Elisabeth B. (eabdeb8176) reviewed on 7/24/2010 + 10 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

This book is so poorly written and contains many typos, formatting issues,
inaccuracies, and misinformation throughout that I hate to give it even one star.

Words in the middle of sentences are separated by hyphens on many pages.
On Page 267, it mistakenly refers to Sarah (the victim) as Katie (the
perpetrator) when referring to Katie's family's belief that Katie had made several payments to Sarah to adopt her child.

On Page 293, the authors cite a similar case of Lisa Montgomery, who in 2003 murdered a young expectant mother and performed a crude C-section to kidnap her baby. The authors incorrectly state the baby was a boy. This case received massive publicity, yet the authors couldn't even get the baby's gender correct.

Sarah grew up in a trailer park. This fact is pointed out over and over to the point of redundancy. Then to insult our intelligence, one of the authors admonishes the reader with the following homily: "The words "trailer park" trash are part of our common language. In reality, it is unfair to stigmatize anyone who must or chooses to live in a trailer or trailer park. The labeling is cruel and unfair." Duh!!!

These are just a few examples.

The flow of the story is so bad that I have to wonder: Did each of the
authors write a portion of the book in the course of a day or two and then compile it all together with one another to create this mess?

My heart goes out to Sarah. I cannot imagine the ordeal she has suffered,
but I think her story could have been condensed into a feature story in a
good magazine with a decent editor instead of dragged on for over 300
pages.

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