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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Amazing book! So well written and hard to put down. The research that was put into this book is fasinating.
Extremely dark and upsetting but I couldn’t put it down
Interesting read, I found it a bit dry and long winded in places. But interesting all the same.
Wow. This book was so much better than I expected. I have been so pleasantly surprised with these non-fictions lately. This one was on another level. Michelle's writing is truely poetic. She is prolific at what she does. I love that the first half of this book highlighted the vitims and the importance of their stories. It really recreated the terror of the time. The legacy left by McNamara is beautiful, I'm so glad that people came together to finish and publish this work. Unreal.
dark
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
This was interesting and provided a lot of good information, but ultimately felt a little too meandering for me. I don’t know whether that was always going to be how this book ended up, or a product of the author passing before completing it and the drafting being picked up by others. We had author autobiography, time jumps, discussions of other serial rapists/killers/robbers, etc. As someone unfamiliar with almost everything in this book, I was sometimes confused or taken out of the true story because of it.
Also, I know this is no fault of the book’s, but the timing is so unfortunate that the man’s identity was announced after it was published. I would have loved more updating in the epilogue to see how everything fit with all the research Michelle had done and discussed.
Also, I know this is no fault of the book’s, but the timing is so unfortunate that the man’s identity was announced after it was published. I would have loved more updating in the epilogue to see how everything fit with all the research Michelle had done and discussed.
challenging
dark
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
In a nutshell: An unfinished true crime novel written by journalist obsessed with finding the Golden State Killer, a serial rapist preying on California for over a decade.
Recommendation: If you enjoy true crime, you should enjoy this one for sure! I'd read it again.
I kept seeing this one advertised and it intrigued me. I'm so glad I went with my gut and picked it up!
Michelle Mcnamara was obsessed with crime from a young age when a woman was killed in an alley not far from her home. As Mcnamara matured, she became more fascinated. A particular case stuck with her: A serial rapist turned murderer that preyed on California 30 years ago. After moving slightly south and murdering 10 people, the Golden State Killer vanished and was never caught. Mcnamara researched and compiled evidence for years before her untimely death in 2016.
So unfortunately, the author of this book passed away before finishing the book from a combination of pills she was taking along with a condition no one knew she had. But with the help of a few of her relations, the book was completed. It was a really good book that was very detailed and lovers of true crime will enjoy this one!
At times it was a bit dry... mostly at the beginning, the set up of the narrative and whatnot. But once you get into it it's intriguing and you want to keep going.
I don't have much else to add.
Recommendation: If you enjoy true crime, you should enjoy this one for sure! I'd read it again.
I kept seeing this one advertised and it intrigued me. I'm so glad I went with my gut and picked it up!
Michelle Mcnamara was obsessed with crime from a young age when a woman was killed in an alley not far from her home. As Mcnamara matured, she became more fascinated. A particular case stuck with her: A serial rapist turned murderer that preyed on California 30 years ago. After moving slightly south and murdering 10 people, the Golden State Killer vanished and was never caught. Mcnamara researched and compiled evidence for years before her untimely death in 2016.
“One day soon, you’ll hear a car pull up to your curb, an engine cut out. You’ll hear footsteps coming up your front walk. Like they did for Edward Wayne Edwards, twenty-nine years after he killed Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew, in Sullivan, Wisconsin. Like they did for Kenneth Lee Hicks, thirty years after he killed Lori Billingsley, in Aloha, Oregon.
The doorbell rings.
No side gates are left open. You’re long past leaping over a fence. Take one of your hyper, gulping breaths. Clench your teeth. Inch timidly toward the insistent bell.
This is how it ends for you.
“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark,” you threatened a victim once.
Open the door. Show us your face.
Walk into the light.”
So unfortunately, the author of this book passed away before finishing the book from a combination of pills she was taking along with a condition no one knew she had. But with the help of a few of her relations, the book was completed. It was a really good book that was very detailed and lovers of true crime will enjoy this one!
At times it was a bit dry... mostly at the beginning, the set up of the narrative and whatnot. But once you get into it it's intriguing and you want to keep going.
I don't have much else to add.
Recommended for: Anyone who can name upwards of five serial killers without the aid of Google, anyone who watches the ID Channel despite somewhat cheesy reenactments, anyone who has ever been obsessed with an unsolved mystery, anyone who worries about her own obsessions.
In short: Anyone like me.
Full review here: http://www.paulatreickdeboard.com/paulas-blog/whatimreading-true-crime-edition
In short: Anyone like me.
Full review here: http://www.paulatreickdeboard.com/paulas-blog/whatimreading-true-crime-edition