Wow..this book was good and packed a punch! I loved the build-up in the story that sucked me in from the first page..It all seemed so innocent in the beginning, but to watch the unraveling of horror slowly kept me on edge. This book is the second book I have read by this author, but def. not my last...
I can't say I enjoyed this novel as much as that I found it to be very powerful and well written. Brutal subject matter (based on a true story) and excellent craft on the part of Ketchum made this a gripping read, if difficult at times.
This book should be required highschool reading. Forget Knowle's A Separate Peace and Golding's Lord of the Flies. This is the book to read if you want to explore the space between empathy, peer pressure, cruelty, and the turmoil of adolescence.This book tells a fictionalized story of two girls,10(?...
I have to say this is the most disturbing book I have ever read. Its not easy to get to me but this book literally made me sick. It also made me feel guilty for keeping reading. I will admit that I skimmed the last quarter just to see how it ended but I couldnt read anymore of the graphic descrip...
While the reviews of this book were good I did not find it all that gripping. Yes, it was horrifying in its description of what man is capable of doing to his fellow man. What I found more interesting is the herd acceptance of what is right and wrong and the willingness of people to just go along ...
This is a disturbing book and a difficult one to read if you know beforehand how it ends (and it's pretty easy to figure out the outcome from the narrator's early comments).Knowing so much about this book before I picked it up (I read about the real life case it is based upon on crimelibrary.com), I...
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