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A review by aced_aro_rose
Lethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka by Nick Pron
4.0
Let me start this by warning you that this is INCREDIBLY disturbing and upsetting [at least for me]. The rape’s and assaults are in great [upsetting] horrific detail.
I was a child when this ‘event’ happened. So I never heard about Homolka or Bernardo until later in life and in passing. Since I’m well into adulthood, I decided to read about the case. Honestly? It’s disturbing.. very upsetting to me that these people and these events happened. And the sheer fuckery that occurred within the police departments to allow Bernardo and Homolka to assault and murder for years.
It was difficult to read the in-depth details about Tammy Homolka, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy’s abuse, rapes and murders.
This book should have had photo’s of the victims, not from a spectacle perspective but from a compassionate one. I had to go online to see their photo’s. It helped me to connect this book to reality more and it harder to finish this book.
This author works overtime to paint Homolka [Karla] in a positive light. Yes, I did see her as a victim, originally [prior to becoming an accomplice]. Now, I do not. Once I went online and learned more about what happened after this book was released [1995] and I became far less sympathetic. It’s hard for me to believe Homolka who’s said to be ‘so’ intelligent, didn’t know how to work mental illnesses to her advantage while on the stand... However, she could have gotten her Psychology degree in jail to help understand her real mental illnesses and mind better.... I don’t know.... Understanding people’s motives is my achilles heel.
Regardless, this book and this case are very disturbing [for me] but I still found it interesting to read since I knew nothing [aside from the killers names] until I read it. I wish that author did more for the memory of the victims and not in an exploitation way.
I was a child when this ‘event’ happened. So I never heard about Homolka or Bernardo until later in life and in passing. Since I’m well into adulthood, I decided to read about the case. Honestly? It’s disturbing.. very upsetting to me that these people and these events happened. And the sheer fuckery that occurred within the police departments to allow Bernardo and Homolka to assault and murder for years.
It was difficult to read the in-depth details about Tammy Homolka, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy’s abuse, rapes and murders.
This book should have had photo’s of the victims, not from a spectacle perspective but from a compassionate one. I had to go online to see their photo’s. It helped me to connect this book to reality more and it harder to finish this book.
This author works overtime to paint Homolka [Karla] in a positive light. Yes, I did see her as a victim, originally [prior to becoming an accomplice]. Now, I do not. Once I went online and learned more about what happened after this book was released [1995] and I became far less sympathetic. It’s hard for me to believe Homolka who’s said to be ‘so’ intelligent, didn’t know how to work mental illnesses to her advantage while on the stand... However, she could have gotten her Psychology degree in jail to help understand her real mental illnesses and mind better.... I don’t know.... Understanding people’s motives is my achilles heel.
Regardless, this book and this case are very disturbing [for me] but I still found it interesting to read since I knew nothing [aside from the killers names] until I read it. I wish that author did more for the memory of the victims and not in an exploitation way.