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ashezbookz's review
3.0
Not my favourite - I think I just hated him so much that I didn't want to hear what he had to say, which, unfortunately, was the crux of the book - oh well, I'm glad it ended the way that it did
karenjanee's review
3.0
Yuck....Tom Capano sure was an awful man. I think what makes it worse was that he HAD everything - a family, a great career but had to go an screw it up with numerous affairs and to manipulate and control these women. As much as I want to give this 4 stars I agree that there almost seemed to be too much information at times. This book also left me wondering about Capano's family - I would have loved to see some insight from Capano's ex wife Kay - What was going on in mind all those years? Did she know he has all these other girlfriends? This could really use an update as well, since it has been 15 years since the trial concluded, and I would love to know what some of these people are doing now.
3.5 stars.
3.5 stars.
chelsea_not_chels's review
5.0
This is my second Ann Rule book (the first was THE STRANGER BESIDE ME) and I loved it. Capano, the real-life villain of this piece, wasn't (that we know of) a serial killer like Ted Bundy, but he was terrifying in his own way. I had a stalker when I was in high school--someone I had never encouraged and had no entanglements with--and it was terrifying, so I can't imagine how much worse it must have been for Anne Marie Fahey to realize that the person she loved was truly a monster, and trying to disentangle herself, and then paying the ultimate cost for it. And how Capano just GOT AWAY WITH IT for so long, and how it all could have been prevented if anyone had listened to Capano's previous girlfriend's complaints about him, just makes it all worse. Rule has SO MUCH detail on this case, though my edition is somewhat old and I did have to look up what happened to Capano after the case. It's all almost too much to believe, but this is a frightening reality many women live with and I think an important look at how much stalking and relationship violence can begin seemingly innocuously, with gifts and sweet words, and escalates to isolation and manipulation and control, and then slide straight into violence and even straight-up murder.
mi_amors_wife's review
2.0
while i've never read a true crime book before, i don't think i like this type of book. there was way too much detail and it took forever to actually get into the story line. the first part of the book describe the characters ancestors. i don't see a point in reading about a person's grandparents, it didn't matter in the plot. as much as i wanted to put this book down, i didn't because i wanted to see what happened in the end.
jennoux's review against another edition
4.0
This book shows how the human kind can be manipulative and horrible. I wasn't a fan of the first 15% of the book but after the first part was over it was very good. Ann Rule really knows how to tell a story!
seabirdsong's review
5.0
Tom Capano is a possessive and controlling womanizer, and a pathological liar who got away with it for many years due to his status as a golden boy within his community. It was a long time bringing him to justice and very satisfying when it finally happened. She always does amazing justice to the victims and their families with her honest but compassionate depictions of the innocents involved and manages always to keep things interesting. This is one of Ann's longer books, but it flew by quickly.