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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
For the CSI and Dateline obsessed! This book sucked me in from page 1. Excellent writing and reporting, and is sufficiently creepy (enough for me to get spooked being home alone sometimes). The best part is the first few chapters which describe the turbulent lives of the victims. The parts about the police I investigation are also compelling. Made me want to know more.
Couldn't put it down. But I hate an unsolved mystery! HOpe they catch the creep and he writes a book about that.
Listened to this as an audiobook and kept losing track of the people involved, the families and their relationships to the victims and to each other.
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
I enjoyed the first half of the book - which was the stories of each of the five "lost girls" - more than I enjoyed the second half - which was the story of the investigation. I found that the investigation piece felt very long and very repetitive. However, the individual stories of each woman were very powerful; society loves to treat sex workers as "less than" and this book provided a fascinating narrative of what drew each woman into sex work.
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
I enjoyed this book but it’s lighter on the actual investigation than most true crime, and I could do with less delving into family dramas tangentially related to the case.
The first part of this book read like fiction, and the last part like the best kind of true crime podcast. This heart-breaking story was not an easy read by any stretch, but Kolker does make it a great one. Through the way these stories were shared, I felt like I was getting to know each girl, family member, and suspect.
The story of what happened to Amber, Melissa, Maureen, Megan, and Shannan needs to be shared. Time and again we hear of women who went missing and the police brushed it off because the women were sex workers. This book shows that it isn’t always by choice, and it absolutely never makes someone less human and less deserving of justice. These girls when missing between 2007-2010 and their families still have no answers. Whether or not the police did their best is not my call to make, but there is time. People know what happened to these women. They don’t just disappear. Everyone needs to read this story, because this demographic is highly targeted for crime and highly stereotyped and disregarded. You can’t read this book and not come away feeling like these girls deserved so much more. Thousands have stories just like this that aren’t being written into books or Netflix shows, and we need to educate ourselves on what’s happening. Reading Lost Girls is a great first step.
The story of what happened to Amber, Melissa, Maureen, Megan, and Shannan needs to be shared. Time and again we hear of women who went missing and the police brushed it off because the women were sex workers. This book shows that it isn’t always by choice, and it absolutely never makes someone less human and less deserving of justice. These girls when missing between 2007-2010 and their families still have no answers. Whether or not the police did their best is not my call to make, but there is time. People know what happened to these women. They don’t just disappear. Everyone needs to read this story, because this demographic is highly targeted for crime and highly stereotyped and disregarded. You can’t read this book and not come away feeling like these girls deserved so much more. Thousands have stories just like this that aren’t being written into books or Netflix shows, and we need to educate ourselves on what’s happening. Reading Lost Girls is a great first step.
This book dragged on too long for me and while good, it just wasn’t really my kind of read. I had heard about the Long Island killings from one of my friends and so when I saw this, I thought it would be interesting to read. And while at times interesting, it just really really dove into the families and the individuals and centered a lot on prostitution since all the victims were prostitutes.