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A review by stormlightreader
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door by Hurst Laviana, Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter
informative
fast-paced
3.5
Positives:
- pictures throughout the book rather than a collection of pictures in the middle
- short summary after some victims stating how the spouse or family were impacted down the line
- the info on Dennis Rader (BTK) was good, like Anne Rule's Green River, Running Red, it wasn't unnecessarily detailed and built a clear picture of the crimes and the length of time it took the police to apprehend him
Negatives:
- There was a bunch of pages (approx. 143-179) on the personal lives/impact BTK was having on the detectives (fine with that) and on the authors who are reporters at The Eagle newspaper in Wichita. I really struggled with the authors (reporters) inserting themselves into the narrative more than necessary. It only happened for a relatively short section of the book and it only annoyed me because they did it in third person but it took me out of the narrative and I struggled to get back into it fully.
- pictures throughout the book rather than a collection of pictures in the middle
- short summary after some victims stating how the spouse or family were impacted down the line
- the info on Dennis Rader (BTK) was good, like Anne Rule's Green River, Running Red, it wasn't unnecessarily detailed and built a clear picture of the crimes and the length of time it took the police to apprehend him
Negatives:
- There was a bunch of pages (approx. 143-179) on the personal lives/impact BTK was having on the detectives (fine with that) and on the authors who are reporters at The Eagle newspaper in Wichita. I really struggled with the authors (reporters) inserting themselves into the narrative more than necessary. It only happened for a relatively short section of the book and it only annoyed me because they did it in third person but it took me out of the narrative and I struggled to get back into it fully.