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peteski_au's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Drug use, Grief, Toxic relationship, Murder, Physical abuse, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Car accident, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence
romcm's review
5.0
So very sad. Elegantly told. But how can we still have this level of poverty and violence in the world?
emmagarvey's review against another edition
informative
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Murder
Moderate: Drug abuse and Adult/minor relationship
mumzy's review against another edition
5.0
Lived this true crime book. It was very sad but I am glad the family finally got justice.
A great read for anyone interested in Australian true crime.
A great read for anyone interested in Australian true crime.
etidae's review against another edition
4.0
Aus true crime, tragic story of mum & daughter assaulted and murdered
• Australian true crime
• triggering content: murder, drug use, sexual abuse
The story - what happened - is so tragic and heart wrenching. It boggles the mind how some people get away with so much before they finally do something that there’s no recovering from - in this case murder. The young mother and child who were murdered are the escalation of a man who brings nothing but destruction to everyone he crosses and harms, victimised and abuses who knows how many people before finally committing murder. He should’ve been put in jail and kept there ages before his path even crossed with them.
That list of children ages names and some locations - police didn’t find connections due to lack of enough info but I bet everything he has done what the list implies.
ANYWAY - this book is well researched with a lot of resources and interviews with personal accounts from those involved and victims and is told in a chronological order of bodies found and them being connected to a cold missing persons case. I think the research the writing style and the storytelling set up is done well and as objectively as it can be done - even though it comes across a little frustrating when everyone involved get their say and you just know what a scum someone in particular is - Grrr.
Ava does this story justice in the way it is told.
• Australian true crime
• triggering content: murder, drug use, sexual abuse
The story - what happened - is so tragic and heart wrenching. It boggles the mind how some people get away with so much before they finally do something that there’s no recovering from - in this case murder. The young mother and child who were murdered are the escalation of a man who brings nothing but destruction to everyone he crosses and harms, victimised and abuses who knows how many people before finally committing murder. He should’ve been put in jail and kept there ages before his path even crossed with them.
That list of children ages names and some locations - police didn’t find connections due to lack of enough info but I bet everything he has done what the list implies.
ANYWAY - this book is well researched with a lot of resources and interviews with personal accounts from those involved and victims and is told in a chronological order of bodies found and them being connected to a cold missing persons case. I think the research the writing style and the storytelling set up is done well and as objectively as it can be done - even though it comes across a little frustrating when everyone involved get their say and you just know what a scum someone in particular is - Grrr.
Ava does this story justice in the way it is told.
kmreader's review against another edition
4.5
A well written book but some very harrowing and sad content of course