This is a book that covers a part of society that most people dont know exists. Street families. Not necessarily homeless people, people who choose to live on the streets due to "abusive relationships in the home" or various other reasons. Most say they were raped or abused by parents, kicked out by their parents, or simply just left a difficult situation.
This book follows street families in Portland, Oregon. The main family the book follows is a group called simply, "The Family". It consisted of several members who are usually between the ages of early teens, 13 or 14, to older members who can range all the way up to 26.
Rene delves into these kids minds and follows their stories that seem innocent during the day, but by night, these kids are very, very dangerous. There are several instances where someone in the street family offended someone else, and the entire culture turned against them. The punishment can vary from a simple "taxing" (taking objects valuable to the taxee), to a beating to even death.
The last part of the book covers the story of a mentally disable young woman who befriended these kids. She thought it was all innocent fun, but then she soon found out that they can turn on loved ones as easily as a winter storm.
This last case is heartwrenching and horribly sad. This was the only book I have ever read that actually had me waking up at night. It was mindboggling and just didn't seem like this kind of culture could exist right under our noses.
If you want to see into the darker side of our society, then read this book. Good luck finding anything online that explains any of it though. I haven't found anything. Some pictures, but nothing about the culture itself.
Next book review: A wonderful book by John Walsh called "No Mercy".
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The Cases That Haunt Us by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
This book covers several cases from Jack the Ripper to the still unsolved JonBenet Ramsey murder.
All in all, it was a very interesting book. The author essentially profiles all the crimes scenes to tell us what kind of person could have commited the murders. It's very interesting but I cannot post too much about it without giving it all away.
The first part about Jack the Ripper is slightly confusing, but you get the gist of it. He goes through all the suspects and gives reasons they could have done it and reasons they couldn't have done it. His last suspect, (the person I thought could have done it), fits his profile perfectly. But alas, since it's been over 100 years since the murders, we will never know.
He covers the Lizzie Borden killings, which if anyone has researched it will realize that Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the crime, even though there was plenty of evidence to support that she commited the crimes, but they never found the ax that her mother and father were killed with and without a murder weapon the prosecution kindof falls apart. I know Lizzie killed her parents. There's no doubt about that. But alas, we cannot solve this one either.
The Lindbergh Kidnapping is one I had heard of but never looked into. It was a very interesting read and at the end, I found I agreed with the author on his verdict. The man charged with the kidnapping and killing of the Lindbergh baby was not working alone, but the people and police were satisfied with convicting just one man that they didn't look for the rest of his group. Now, I'm not saying that he didn't do it, but I'm sure that he wasn't working alone. He was a german carpenter named Hauptmann.
The Zodiac Killer. This one could have a post all on it's own. This killer was never identified or caught and all the murders remain unsolved to this day. I am currently looking for a book that covers the Zodiac more than this one did, but I can tell you about it a bit. The Zodiac enjoyed shooting couples in their cars and he usually would go to the passenger side of the car and shoot into the car. One man survived the Zodiacs attempted killing, and described him as being in his early 20's, 200 lbs, 5'8", brown crew cut hair. He wore a rain coat like those in the navy and pleated pants. The Zodiac murders remain unsolved.
This book touches slightly on the Black Dahlia murder and the Boston Strangler.
The ending chapter is about the JonBenet Ramsey murder. It was a hard chapter for me to read as I have a niece thats almost 3, but after debating with myself back and forth, I finally gave in and read it. It was a read that was well worth it. You get details from the case in this chapter that you didn't get in the news reports and, actually, the news reports were quite misleading anyway. They automatically assumed that the parents were responsible, but where she was discovered and how she was discovered was in direct contrast to the profile. I am not going to divulge much of the information from this chapter, but I would suggest that you read this one and make the answers for yourself, but take into account the evidence.
Follow the evidence and make the theories fit the evidence. That's the most important part. People have a tendency to make the evidence fit the theory, but that doesn't work and has led many people to the wrong conclusions. Stick with the evidence and facts.
All in all, it was a very interesting book. The author essentially profiles all the crimes scenes to tell us what kind of person could have commited the murders. It's very interesting but I cannot post too much about it without giving it all away.
The first part about Jack the Ripper is slightly confusing, but you get the gist of it. He goes through all the suspects and gives reasons they could have done it and reasons they couldn't have done it. His last suspect, (the person I thought could have done it), fits his profile perfectly. But alas, since it's been over 100 years since the murders, we will never know.
He covers the Lizzie Borden killings, which if anyone has researched it will realize that Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the crime, even though there was plenty of evidence to support that she commited the crimes, but they never found the ax that her mother and father were killed with and without a murder weapon the prosecution kindof falls apart. I know Lizzie killed her parents. There's no doubt about that. But alas, we cannot solve this one either.
The Lindbergh Kidnapping is one I had heard of but never looked into. It was a very interesting read and at the end, I found I agreed with the author on his verdict. The man charged with the kidnapping and killing of the Lindbergh baby was not working alone, but the people and police were satisfied with convicting just one man that they didn't look for the rest of his group. Now, I'm not saying that he didn't do it, but I'm sure that he wasn't working alone. He was a german carpenter named Hauptmann.
The Zodiac Killer. This one could have a post all on it's own. This killer was never identified or caught and all the murders remain unsolved to this day. I am currently looking for a book that covers the Zodiac more than this one did, but I can tell you about it a bit. The Zodiac enjoyed shooting couples in their cars and he usually would go to the passenger side of the car and shoot into the car. One man survived the Zodiacs attempted killing, and described him as being in his early 20's, 200 lbs, 5'8", brown crew cut hair. He wore a rain coat like those in the navy and pleated pants. The Zodiac murders remain unsolved.
This book touches slightly on the Black Dahlia murder and the Boston Strangler.
The ending chapter is about the JonBenet Ramsey murder. It was a hard chapter for me to read as I have a niece thats almost 3, but after debating with myself back and forth, I finally gave in and read it. It was a read that was well worth it. You get details from the case in this chapter that you didn't get in the news reports and, actually, the news reports were quite misleading anyway. They automatically assumed that the parents were responsible, but where she was discovered and how she was discovered was in direct contrast to the profile. I am not going to divulge much of the information from this chapter, but I would suggest that you read this one and make the answers for yourself, but take into account the evidence.
Follow the evidence and make the theories fit the evidence. That's the most important part. People have a tendency to make the evidence fit the theory, but that doesn't work and has led many people to the wrong conclusions. Stick with the evidence and facts.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Killer Book of True Crime by Tom Philbin and Michael Philbin
Another book by Tom Philbin and Michael Philbin.
The Killer Book of True Crime by Tom Philbin and Michael Philbin
This book covers everything from Homicide, Rape and Mass Murder to the more mundane crimes like car theft and arson. I found the whole thing very informative and very interesting. (Having always been interested in Criminal Justice, this book was right up my alley. I think I will go buy the book for myself!)
I wanted to cover some interesting things I found in the book:
The Brinks Job
The Brinks Job was one of the best planned and best executed bank robberies of all time. On January 17, 1950, seven armed thieves in Boston made off with $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders, and other securities. The Job took seventeen minutes and the FBI spent $29 million investigating it.
The mastermind of the group who concocted the whole thing was Anthony "Fats" Pino. It took eighteen months to plan out and they made twenty-seven trips to the Brinks building complex and made copies of keys from the lock cylinders. They took the cylinders, made a key, then returned the cylinders before they were missed.
When they entered the building on January 17th, they got to the counting room easily due to the fact that they had keys and had on chauffeurs uniforms and bizarre masks so they could not be easily identified. In fact, it would be 5 years and 361 days before they were caught.
One of the robbers, "Specs" O'Keefe had entrusted his $90,000 of his share to a fellow thief and when he asked for it back, the other man wouldn't give it to him. O'Keefe threatened to go to the cops if he wasn't paid. Pino and others reacted by hiring Elmer "Trigger" Burke, a New York hitman, to "clip" O'Keefe. He was unsuccessful and O'Keefe went to the authorities. They were all arrested only 5 days before the statute of limitations would have expired. All they had to do was wait 5 more days.
We have already covered Serial Killers in my previous posting. But they are nonetheless extremely interesting.
Mass Murderers
The difference between Mass Murderers and Serial Killers is that mass murderers kill several people (sometimes large crowds) at one time. Serial Killers kill 3 or more people over the course of a year or more.
Some infamous Mass Murderers are:
-Ronald DeFoe Jr. who murdered his entire family in their sleep on the early morning of November 13, 1974. The real Amityville Horror had taken place. He shot his entire family: his mother, his father, his two brothers and his two sisters. They were all found in the same position: lying face down in there beds, faces in the pillows.
-Howard Unruh was a soldier in WWII who after being discharged return to his home town of Camden, New Jersey. He had a shooting gallery in his basement that he used quite often and practiced regularly with several knives he had. On September 6, 1946 something finally broke inside him and while walking the streets of Camden, he randomly shot to death anyone who was around. He killed 13 people in a matter of minutes.
-On July 21, 1984, James Oliver Huberty walked into a McDonalds near the Mexican border on Interstate Highway 5 in San Ysidro, California. He was carrying an Uzi, a shotgun and a pistol, the weapons in plain sight. Then he began shooting at anything that moved: children, men and women, and didn't stop until SWAT picked him off over an hour later. The final toll was twenty-one dead, including Huberty, and thirty adults and children injured.
-On July 14, 1966 in Chicago in a place called Jeffrey Manor, eight nurses were found killed in their apartment. At 6 in the morning Mrs. Freda Windmiller heard what she thought was screaming. She got dressed to investigate. Meanwhile Robert Hall, walking his dog, heard the screams and rushed to where they were coming from.
When Hall and Windmiller got there, they saw a young, dark skinned woman crouching on a ledge outside of a second story window, screaming for help and speaking in half broken english. They were afraid that she would jump and convinced her to go back through the window through the house.
When the officers arrived on the scene, they discovered eight young nurses in the apartment, all stabbed several times. The girl had escaped being killed by hiding under the bed until the killer left, then she waited for hours to make sure he had gone and then climbed out onto the ledge and started screaming.
Their names are:
Pamela Wilkening, twenty years old, stabbed in the left breast but then finally strangled by a bed sheet.
Mary Ann Jordan, twenty years old, stabbed three times in the neck, breast and eye.
Suzanne Farris, twenty-one years old, stabbed eighteen times in the back, neck and chin. She was also sexually assaulted.
Nina Schmele, twenty-four years old, stabbed in the neck and then strangled.
Valentina Pasion, twenty-three years old, stabbed in the neck.
Merlita Gargullo, twenty-two years old, stabbed and strangled.
Patricia Matusek, who was twenty years old. (Its not said how she died, but I figure she was stabbed as well.
Gloria Davy, who was twenty-three years old. The killer paid special attention to her.
The book also covers criminal investigation, rape, terrorism, theft, death row, prison, stalking, female killers, arson and much more. It's a great read if this is what your interested in, but still very informative if your just looking for a specific topic. I will be buying this book for myself as soon as I get money and can buy it.
Again, anything by the Philbin brothers is a great read. Recommend it. :)
The Killer Book of True Crime by Tom Philbin and Michael Philbin
This book covers everything from Homicide, Rape and Mass Murder to the more mundane crimes like car theft and arson. I found the whole thing very informative and very interesting. (Having always been interested in Criminal Justice, this book was right up my alley. I think I will go buy the book for myself!)
I wanted to cover some interesting things I found in the book:
The Brinks Job
The Brinks Job was one of the best planned and best executed bank robberies of all time. On January 17, 1950, seven armed thieves in Boston made off with $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders, and other securities. The Job took seventeen minutes and the FBI spent $29 million investigating it.
The mastermind of the group who concocted the whole thing was Anthony "Fats" Pino. It took eighteen months to plan out and they made twenty-seven trips to the Brinks building complex and made copies of keys from the lock cylinders. They took the cylinders, made a key, then returned the cylinders before they were missed.
When they entered the building on January 17th, they got to the counting room easily due to the fact that they had keys and had on chauffeurs uniforms and bizarre masks so they could not be easily identified. In fact, it would be 5 years and 361 days before they were caught.
One of the robbers, "Specs" O'Keefe had entrusted his $90,000 of his share to a fellow thief and when he asked for it back, the other man wouldn't give it to him. O'Keefe threatened to go to the cops if he wasn't paid. Pino and others reacted by hiring Elmer "Trigger" Burke, a New York hitman, to "clip" O'Keefe. He was unsuccessful and O'Keefe went to the authorities. They were all arrested only 5 days before the statute of limitations would have expired. All they had to do was wait 5 more days.
We have already covered Serial Killers in my previous posting. But they are nonetheless extremely interesting.
Mass Murderers
The difference between Mass Murderers and Serial Killers is that mass murderers kill several people (sometimes large crowds) at one time. Serial Killers kill 3 or more people over the course of a year or more.
Some infamous Mass Murderers are:
-Ronald DeFoe Jr. who murdered his entire family in their sleep on the early morning of November 13, 1974. The real Amityville Horror had taken place. He shot his entire family: his mother, his father, his two brothers and his two sisters. They were all found in the same position: lying face down in there beds, faces in the pillows.
-Howard Unruh was a soldier in WWII who after being discharged return to his home town of Camden, New Jersey. He had a shooting gallery in his basement that he used quite often and practiced regularly with several knives he had. On September 6, 1946 something finally broke inside him and while walking the streets of Camden, he randomly shot to death anyone who was around. He killed 13 people in a matter of minutes.
-On July 21, 1984, James Oliver Huberty walked into a McDonalds near the Mexican border on Interstate Highway 5 in San Ysidro, California. He was carrying an Uzi, a shotgun and a pistol, the weapons in plain sight. Then he began shooting at anything that moved: children, men and women, and didn't stop until SWAT picked him off over an hour later. The final toll was twenty-one dead, including Huberty, and thirty adults and children injured.
-On July 14, 1966 in Chicago in a place called Jeffrey Manor, eight nurses were found killed in their apartment. At 6 in the morning Mrs. Freda Windmiller heard what she thought was screaming. She got dressed to investigate. Meanwhile Robert Hall, walking his dog, heard the screams and rushed to where they were coming from.
When Hall and Windmiller got there, they saw a young, dark skinned woman crouching on a ledge outside of a second story window, screaming for help and speaking in half broken english. They were afraid that she would jump and convinced her to go back through the window through the house.
When the officers arrived on the scene, they discovered eight young nurses in the apartment, all stabbed several times. The girl had escaped being killed by hiding under the bed until the killer left, then she waited for hours to make sure he had gone and then climbed out onto the ledge and started screaming.
Their names are:
Pamela Wilkening, twenty years old, stabbed in the left breast but then finally strangled by a bed sheet.
Mary Ann Jordan, twenty years old, stabbed three times in the neck, breast and eye.
Suzanne Farris, twenty-one years old, stabbed eighteen times in the back, neck and chin. She was also sexually assaulted.
Nina Schmele, twenty-four years old, stabbed in the neck and then strangled.
Valentina Pasion, twenty-three years old, stabbed in the neck.
Merlita Gargullo, twenty-two years old, stabbed and strangled.
Patricia Matusek, who was twenty years old. (Its not said how she died, but I figure she was stabbed as well.
Gloria Davy, who was twenty-three years old. The killer paid special attention to her.
The book also covers criminal investigation, rape, terrorism, theft, death row, prison, stalking, female killers, arson and much more. It's a great read if this is what your interested in, but still very informative if your just looking for a specific topic. I will be buying this book for myself as soon as I get money and can buy it.
Again, anything by the Philbin brothers is a great read. Recommend it. :)
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Killer Book of Serial Killers
This book, written by Tom Philbin and Michael Philbin, is a goldmine of some of the worst serial killers out there, such as John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, and many more.
The first chapter in the book, however, is about Albert Fish and his kidnapping, and subsequent consumption of, 9-year-old Grace Budd in 1928. Yes, he cannibalized her. Sick bastard.
Ted Bundy
It's no wonder all the women went with him, he was rather good looking! He liked women with long dark hair, parted in the middle. He would feign an injury and ask the unsuspecting woman for help. She obliges and walks with him to his VW. He layed the back seat of his car flat and hid a tire iron behind the seats. When a woman came with him, he would take out the tire iron, knock the woman unconsious, and then take her to a wooded area, kill her then rape her. Nice eh?
Authorities estimate that, conservatively, he has killed over forty women. They will never know for sure because dead bodies dont talk and Ted Bundy was sent to the electric chair on January 25, 1989.
John Wayne Gacy
It is said that the most dangerous position a young boy could be in was with John Wayne Gacy in his home.
He had a home with a crawl space underneath it, and occasionally he would torture and kill a young boy and bury his body beneath his house in the crawl space. His neighbors started to complain about the smell, which Gacy had claimed was sewage problems, just like everyone else had.
When officers discovered the bodies, they discovered that Gacy had covered the bodies with lime to hasten decomposition. They discovered 27 bodies and Gacy confessed to five more.
Gacy was executed May 10, 1994 by lethal injection.
David Berkowitz
The Son of Sam
David Berkowitz was convinced demons were talking to him, and they wanted blood. They instructed him to drive the streets or wander the malls/clubs until they saw a victim that they liked. Then he would walk up to them and shoot them, usually people or couples in their cars. The demons liked long dark haired women.
Near the end, the demons told him to go on a shooting spree in a campground in Southampton, Long Island. Luck was with those on the island as it had started to rain, then downpour. Berkowitz decided to pull over and wait it out. Soon however, the demons told him to go home, the rain had cleared out too many prospects. When he got home, the demons criticized him on his inability to complete the mission. They told him he had to die. The police had finally discovered who was behind the killings because of a traffic ticket.
Soon, every available officer surrounded his house. When he was arrested, he just looked at them and smiled. Like it was all just a game.
I enjoyed reading the book and learning about the different serial killers. I did not enjoy reading the Albert Fish story, because I dont much like cannabalism, and they only focused on one victim: Grace Budd. To be a serial killer, you must have killed at least three people and the killings must be over a long period of time, 1.5 years at least.
I just finished their first book: The Killer Book of True Crime, and I will post the fascinating facts and stories of the book soon. I want to own these books for myself. Happy Reading!
The first chapter in the book, however, is about Albert Fish and his kidnapping, and subsequent consumption of, 9-year-old Grace Budd in 1928. Yes, he cannibalized her. Sick bastard.
Ted Bundy
It's no wonder all the women went with him, he was rather good looking! He liked women with long dark hair, parted in the middle. He would feign an injury and ask the unsuspecting woman for help. She obliges and walks with him to his VW. He layed the back seat of his car flat and hid a tire iron behind the seats. When a woman came with him, he would take out the tire iron, knock the woman unconsious, and then take her to a wooded area, kill her then rape her. Nice eh?
Authorities estimate that, conservatively, he has killed over forty women. They will never know for sure because dead bodies dont talk and Ted Bundy was sent to the electric chair on January 25, 1989.
John Wayne Gacy
It is said that the most dangerous position a young boy could be in was with John Wayne Gacy in his home.
He had a home with a crawl space underneath it, and occasionally he would torture and kill a young boy and bury his body beneath his house in the crawl space. His neighbors started to complain about the smell, which Gacy had claimed was sewage problems, just like everyone else had.
When officers discovered the bodies, they discovered that Gacy had covered the bodies with lime to hasten decomposition. They discovered 27 bodies and Gacy confessed to five more.
Gacy was executed May 10, 1994 by lethal injection.
David Berkowitz
The Son of Sam
David Berkowitz was convinced demons were talking to him, and they wanted blood. They instructed him to drive the streets or wander the malls/clubs until they saw a victim that they liked. Then he would walk up to them and shoot them, usually people or couples in their cars. The demons liked long dark haired women.
Near the end, the demons told him to go on a shooting spree in a campground in Southampton, Long Island. Luck was with those on the island as it had started to rain, then downpour. Berkowitz decided to pull over and wait it out. Soon however, the demons told him to go home, the rain had cleared out too many prospects. When he got home, the demons criticized him on his inability to complete the mission. They told him he had to die. The police had finally discovered who was behind the killings because of a traffic ticket.
Soon, every available officer surrounded his house. When he was arrested, he just looked at them and smiled. Like it was all just a game.
I enjoyed reading the book and learning about the different serial killers. I did not enjoy reading the Albert Fish story, because I dont much like cannabalism, and they only focused on one victim: Grace Budd. To be a serial killer, you must have killed at least three people and the killings must be over a long period of time, 1.5 years at least.
I just finished their first book: The Killer Book of True Crime, and I will post the fascinating facts and stories of the book soon. I want to own these books for myself. Happy Reading!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Hey
Hello to anyone who actually reads this blog. (Of which there are none.) But anywho, due to some rules put in place at my work we are no longer allowed to have books on post. They came out of the blue. We cant have books, magazines, newspapers, cell phones, any kind of game or craft, etc. We never let them get in the way of our job before and the boss knew it. He said it was all okay. Until monday. So, this will be getting very slow from now on.
Whats sad is, that I have to sneak my journal into the post so I can write at lunch. Thank God he never comes at lunch! (Hey, we aren't even supposed to take lunch, but we do anyway.)
So, no books of any kind, no games, no making things, no cell phones, etc. Fun fun stuff. Not even on holidays when the doors are locked and the whole place is shut down. Not even then.
So, like I said, this will be slowing down quite a bit as I try to find time to read. Sorry to the ghosts that read this.
Whats sad is, that I have to sneak my journal into the post so I can write at lunch. Thank God he never comes at lunch! (Hey, we aren't even supposed to take lunch, but we do anyway.)
So, no books of any kind, no games, no making things, no cell phones, etc. Fun fun stuff. Not even on holidays when the doors are locked and the whole place is shut down. Not even then.
So, like I said, this will be slowing down quite a bit as I try to find time to read. Sorry to the ghosts that read this.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
This book is a book about two boys and a carnival where things are not as they seem.
The house of mirrors shows you who you really are, the carousel plays the calliope backwards while in reverse, and the freaks are not who they seem to be.
Written so it takes place over just two or three days, it's not a slow read. It's well written in the classic Bradbury style.
I like how the story seems to be that eventually you become your sins and your doings. It's not a big part, but it is a part.
Now, I would like to see this in movie form. I hear that there is a movie out there, but I have yet to see it.
Anywho, sorry for this short and sparse review, but all I can say is I loved it! Who doesn't like Bradbury? I mean really?
The house of mirrors shows you who you really are, the carousel plays the calliope backwards while in reverse, and the freaks are not who they seem to be.
Written so it takes place over just two or three days, it's not a slow read. It's well written in the classic Bradbury style.
I like how the story seems to be that eventually you become your sins and your doings. It's not a big part, but it is a part.
Now, I would like to see this in movie form. I hear that there is a movie out there, but I have yet to see it.
Anywho, sorry for this short and sparse review, but all I can say is I loved it! Who doesn't like Bradbury? I mean really?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Horse Stone House by Harold K. Moon
Okay, I picked up this book from the library because, honestly, I wanted something new to read and thought this would be a good try. (I strayed away from my genre...)
I hated the book. I'll tell you what it's about, then I'll tell you why I hated it.
The story takes place in the early years of the LDS church, over in England. Its the story of Lydia and her friend Emmeline, who confides in Lydia that she is reading a book from a new religious sect: The Book of Mormon.
When she tells Lydia she believes it, Lydia dismisses her outright and asks her to come to her senses and forget the book. Emmeline cant do that and continues to read the book, all the while hiding it from her other friends, family and especially her husband.
When Lydia takes up the challenge to read the book and once and for all prove to Emmeline that it's not real, but it doesnt go according to her plan.
Without spoiling the ending for those of you who probably wont read it anyway, here's what I didn't like about it:
-Not enough character/plot development.
-Told me what was happening instead of "showing" me.
-The ending is weak and the conversations didn't flow naturally.
-And, although this could be my fault, it was a little hard to read. (Probably due to my speaking american and not english... crazy redneck family...)
It seems to be a trend that in LDS fiction that they make the book as slow as possible, force conversations, weaken plotlines, and break up the flow of the book. Can anyone name a good LDS book of this genre that isnt any of the above?
I hated the book. I'll tell you what it's about, then I'll tell you why I hated it.
The story takes place in the early years of the LDS church, over in England. Its the story of Lydia and her friend Emmeline, who confides in Lydia that she is reading a book from a new religious sect: The Book of Mormon.
When she tells Lydia she believes it, Lydia dismisses her outright and asks her to come to her senses and forget the book. Emmeline cant do that and continues to read the book, all the while hiding it from her other friends, family and especially her husband.
When Lydia takes up the challenge to read the book and once and for all prove to Emmeline that it's not real, but it doesnt go according to her plan.
Without spoiling the ending for those of you who probably wont read it anyway, here's what I didn't like about it:
-Not enough character/plot development.
-Told me what was happening instead of "showing" me.
-The ending is weak and the conversations didn't flow naturally.
-And, although this could be my fault, it was a little hard to read. (Probably due to my speaking american and not english... crazy redneck family...)
It seems to be a trend that in LDS fiction that they make the book as slow as possible, force conversations, weaken plotlines, and break up the flow of the book. Can anyone name a good LDS book of this genre that isnt any of the above?
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