Grab A Knife In The Heart Composed By Michael Benson Digital
aboutpages in and Im fairly certain a new teenager is thrown into the plot about every two pages, Soooo I just figure out who one is just in time for someone else to be thrown into the picture, And there really isnt any intro info its just BAM new chick making bad decisions BAM whos this guy hanging around Even the attorneys are getting the names mixed up during testimony.
Im just pretending I know whats going on until the actual crime occurs otherwise its a story about a ridiculous teenager constantly running away, The police are very active in the scenario though so theres that
I swear to baby Jesus if one more attorney says”use your common sense” in closing argument Im going to throw the book.
I CANNOT STAND that. Its disrespectful as far as Im concerned, If Im ever picked for jury duty there will be no way either side would want me in one of those seats if for no other reason than my resting bitch face.
The "baby momma" is one of my besties! This was decent, that is all. For me, I enjoy true crime,
however, I need some suspense and less courtroom, The crime is played out in the firstpages and then what else is there to say but back story, I prefer to begin with backstory and work my way forward, however not every read likes the story that way, This was sooo boring I basically skimmed half of the book, There are so many players it is hard to keep them all straight, A young girl gets stabbed over a boy, They know right away who did it so half the book is the investigation and the other half is word for word court room drama that is basically a repetition of the investigation.
Very little background information on any of the kids, If you read the first few chapters you pretty much will know everything that happens in this book, I loved this book I felt I like the author was talking to me about the crime and that is what I call a good book, Excellent This book was part of a trilogy ofof Michael benson's true crime books,
Book: Watch Mommy Die
Book: A Killer's Touch
Book: A Knife in The Heart
This book was confusing and jumping in time which I hate.
As most that know me on Goodreads know I prefer my true crime is written in chronological order, If you need to begin with the crime please call that chapter a prologue and let chapterbegin with where it all happened, birth whatever.
Most of the true crime books I read I do not know anything about the case which is the way I like it but being a member of a true crime group and sometimes I also enjoy to watch a documentary, I sometimes begin to read and slowly it dawns on me I have watched a doc or read stuff about it.
This was so with this case,
I had watched a documentary Snapped and heard Rachel talk about this,
Weirdly enough when i began reading I thought the other girl was the murderer but alas the author immediately spoiled everything so I knew it was not her but she was the killer.
He tells of fights between the girls but I had a hard time remembering all the names and who was friends with who,
To me it felt like all those people involved were scumbags and their parents let them run loose,
I never got into this book, IF you can keep track of all of the people in this book, it's okay, However I found myself constantly going, "Who was this again!" The parents of these kids, . . wow. I do not know whether to feel bad, or wonder why they didn't do more, I was almost enraged, really, at how careless and stupid they were fighting over a kid who, by all accounts, sounds like a loser and had really nothing going for him.
Well researched, well written. My least favourite by this author so far, It got VERY laborious and hardgoing and I struggled with picking my Kindle up and dipping back into it, A lot of it got very repetitive as well,
His other books didn't have the amount of errors this one has, either, Not sure what's going on with him but it's pretty messy,
Twice he used enflamedd instead of inflamed, there were fullstops missing, spaces in words not needing themlike Charlottes ville or Hane wicz or smart phones, Then the author mentions the lawyer asking Sarah a question at trialhe'd have had a job !! Yet the author pointed out the lawyers kept mixing up the kids' names!! He mentions someone being slightly coiledusually tightly in my experience.
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I thought Rachel's family were an odd bunch, No wonder she was a headcase with them calling the police everyminutes each time she was late or out for a night with friends, I imagine the police were sick to death of hearing from them !! I hated that all the kids who were white in the main were teens that persist in talking like little black gangstas'.
I hate that sort of speech they use, thinking they're "hard" when they just look like idiots, It's the same with the youngsters over here as well as in America,
This little gang all seemed to be having sex and babies within their group as well, . sharing each other around. All a bit unsavoury if you ask me, It could easily have been any one of them stabbed that fateful night since they all fought with each other !! Sarah was as much of a flake, really, as Rachel was.
It was pretty jawdropping that the object of the girls' affections, Josh, had to ask which month was the third one, believing it to be August !! Sarah was wasted on this fool for sure.
A rising true crime star is sure to keep readers riveted with this deadly saga of two naive young women, conflicting lives, tangled sexual affairs, and the high price of having the right feelings for the wrong guy.
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