Helpful Score: 3
I liked this book but I absolutely hated this woman. I don't believe she was insane in any way, shape or form, she was just plain mean and evil. I think the local law enforcement was partly to blame in the deaths of these men but of course they took no accountability for it. It also angered me the way the defense was allowed to smear the names of the innocent dead so they could attempt to prove insanity for their client. The pain the families went through while listening to her bullshit ravings never should have been allowed. I hate that the accused has more rights then the innocent victims, it never fails to anger me.
Helpful Score: 2
This case is twisted and shows once again people standing by when they know something is wrong. Because they do stand by people die. This woman is a nut case. Within the first several pages you knew she had serious mental problems. I am not saying in the legal defense theory (knowing right from wrong) she surely did know. From a layman's point of view I believe she is delusional and a sexual sadist. This combination made a personalty that believed she was designed to rid the world of the "evil men" that came into her life. She took care to conceal her crimes so she did know it was wrong. In her sadistic state she committed them But... in her delusional state she justified them.
I have never found a book that was so difficult to read. Not the story but the structure of the book. There are entire pages with no paragraph breaks. So much information packed into those pages it is hard to process it all and found myself re-reading them. I am sure it is due in part to her ramblings but still it was difficult reading. Especially the trial part. I had to keep setting the book aside and read another I had started just to get a break from the irritation. I am happy I finally finished it. However as another reviewer said it ends without it really being ended.
I have never found a book that was so difficult to read. Not the story but the structure of the book. There are entire pages with no paragraph breaks. So much information packed into those pages it is hard to process it all and found myself re-reading them. I am sure it is due in part to her ramblings but still it was difficult reading. Especially the trial part. I had to keep setting the book aside and read another I had started just to get a break from the irritation. I am happy I finally finished it. However as another reviewer said it ends without it really being ended.
This book was different from your average true crime book, mainly because it involved a female sadist/killer. It kept me interested throughout mainly because it was so bizzarre and unusual. Lots of graphic details and lots of sexual reference. Author has a way of getting you to visualize all the characters in this sick twisted sad and bizzare tale.
