A Light in the Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy

4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars | 194 ratings

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Last update: 07-28-2024


Top reviews from the United States

brie
5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing read from a different perspective
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2024
This was a great book that brought the Ted Bundy story back to the victims and survivors. She did a great job of not only telling her own story filled with hardships, but the story of others. Heavily recommend.
Trisha L Meerman
4.0 out of 5 stars Bundy Outshined
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2024
This is the voice missing from the media collective when discussing serial killers - their victims. This is a wonderful and compelling perspective about the people who survived or were taken. Their lives and hope and dreams matter more.
Geri Spieler
5.0 out of 5 stars An Insight to a Survivor of Ted Bundy
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2023
This book is not for the squeamish or sensitive. It's an excellent telling of a survivor of a Ted Bundy attack in which her sorority sisters are murdered. Kathy Kleiner Rubin and Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi do an excellent, if unusual, way to tell the story. It was a detailed if horrific, recount of that murderous night in which Bundy gets access to the sorority house by a malfunctioning back door lock. I found the telling captivating. I liked the fact that this follows one of his victim's life beyond the attack and how she is truly a brave soul not to let this incident define her entire life. She is a very brave and strong woman who didn't let Bundy ruin her life.
dawn l koenig
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful story of survival
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024
Agree totally with the author about the treatment oh the victims. Why do we have a fascination with a brutal serial killer
Nicole Clark
5.0 out of 5 stars Such an interesting perspective!
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2023
I really enjoy true crime genre - maybe a little too much according to my husband - and I am used to the observer point of view. Sometimes we hear from someone who investigated the case or was otherwise peripheral to the crime. I really enjoyed this book and the insights from a would-be victim, as terrifying as her story is.

Easy to read with an open conversational tone, and engaging from beginning to end.
Maddie
3.0 out of 5 stars A Light in the Dark
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2023
If you like true crime this is a must-read for you. I really enjoyed this one. I was expecting more of the book to do with Ted Bundy. This was more of a memoir from one of the victims which was fine. But to be honest that is not really what I cared about. I was more here for the case. But it is still really interesting hearing this person's story and how she was effected by this. Over all a solid read.
Judy T
4.0 out of 5 stars Different in a good way
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2023
This book is a lot different from other books that have been written about Ted Bundy, and it is partly because it isn’t just about him. It is also about the author, who tells about her life before the attack, some of the things she went through because of the attack, and about her life after the attack. For people who have read a lot of the other books about Bundy, some of the information that doesn’t pertain to her own attack can be found in many of the other books but there are a few facts that I read in this book that were new to me because I have read almost every book there is on Bundy and haven’t read a few of the things that were in this one. I did notice one small mistake where the author says that when Bundy was captured after his first escape from Colorado that he was found walking around on the road but in other books and articles it says he was pulled over because he was driving and swerving in a car he had stolen after wandering around in the mountains for days. However, I believe it’s easy to have made the mistake because Bundy’s first escape did involve him walking around for days in the mountains trying to find food and shelter but his ultimate goal was to leave the town he was in but he went in circles and was tired and hungry and ended up being caught close to where he had escaped from in the same town. I applaud the author for telling her story and for wanting to remember the other victims and their stories and who they might have been or become if not for Bundy so cruelly taking their lives. She has a much different opinion about Bundy being portrayed in other books as handsome and intelligent and charming and also in thinking that this isn’t why a lot of his victims were taken in by his charm or good looks, but rather another viewpoint which I will let the reader find this out so as not to write and spoilers in my review. Overall, I highly recommend this book to others.
Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written portraying the truth about the monster
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2023
I love that the author stayed true to the purpose of honoring the victims of Ted Bundy with this book, while also sharing her incredible life story of survival. Quick, easy read and heart-wrenching at the same time.

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