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A review by gillianalice
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
dark
informative
slow-paced
DNF (sort of) at around 60%. I'm about to skim the last 40% because I'm reading this for a book club I help run at work.
Here's the thing. I don't like true crime when it's about acts of violence like this. I can do a heist story (The Feather Thief was interesting), but I don't want to read about the Golden State Killer's reign of terror. And I genuinely don't understand people like this author who make these gruesome cases their life's work. It just doesn't sit right with me.
Personal ick aside, I also didn't find this to be particularly well written. I understand that McNamara died before it was finished, and that the choppiness can probably be explained by her family and editor piecing together her notes, but I kept getting lost in the timeline.
Overall, if you like true crime, you might like this. It's very much not for me though, and that's why I'm not giving it a rating.
Here's the thing. I don't like true crime when it's about acts of violence like this. I can do a heist story (The Feather Thief was interesting), but I don't want to read about the Golden State Killer's reign of terror. And I genuinely don't understand people like this author who make these gruesome cases their life's work. It just doesn't sit right with me.
Personal ick aside, I also didn't find this to be particularly well written. I understand that McNamara died before it was finished, and that the choppiness can probably be explained by her family and editor piecing together her notes, but I kept getting lost in the timeline.
Overall, if you like true crime, you might like this. It's very much not for me though, and that's why I'm not giving it a rating.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape and Murder