Donna C. (g-ma) reviewed If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood on + 3161 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
JOANNE (joann) -
What a vile, evil woman Shelly Knotek is! Torture, abuse, etc to everyone who she dealt with, including her own children. You will have to read this to learn the truth about the things that happened around this woman. It is a shame that there was never a real trial to put her away forever!
Linda S. (punchbuggy27) reviewed If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood on + 66 more book reviews
I had heard that this was a good book to read, so when a copy became available to me, I got it. Well, turns out I couldn't read the book. It is too painful for me to read it, I dont' want to hear or read about the horrible things a mother did to her children. I got about 50 pages in (mostly background stuff, before the 'mom' was born) and then stopped reading every page. I skimmed the rest of the book and that was enough for me.
