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vtlism's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.5
Sad, but brilliant how she uses the fact of his being a killer to highlight how truly awful her mother is.
bethmorvant's review against another edition
4.0
Before picking this book up, I had no idea who Tony Costa was. Now I do, and he was pretty disturbing.
This book was a mix of memoir and true crime. The memoir part (the whole babysitter aspect) was boring and mostly pointless, however the true crime chapters had my attention. This dude was very similar to ol Teddy Bundy…
This book was a mix of memoir and true crime. The memoir part (the whole babysitter aspect) was boring and mostly pointless, however the true crime chapters had my attention. This dude was very similar to ol Teddy Bundy…
iceangel32's review against another edition
4.0
This book grabbed me from the beginning and did not let go. It was a newer story to me so it kept me hanging on. I enjoyed the back and forth of the two stories and respected the facts of the story starting with Tony’s childhood and Liza’s childhood as well. I also respected at the start of the book it was stated that these are the memories of Liza and the facts according to multiple sources on Tony. I enjoyed the epilogue and how they did follow up research on some of he missing women. I enjoyed the book the best you can enjoy a book about a serial killer.
olagronski's review against another edition
5.0
As a little girl, Liza knew Tony as just Tony: the hotel’s handyman, the man that took Liza and her sister along for rides in his truck, bought them popsicles, and made every dull day a bit more memorable. Without the rose-colored glasses of childhood to protect her from the truth, Liza learns as an adult that those truck rides weren’t to the woods, they were to burial grounds—Tony Costa’s own sanctuary of shallow graves stuffed with his victims. While reading this book, you’ll sit alongside Liza as she tries to untangle the web of trauma surrounding her own childhood while connecting the dots of Tony’s horrors. This is a spine-tingling, thought-provoking story that gives you more chills when you remember it’s all a true story.