A review by snazzymoose
Deviant by Harold Schechter

3.0

It’s definitely interesting. Serial killers always are. But something bugged me about how they portrayed his mother. I’m sure she was no picnic, but she seemed to be the only one in the family able to support them. She ran the businesses and the farm and kept the house and raised the kids. But she’s also the bad guy for being domineering? The dad was an abusive drunk who wouldn’t work. But oddly the psychosis wasn’t his fault. Idk. As a parent, she obviously had a hand in his upbringing, but I just felt it was skewed in her direction. It wasn’t just written as ‘crazy eddy was obsessed with his mother’ it was like ‘his mom really screwed up eddy’.