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The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer by Jennifer Jordan, Liza Rodman

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am_burgler's review against another edition

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dark informative medium-paced

2.75

tamra1130's review against another edition

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dark emotional medium-paced

3.75

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.

pictwiz's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

4.5

leeleemarg's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

olagronski's review against another edition

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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.

momdacook's review against another edition

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5.0

This reminds me of the September to November killing of 1973, after my high school graduation. Bernard Eugene GILES was the serial killer in my days, unfortunately victim Carolyn Bennett was a lifeguard of a subdivision pool, whom I know.

Reading the epilogue, makes me wonder about many of whom I know over the years that has been traumatized of their mental states. With all the bullying, shaming, and other degrading inflictions going on, it is a miracle there are not overwhelming more killers among us.