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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & the Trial of the Century
by Sarah Miller
This is the first true crime book I've read and I've also never heard anything about the Borden murders before. I loved this book and couldn't put it down.
Reading it, it didn't strike me as particularly for a younger audience, though it is labeled ya (maybe that helped it be less graphic?). While the content matter was naturally disturbing (since two people were butchered) and the book didn't shy away from describing those deaths, I never found it disturbing. The descriptions felt distanced to me, not as graphic.
I loved the neutral way the case was presented. I did feel really frustrated at the way the case was so poorly handled (meaning we will probably never know for sure who did it) but it was a very interesting case. I felt it was presented very well.
Reading it, it didn't strike me as particularly for a younger audience, though it is labeled ya (maybe that helped it be less graphic?). While the content matter was naturally disturbing (since two people were butchered) and the book didn't shy away from describing those deaths, I never found it disturbing. The descriptions felt distanced to me, not as graphic.
I loved the neutral way the case was presented. I did feel really frustrated at the way the case was so poorly handled (meaning we will probably never know for sure who did it) but it was a very interesting case. I felt it was presented very well.