A review by tilda_bookworm
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

2.0

At points Rule was overly flattering towards Bundy (she described him as handsome about 100 times - I didn't count but every 5 pages seems about right! - and vastly exaggerated his intelligence). I thought the actual friendship was over-egged as well; it seemed to be mostly a business transaction, although that would be true of anybody plus a psychopath. The book could have done with a good edit. Way too long with repetition and unnecessary details, like a whole paragraph just full of journalists names, something only a journalist would care to include. I managed to read the whole book and I was gripped, but I don't know if that is just because of the morbid, twisted draw of true crime and the delusion that if we consume it we'll somehow be better prepared/protected, rather than anything the author did.