For me, it was more the characters than anything else- I felt NO compassion for them. I really like this author & have read all his books this is the first one that I disliked. Much of this was conveniently left out expect for the background of Jennifer Jones, which really irritated me. Finally, many of Phelps previous book give background information on the victims and perpetrators so we can sort of get to know them. These are people who are also neutral- those who were given details of the case in order to make their determination. It was pretty clear from early on (and even mentions so in the forward) that he doesn't believe that Bobbi Joe was guilty at all. Secondly, Phelps was NOT neutral in this book. All the author should be doing is giving us the details in a neutral way. It sort of felt like Phelps was trying to convince US about the guilt or innocence of these two girls and that is NOT how a true crime book works. Whoever edited the book should have noticed this because it was unnecessary and quite frankly, took away from everything. Phelps could have easily given us the details in way less than 500 pages had he not constantly repeated what happened. Had the author written the story in about 300 pages it would have worked better. I have read many of this authors true crime books in the past and enjoyed most of them.
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