Helpful Score: 2
Very repetitive, somewhat boring, completely one-sided. Phelps strongly believes that one of the people convicted was 'innocent' of actual physical involvement in the murder of a scuzzy exploiter of young girls. He also seems to believe the woman is innocent of planning. In the drug-fueled world in which the two lesbians involved lived it is hard to tell what is going on. The book doesn't help sort that out and doesn't present all the facts I think. It does endlessly repeat, recycle, and backtrack until one becomes thoroughly tired of hearing how one girl is afraid of being 'raped' (although both had willingly been filmed having sex with the victim and with numerous other druggies. Needlessly unclear, it is basically a catalog of driving from one drug site to another 'getting her stuff' or 'looking for so and so.' Hard to develop much sympathy for dead victim or imprisoned 'victims.' I thought it was well beneath Phelps' usual efforts.
