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Gitchie Girl: The Survivor's Inside Story of the Mass Murders that Shocked the Heartland
Phil Hamman, Sandy Hamman
3.49 AVERAGE
35 reviews for:
Gitchie Girl: The Survivor's Inside Story of the Mass Murders that Shocked the Heartland
Phil Hamman, Sandy Hamman
3.49 AVERAGE
This is a local, infamous story - one I was not familiar with. I knew that something terrible happened in Gitchie Manitou, but beyond homicide, I didn’t know much. People in our area have been interested in the book for a while now, and I finally got around to reading it. I was skeptical of how it would read, since it didn’t have a big publisher associated with it, but I liked the third person point of view. It made the true crime book read like a fiction novel. Furthermore, it was edited better than I thought it would be. There was only one spot that felt like it didn’t belong in the section it was in. The only thing that could have been done better was the ending. I felt like I knew enough about what happened to Sandy during the crime and the trial, but I didn’t feel like there was any closure regarding the aftermath. It showed her happy, but I didn’t feel like it wrapped up well. Maybe explaining why she decided to come forward now would have helped.
Wow! This book was amazing! I was recommended this and immediately started and finished it. This book tells about the murder of 4 boys and one girl surviving. Sandra was so brave to survive everything and to relive the day in order to put the brothers behind bars. I admire her for going to see one of them to ask why he had allowed her to live. I hated reading about her downfall and how she fell into a depressive stage. It was definitely expected and I'm glad she was able to marry and have her own kids. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about surviver stories.
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dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
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medium-paced
dark
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I have been wanting to read this book for a long time. I had heard great things about it, so I finally found it on sale and picked it up. I wish that I would not have spent the four dollars on this book. I was thoroughly disappointed in it. It is fairly short, and I read it over a couple of days while waiting in the school pick up line. It features the bizarre murder of four teenage boys, who, along with one girl, went to Gitchie Manitou State Park to hang out around a campfire. Three men appeared to stalk them for some amount of time, pretended to be police doing a drug bust, and wound up killing them. The girl was taken by the men, raped, and then dropped off back home. The book started off to be very interesting, and the story itself was weird. I learned more from Googling news articles and reading about it than I did from the book. The writers of the books seemed to want to tell the story in a way that they felt would make it interesting, but it really did a disservice to the actual events and the story of the surviving girl.
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Not the best-written book I have read, but the narrative is fairly intriguing. Given that it is a short book, it is worth reading until the end, despite the writing limitations, just to see how the entire story plays out.
challenging
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hopeful
tense
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