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True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

3 reviews

lesemaresi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Loved it. Loved the concept of the book and how it was written/ how the author incorporated himself into the book. Felt like a true crime documentary. I was an Easy and fast read. I couldn’t stop ready because there were So many turns of event but that also made it  a bit exhausting/confusing and hard to keep up with everything.

Unsure about the conclusion/ending… and how reliable the author really is

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

fairylightreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

As someone whose halls flat walls were made of one long crawlspace I'm very glad I didn't read it until 6 years after I moved out of halls

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Self harm

Minor: Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

jesssmither's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

I decided to read this as I enjoy the interview format when I'm in a bit of a reading rut, Daisy Jones & the Six kickstarted a lot of reading for me last year. This was an easy to read story and I liked the premise. It wasn't bad by any means I just felt the characters were a bit caricature-y and all of the women in the story except the shallow character were 'troubled women' who's actions were often motivated by men or were victims of men. I know this is a reality for many women but it was not explored in any sort of nuanced way. I don't usually read books written by men and felt I was very aware of this fact. I liked hearing from Evelyn the 'author' during the progression of the book but the ending felt abrupt and the insertion of Joseph Knox as a character was unwelcome.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment