scylla87's review against another edition
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
3.0
jeenwheetson's review against another edition
2.0
Truly terrible storytelling. Many pieces of evidence were retold almost verbatim dozens of times, but critical pieces were glossed over. And the ending is in the title. It read like a very shallowly investigated 400 page summary on a local news website, but with a goofy amount of bias thrown in. Even so, I blazed through it in 4 days, which speaks to the addictive power of the true crime genre.
zombiecupcake29's review
4.0
As an avid true crime reader and listener I was excited to find a book about a case I had never really heard of before. I came across the book in my libraries recently added and immediately checked it out because it peeked my interest. I felt like the author being so close to the case made the details provided to be very credible instead of someone that just heard about the case and researched it. I felt connected to the family and Nancy as I read the horrible tale of what happened to the young mother in July of 2008. The only reason this was not a 5 star read for me was because a lot of it felt very redundant. I understand that the author wanted to include every detail of each trial that took place but at times it became a bit mi h and I ended up putting the book down for a bit instead of continuing on and finishing it in a quicker time period because of this. All in all a very well put together inside look at a case of love gone wrong.
spidergirl502's review against another edition
1.0
I went into this book expecting true crime, but it reads more like memoir. It focuses mostly on emotion, rumor and hearsay, and less on facts. I didn't dislike it, but definitely not my cup of tea.
susangeo's review against another edition
4.0
Story was interesting but I didn't care for the amount of repeated detail throughout the book.
adrianakincaid's review against another edition
2.0
I know this is a true story and I have all the empathy for Nancy Cooper’s family and friends but to write a book about this case was a little too much. It was very repetitive, legit repeating the same situations over and over again no less than five times.
Save yourself the time and just read a news article about it
Save yourself the time and just read a news article about it
meeka55's review against another edition
3.0
A little wordy to me. A lot of repeating the same thing over and over but a good detail of what happened. Told in a story line setting.