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A Tangled Web: A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice
Leslie Rule
3.69 AVERAGE
91 reviews for:
A Tangled Web: A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice
Leslie Rule
3.69 AVERAGE
I consider myself very lucky to have gotten my hands on an advanced readers copy of A Tangled Web. I am a huge fan of her mothers work, considered by many to be the Queen of true crime novels. I am absolutely not comparing one's work to another. I am simply trying to convey my love and excitement for having received this book.
This review won't be too long. True crime is best when you know the least about it and let the story unfold as you read (or watch). As someone on the outside looking in it was quickly obvious to me as to who was behind the mess. And it was a MESS. I can't say that I liked Dave much....but I would never wish this on anyone.
All in all, I think this was a solid read. I've never read any of Leslie's other work but this has certainly put her on my radar.
This review won't be too long. True crime is best when you know the least about it and let the story unfold as you read (or watch). As someone on the outside looking in it was quickly obvious to me as to who was behind the mess. And it was a MESS. I can't say that I liked Dave much....but I would never wish this on anyone.
All in all, I think this was a solid read. I've never read any of Leslie's other work but this has certainly put her on my radar.
3 stars
This is a fascinating story. Leslie Rule has managed to write a spellbinding account of the horrors these victims went through from murder, stalking, vandalism, fire, and more and it lasted for years. Rule has a knack for true crime just as her mother Ann Rule did.
My only negative about this book is the improper naming of some of the locales where this all played out. I am from this area. The county is Pottawattamie County not Pott County. The school is Westside (one word) not two. If these minor details are wrong, what else did Rule get wrong?
True crime enthusiasts will appreciate this story even if some of the details are incorrect.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley. The views given are my own.
This is a fascinating story. Leslie Rule has managed to write a spellbinding account of the horrors these victims went through from murder, stalking, vandalism, fire, and more and it lasted for years. Rule has a knack for true crime just as her mother Ann Rule did.
My only negative about this book is the improper naming of some of the locales where this all played out. I am from this area. The county is Pottawattamie County not Pott County. The school is Westside (one word) not two. If these minor details are wrong, what else did Rule get wrong?
True crime enthusiasts will appreciate this story even if some of the details are incorrect.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley. The views given are my own.
Imagine splitting from your children’s mother and starting to date again in the digital age of online dating, only to be cyber stalked by an ex who actually is a murderer you’re still seeing. That’s this book.
While I’ve always loved true crime, something about me felt detached from this modern, technology-driven, twenty-teens set crime. Call me old fashioned, but I’ll take a 90’s, less advanced criminology true crime over this nine times out of ten.
While I’ve always loved true crime, something about me felt detached from this modern, technology-driven, twenty-teens set crime. Call me old fashioned, but I’ll take a 90’s, less advanced criminology true crime over this nine times out of ten.
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Cari Lea Farver got a new job and began a new relationship with a man. Unfortunately, her exciting new life updates were short lived when she vanished into thin air in 2012. Police began investigating her disappearance but could not come up with many leads...until they made a surprising connection between her new man, Dave, and his former fling, Liz. Liz Golyer posed as Cari, harassing Dave and everyone else. This case took so many turns it was unreal. I was SHOCKED when I watched the Dateline episode about this. If you are interested in the Dateline reading list...here you go. If you are wanting a true crime book with a curvy road...this is it. I wasn't sure I was going to like this book by the daughter of Ann Rule, but it was not too bad.
This book was hilariously bad. I watched a documentary about this case and wanted to learn more, and A Tangled Web was available as an e-book from my library. It was off to an immediately bad start when Leslie Rule spent pages and pages talking about her mother (Ann Rule, noted true crime writer) but I was able to skip that section easily. I knew I was really in for a doozy when I was reading the introduction and Leslie Rule wrote that the villain in this story was like a black widow spider, but rather than hunting upon a spider's web, she used the WORLD WIDE WEB. See what she did there? Hoo boy.
It got worse. There were so many info dumps throughout this book. Another Goodreads reviewer described feeling a sense of dread anytime a website was mentioned (and I have never related to anything more than this) because they knew Rule would spend the next several pages describing that website. Leslie Rule explains Facebook and all of its functions TWICE in the course of this book. She does the same for dating websites, herpes, and fingerprint databases. She goes on FOREVER about the family histories/genealogy of the major players in this case. Why do we need to know about the ancestors of these victims, who lived 200 years ago? We do not.
It is truly baffling that someone was able to take a true crime case as fascinating and sad as this one and make it boring, and yet here we are.
It got worse. There were so many info dumps throughout this book. Another Goodreads reviewer described feeling a sense of dread anytime a website was mentioned (and I have never related to anything more than this) because they knew Rule would spend the next several pages describing that website. Leslie Rule explains Facebook and all of its functions TWICE in the course of this book. She does the same for dating websites, herpes, and fingerprint databases. She goes on FOREVER about the family histories/genealogy of the major players in this case. Why do we need to know about the ancestors of these victims, who lived 200 years ago? We do not.
It is truly baffling that someone was able to take a true crime case as fascinating and sad as this one and make it boring, and yet here we are.
If you want a book that completely messes with your mind and then unravels everything into a wild but coherent explanation – this is it. Leslie Rule writes with the compassion, understanding and balance of her famous true-crime author mother, Ann Rule. This book untangles a complicated, cruel and deceptive web of one woman who took her mind games too far, murdering another woman and hurting many other people in the process. Cyber crime comes in many forms. Stalking, bullying, scams, and even organized crime groups have found a way to operate online. But Leslie Rule brings us into a world where it hits close to home – and sometimes even closer. While I had figured the suspect out fairly early on, I was not prepared for the depths of these crimes and what this woman went through to get revenge and keep her claws into the man she supposedly loved. While at times it was hard to comprehend what was going on, it gets broken down later in the book into as simple of terms as can be explained. I hope Leslie carries on writing true crime – she has her mother’s flair for it and did Ann very proud.
This woman takes on the mantle of her mom - Anne Rule - and runs with it. Listen. the disdain Leslie has for the subject of this book is absolutely palpable and so so amusing. Like I want to be Leslie's bff she had so much snark and cattiness in her writing! Honestly, she nailed it. Her mother would be proud. Where her mother went a little more pulpy and trashy, Leslie goes cutting and slick. Honestly, loved every moment of this book as proven by how quickly I devoured it.
This is the first true-crime book by the daughter of Ann Rule, Leslie Rule. Ann Rule reigned as the Queen of True-Crime until she passed away in 2015. Leslie is following in her mother's footsteps and this book is one amazing start. In this entry, she profiles the killer, Shanna Elizabeth Golyar, who was only convicted of killing one woman (but probably also killed an infant). Shanna spent three years tormenting her on-again/off-again boyfriend and his ex-wife, and her victim's mother and son by sending them vicious emails, texts, and pretending to stalk all of them. For THREE YEARS. To catch her, the police had to really pull out all the stops and work creatively. Author Leslie Rule deftly writes about Shanna, her boyfriend, and her victim and weaves a story together out of all of the fibers of texts, emails, and connections between everyone. There are a lot of people in this book, a characteristic of books that I'm not fond of because I find it hard to keep everyone straight. But in this case Ms. Rule tells the story in such a way that I was never lost or wondering who was whom. This is a really well-crafted story. And if you are a true-crime fan like me, you have got to read this. It is so good.