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Sarah Schmidt
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Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it 7 years ago
This is a fictionalized retelling of the Lizzie Borden murders and though it gets many “meh”reviews, I surprisingly enjoyed it very much. These people are awful! They are selfish, resentful, devious and maddening in their “woe is me” entitled thoughts but I LOVED reading about their misery. And, boy...
Lillelara
Lillelara rated it 8 years ago
Since this a fictional account of the Lizzie Borden murders, I was prepared for violence and gore. But I wasn´t prepared for it being such a disgusting read. And it´s not the descriptions of all the blood and the crushed skulls that makes this novel disgusting, it´s the characters themselves that gr...
All about me
All about me rated it 8 years ago
I really enjoyed this book. I found it claustrophobic, complicated and compelling. I'm torn between thinking Lizzie is mad and bad on one hand and mad and misunderstood on the other. She is certainly in the driving seat in this story and you read it watching the events unfold in her mind. The house ...
fromfirstpagetolast
fromfirstpagetolast rated it 8 years ago
‘Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.’ Or did she? On 4 August 1892 in Falls River, Massachusetts, Andrew Borden and his wife Abby are found murdered in their home, savagely attacked with an axe. But what led to...
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