Elizabeth R. (esjro) - , reviewed on 12/28/2024 + 972 more book reviews

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This book was not what I thought it would be. From the description I expected this memoir to be focused on the crimes committed against the author when she was young and her eventual meeting with the criminal who victimized her. Instead, it was about 20% about the crime and mostly about the psychological and physical abuse she and her siblings endured from their mother and how that affected the author's relationship with her father and the famiy dynamic.

Initially I didn't think the format of each chapter beginning with "In which" would work, but it did. All of the sections except for the final few were brief and jumped between time and topic, but the brevity kept the pages turning.

Readers looking for a true crime memoir may be disappointed, but I found this to be a compelling read despite not being what was advertised.

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