Amber (berd) reviewed on 11/15/2022 + 214 more book reviews

Sometimes the writing in a book is so detailed that I feel like I have to absorb every word. This book fits that description well. Unfortunately, that made this book a bit of a chore to finish. I definitely liked the story line, but it dragged out at times, and I found myself getting bored quickly. I could only read a few pages at a time so it took me weeks to finally finish this one.

I wanted to know how it would end though, especially knowing it was based off of a true story. It intrigues me to hear what happened in real life that inspired this book, but I felt a bit cheated that the author wouldn't give away the details of the actual crime. I felt like that was a bit strange. Why was that information so secretive?

One of my biggest issues with this book was that I felt like it included random information that wasn't actually important. For instance, there were references to the main character's daughter having issues in school, but I felt like that added nothing to the overall plot. It left me questioning why it was mentioned at all.

Overall, I would give this 2.5 stars. I liked the idea of the book and felt it was fairly well written, but it was very dry and slow moving so I almost lost interest along the way.

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