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samarakroeger 's review for:
The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place
by Kate Summerscale
dark
informative
slow-paced
Where was the editor?
This was so disjointed and jumbled, especially in the second and third part of the book. Summerscale went on so many meaningless tangents in order to dump more information on us that only distracted from the original focus of the book. I don’t actually care about the life stories of the two writers who were there, thanks. If you never give your readers a sense of who a character is and what they’re about, we won’t care what happens beyond the scope of the story. Sorry.
Beyond that, this mostly read like a veeeery long wikipedia article, but with worse organization. The analysis was very surface-level if it occurred at all. Summerscale poses a lot of questions and then doesn’t answer any of them. We’re missing the WHY in order to focus purely on HOW and WHEN. Boring!
This book needed a much tighter focus and something new to actually say. Disappointing. Did the women’s prize only read part one?
This was so disjointed and jumbled, especially in the second and third part of the book. Summerscale went on so many meaningless tangents in order to dump more information on us that only distracted from the original focus of the book. I don’t actually care about the life stories of the two writers who were there, thanks. If you never give your readers a sense of who a character is and what they’re about, we won’t care what happens beyond the scope of the story. Sorry.
Beyond that, this mostly read like a veeeery long wikipedia article, but with worse organization. The analysis was very surface-level if it occurred at all. Summerscale poses a lot of questions and then doesn’t answer any of them. We’re missing the WHY in order to focus purely on HOW and WHEN. Boring!
This book needed a much tighter focus and something new to actually say. Disappointing. Did the women’s prize only read part one?