--- product_id: 61245612 title: "The Good Samaritan Paperback – 12 April 2018" brand: "john marrs" price: "Rp701889" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/61245612-the-good-samaritan-paperback-12-april-2018 store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # The Good Samaritan Paperback – 12 April 2018 **Brand:** john marrs **Price:** Rp701889 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Good Samaritan Paperback – 12 April 2018 by john marrs - **How much does it cost?** Rp701889 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/61245612-the-good-samaritan-paperback-12-april-2018) ## Best For - john marrs enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted john marrs brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![The Good Samaritan Paperback – 12 April 2018 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61DOwTtEGiL.jpg) ![The Good Samaritan Paperback – 12 April 2018 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/618bOrZKexL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Wow what a read! *by A***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2018* My second read of John Marrs and my second 5 star review. There’s something about his writing and storytelling that I just love, even though this is a completely different subject matter than the first one I read - The One.Laura works for a volunteer suicide help line called End Of The Line. They take calls from people who are depressed, troubled and a lot of the time suicidal. Laura is not your average Good Samaritan though. She will listen and she will empathize with you completely and offer you her sympathetic ear, but if Laura thinks you are the right candidate she will encourage you to go through with your suicidal thoughts. She will help you plan it. She will advise you how to do it. She will convince you it is your only solution and she is there to help you end your suffering. The only thing she wants is a call from you when you do it so she can hear your last breath.Approaching 40 and in a troubled marriage with 3 children Laura had a troubled childhood and upbringing and apparent serious ill health recently. She wants to help people end their suffering and leave this world. She is the ultimate chameleon. A big fundraiser for End Of The Line and a soothing and helpful voice to a lot despite talking plenty of people into taking their own life. But now someone is on to her. Someone has discovered who she is and they want revenge. Laura though is one resilient woman and will not be threatened lightly and will do anything and everything to protect herself and her secrets. She is determined to get her family back together at any cost and continue with her work.Well wow, what a read. Totally exilerating. Laura our central character is absolutely bonkers. I mean over the top bonkers but you just love spending time with her as large parts of the book are spent in her narrative. She just becomes more and more creepy as the book goes on.The story is fantastic. A quite unnerving subject matter it is brilliantly told as it unfolds into a game of cat and mouse and the absolutely mental world of Laura is slowly revealed. The tension throughout is really palpable and there are so many chapters where you really don’t know where the story will go, plenty of surprises.I loved my first read by John Marrs - The One and I love this one just as much, despite being a completely different book. I just love this authors writing style and storytelling. Even the little things like the title chapters in this pleased me. They were titled “Laura - two months after “insert name here” death”. A simple but very effective way of easily displaying the passing of time without the usual adding of dates, which I always find a little confusing and have to check back in a book to see how much time has passed. The chapter title in one little sentence perfectly places me in an instant in the right time frame without me even having to think about it.I could go on and on about what I love about this book but would probably get into spoiler territory so I will just say that I would highly recommend this to any fan of thrillers or indeed just good storytelling. It’s a riveting read from the first page and in Laura, we genuinely have one of the most creepy, unhinged and bonkers central characters that I can ever remember reading. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars The Good Samaritan *by A***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 March 2018* I'm in two minds about this book to be honest. It was a horrible book to read, and by horrible I mean creepy and nasty and the characters were so distasteful that I actually felt uncomfortable during the majority of my reading experience. Despite that, it was still cruising for a whopping five shiny stars, that is until towards the end when, for me, it degenerated a wee bit, and lost a star as it stopped skirting along the line and did cross over into the realm of the incredible as it became, to me, a bit of a farce. There was just too much at the end escalation-wise and that just lost me a little bit. The absolute ending, when it came, resurrected it however and managed to save it for me.Wife and mother of two, Laura fills her time volunteering at End of the Line, a suicide helpline. Their ethos is not as you'd expect. Instead of trying to talk people out of whatever they are planning, they respect the choices they want and just try and make whatever they decide to do a little easier. But Laura has an ulterior motive in return for her time. Every time she answers the phone, she is hoping for the one individual who is determined to end it all. Even if they don't quite know it yet. all she needs is a sign, an inkling, and then she helps them in her own special way.The first part of the book sets the scene for Laura. We hear of her past escapades, her family life and a small amount of personal background. We see how she interacts with her co-workers and are privy to some of her secrets. We also learn about people she has helped in the past and how she is delighted when she answers the phone to a new client.Then we hear from Ryan, he has a very different story to tell. But I can't say much about that here. Suffice to say, he is a very wounded character and his part is all about trying to make sense of something he has very little understanding of.Ryan and Laura's stories then start to merge and more of the other characters get dragged into the mire and the rest of the book is what happens when their worlds collide, culminating in what to me was a very interesting but, on reflection, satisfying ending.Without trying to give anything away, there was a lot of repetition in this book. Scenes played out twice from the POV of different characters with only a small amount of difference. Personally, I am really not a fan of this way of storytelling even when, like in this book, it is done well. I find myself scanning rather than reading and have to concentrate too hard to rein myself in which doesn't make for a good all round experience for me. I understand why this had to happen in this book, given the nature of the characters and the plot but, it's just not my favourite thing and it did irk me a tad. Not enough to mark the book down, I've already said why I did that.One of the things I really love in a good nasty, dark psychological thriller is credibility. To chill and scare me, it has to be realistic and, for the majority of this book, it was. But, as the two main characters started to escalate, that line was crossed for me and, instead of shivering with trepidation at what I was reading, I did start to roll my eyes as it just went a little OTT and that kind of undid all the really great work that the author had done thus far. It was also, for me, a bit unbalanced. Again, probably just my own personal preference but with books of this nature, with such horrible characters, I do like a bit of respite along the way. I don't remember getting (m)any of those lighter moments in this book. Maybe if I had, the parts I thought OTT wouldn't have stuck out so much for me.That said, the author did redeem himself at the end. I was wondering how he would manage to wrap it all up. Even before it all fell apart, I had no idea where we would eventually end up but, when we got there, I did sit back nodding and thought it was a job well done.All in all, a mostly good read which did leave me satisfied at the end but which did lose me along the way a tad. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Great book *by K***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2024* Great book. Great story. Fascinating to read to the end. Always keep you on the page. People have very strange mind and they created the one world to suit them and no one can mess with it or you get punishment for trying to corrected. 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