Donna C. (g-ma) reviewed If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood on + 3153 more book reviews
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The story is very horrific but remember IT IS TRUE, after you read the book then please read the last few pages Afterword by Katherine Ramsland, PHD who is a professor of forensic psychology,
then go on and read the acknowledgements by Olsen and he gives more insight to this family and how it effected them
So my 5* rating is for Gregg Olsen writing this true story in a format that is readable, it is written more like a book of fiction but throughout you have to remind yourself that it is a true story and it is told by the girls and later the 3rd 'dad'
Again, IT IS TRUE, and it is horrific to read what this mother did to that family ALL OF THEM and yet she only was sentenced to 22 years in prison not long enough for the horror she put them through
If you don't have the stomach to read it then don't, maybe you can read it like a fiction and forget it is true, but I think it is well written by Olsen
The story is very horrific but remember IT IS TRUE, after you read the book then please read the last few pages Afterword by Katherine Ramsland, PHD who is a professor of forensic psychology,
then go on and read the acknowledgements by Olsen and he gives more insight to this family and how it effected them
So my 5* rating is for Gregg Olsen writing this true story in a format that is readable, it is written more like a book of fiction but throughout you have to remind yourself that it is a true story and it is told by the girls and later the 3rd 'dad'
Again, IT IS TRUE, and it is horrific to read what this mother did to that family ALL OF THEM and yet she only was sentenced to 22 years in prison not long enough for the horror she put them through
If you don't have the stomach to read it then don't, maybe you can read it like a fiction and forget it is true, but I think it is well written by Olsen
