why they ultimately did what they did.
—Angela James

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