My Daddy is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer by Lena Derhally

3.64 AVERAGE

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justletmeadersread's review

4.0
dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

lilredkmd's review against another edition

3.5
challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

bethanypaisley's review against another edition

4.25
dark informative sad medium-paced

a_mercurio's review against another edition

2.5
dark sad tense slow-paced

momol1a's review against another edition

3.25
emotional informative sad tense medium-paced
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j0098's review against another edition

4.0
This is the story of awful murderer Chris Watts. It is a fascinating story and a good book about his psyche.
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brittkneereadsnrambles's review against another edition

2.0
You’re just better off reading news articles published about the book. This book was literally a compilation of things that have already been in the public for years now.
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kc_leigh's review against another edition

4.0
challenging emotional informative

jamisond's review against another edition

4.0
informative sad medium-paced
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avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

2.5
dark informative sad slow-paced
   I'm not sure if this was an author or narrator error, but in the audiobook, they say that Chris Watts is in Wampanoag Correctional Facility (the Wampanoag people aren't native to Wisconsin) when he's in Waupun Correctional Facility in Wisconsin, which is a completely different Native American tribe that is native to Wisconsin. That error makes me wonder what other factual errors may be in the book. 
  Besides that, the book felt too focused on Chris and not his victims. His daughters felt left out of the narrative. The psychological assessment was interesting. But since she didn't talk to him, it's hard to know how accurate it was. 
  Overall, it was an okay book.


Narrator Rating: 2.25 stars
   If the narrator is the one who made the error with the Native American tribe's name then I'd give them 1 star, however, if it was an error in the text I'd give them 3 stars. So I'm going halfway. Unfortunately, there is no way to search the text in Google Books or Amazon to check. 
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