A review by pbinterrupted
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

i attended pat evangelista's book talk about a week after i visited davao for the first time. it was a harrowing experience, getting to read this book after being told by newfound friends down south about how beloved the dutertes were. 

the person next to me told me that i read at a scarily fast pace—three chapters in, only 25 minutes since we were seated. i couldn't help it; the book was hard to put down. 

sometimes i forget that this ever happened, like it's all some sort of fever dream. but it happened. thank you, pat, for reminding me it did.