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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
I expected more from this book than it could deliver. Very disappointing to read of active unsolved murder cases that come across as fiction. At times I wondered if the author just pulled old copies of local newspapers and just wrote from there. The stories didn't flow together in a timeline so it also gets confusing about which missing person is he referring to. Kolker is trying to imply that there was a serial killer operating on Long Island but does a poor job at bring that across. Instead of throwing out random information, he would've done this story a great service by laying out the timeline and the movements of this killer.
While this book was clearly thoroughly researched and well-written, I found myself expecting some conclusion or finale so the book would feel "finished", and I didn't feel that. The background stories on the girls and their families were sad but interesting, but the other aspects of the book felt fairly shallow. Since the person(s) who killed the women hasn't been found, there's no other "side" to the story to be examined, and I felt at times like Kolker was casting around for another perspective or element. If you're interested in true crime, it's certainly worth a read, but I'm not sure it's solid enough to reach across the reader spectrum.
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This book was good, i was so interested to know the girls stories, but once i reached the investigations, i was not interested especially that i know that until now they dono who the killer is, so to me there was no use reading the investigations.
This book was good, i was so interested to know the girls stories, but once i reached the investigations, i was not interested especially that i know that until now they dono who the killer is, so to me there was no use reading the investigations.
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Great journalism into a particularly haunting series of unsolved murder cases
Kind slow. The second half of the book took awhile to get through.
Well told, respectful and compassionate. The victims are treated with dignity and the entire thing is nonbiased.
Fantastic. Well written and love that it is presented with a clear-eyed approach.
I read this because I'm doing a "Diversify Your Reading" challenge and September is "True Crime." This is most definitely not a typical type of book for me because I'm a massive chicken. However, I chose right. This was the true story about 5 sex workers who were murdered, likely by an unknown serial killer, on Long Island between 2007 and 2010. It was compassionately written, well-researched, and did not blame the victims (and called out when others it quoted did). It was not a scary read, which I was worried about, but it was a powerful read.
Update: I just watched the movie and I didn't like it. I was hoping it would focus on the women's lives and humanize them. Instead it focused on Shannan's family and gave a very different impression of her mother than this book gave me.
Update: I just watched the movie and I didn't like it. I was hoping it would focus on the women's lives and humanize them. Instead it focused on Shannan's family and gave a very different impression of her mother than this book gave me.
dark
sad
slow-paced