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Jackie Overton (AKA Samuel Jacob Cooper, and a very long list of other known aliases) is a classic example of an ethically bankrupt predator: a soulless sociopath who self-medicates her lack of an inner self by serial and overlapping exploitation of vulnerable others. Her cons are played out through obsessive manipulation of the emotions of those who have what she craves most: a life. Her book transparently reveals her heavy embellishment of the details of her deception of Sister Wife Meri Brown. Much of the book is clearly composed of outright lies. The lies are repetitive, tedious and often internally inconsistent. The author doesn't care. Not about the pain she causes, not about anyone, except herself, and filling the hollow emptiness at the core of her being. Ms. Overton's typical sociopath's disdain for the common sense of those around her, and her readers, is most laughably apparent when she produces what she claims is proof that she is, and was, in fact an attractive, male, millionaire businessman, with several remunerative international companies. Her proof of that is a mirage, disappearing as it seems to be approached. Google image search shows that the image she claims depicts her, belongs to another person entirely, one who has no relation to her or her predatory ways. I am deeply saddened by the depth of emotional pain Meri must have been in, to fall for Overton's sick mind games. It is, however, understandable that she stumbled when she did. She had been betrayed and abandoned by those she trusted most: Meri was asked by her polygamist husband Kody to grant him a divorce specifically so that he could legally marry new wife Robyn. Robyn whom Kody clearly did have a husband's interest in, while Meri was tossed aside like a used toy. Robyn who could conceive and bear a child, something Meri could no longer do. Possibly, even, Robyn who acted the role of loving co-wife but knew all along that Meri was being humiliated in by a catfisher yet who repaid Meri's stunning generosity in allowing the divorce, by simply watching as Meri sunk under. In almost any other circumstance, I believe that Meri would have easily have been warned by the multiple red flags Overton dropped, and noticed that she was being leeched off by an emotional parasite. Overton tells the reader, and told Meri, that she was Samuel Cooper. As Mr Samuel Cooper, Overton pretended to desire nothing but to supply a lonely and wounded Meri with the soothing balm of a man's abiding support, love, and passion. Its often hard to read this book, as it shows Meri, who wants only to be cared for and about, being treated badly by three people who gave lip service to respecting and loving her, when in fact by their actions they show care for themselves only. It would be hard to guess whose betrayal cut Meri most deeply. This book purports to be about the love that cat fisher-sociopath Jackie Overton, as Samuel, has for Meri. As with any 'information' given by a sociopath, the true information value of this book is not in what it represents itself to be, but rather peripherally, in the way in which it illustrates how and why the sociopath selects their victim, bait, and goals. I can't condone purchase money going to Ms Overton (see other poster's remarks on this topic,) however I do believe that if you have an unusually high tolerance for flat out lies repeated ad nauseum, and for really poor writing skills, and for blatant self pity saturating every page, and for absurd grandiosity, you will find this book to be revealing and informative. If you have ever thought "no one could be so bereft of a sense of self, that they would put in hundreds and hundreds of hours, simply for the power - fix of being able to momentarily deceive, control, and use a hurting person who has done them no harm"... well, this book will definitely convince you otherwise. It has been said that sociopaths lack the ability to feel emotional pain, and thus, have no empathy. This book illustrates that a sociopath can readily sense the emotional pain of their prey, and can read the wants, needs and behaviors of that prey. Using this knowledge, the Overtons of this world fashion a decoy that motivates their prey to cling to them, held in return by a sharp mix of shame and need. This is not a felt empathy, but is like enough to serve the predator well. At the end, over and over and over the empty soul of the predator cries out: "more!". Meri is not the first person Jackie Overton has catfished. She takes on the persona of males when seeking to fill herself by controlling females, and takes on the persona of females when she stalks control of males. She steals from the mannerisms of those she has gone after, using the stolen parts of real humans to better her disguise in her next stalk. Yet all through her book, one phrase repeats "I cried." Overton tells the reader she cried all night. She says she still cries. Again and again and again she tells us of the occasions of her sobs, as Samuel Cooper, studly millionaire. The penny drops when you recognize that while her book tells of behaviors that seem to indicate emotions besides empty-soul-pain, she almost never refers to any tears but her own. I'm fairly sure that Meri cried also, before, during and after, as she was processing the damage Overton has done. I'd bet there are times she still cries. And if the 'so loving' "Samuel Cooper" carries through on threats that he intends to put forth even more salacious stories about Meri, I bet she will again. But at least some of those tears will be for the sick emptiness she saw for all too long in the eyes of her predator. And that is something Ms Overton will never, and can never, understand.