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ckcombsdotcom's review

5.0
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

gracelouise's review

3.25
medium-paced

gbolson88's review

3.0
dark reflective sad tense slow-paced
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aitchfrost's review

4.0

A fascinating, comprehensive and very honest account of a deeply harrowing loss.
This is a case only really in the periphery of my knowledge, which also feels like a tragedy as the young girl was abducted, presumed murdered but has never actually been found.
I loved how the author takes us back to the start of their life to examine important questions of nature vs nurture and examines the complex early life situations can form behaviours and shape future events.
The level of detail is excellent and this provides a really candid insight, which makes it feel very humbling to be allowed such candid access to such an emotive subject. I enjoyed this thank you.
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laurapeden's review

4.0

3.5/5 Interesting & well-written but also a tad boring.

outsideinoregon's review

3.0

It was interesting but dragged in sections.

Going back and forth between 3 and 4 stars. Review to come.

nicolesullivan98's review

3.5
challenging dark sad slow-paced

This hard hitting memoir for the brother of convicted killer was an eye-opening account of his life growing up in an abusive environement and how this could have contributed to the path that his brother took.

I found the method for this book confusing at times as we were jumping back and forth through the timeline and this was confusing for me. Once I got used to the author's method of writing this account then I was able to connect with the author and his feelings and motivation to write this book. Reading through the account you can see and feel the anguish that he has had when making the decision to write this account and what to include.

This is definitely a gripping and raw story of emotion.
challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced