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A review by therealahall
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olsen
3.0
First off, let me state that I did really enjoy the story that was being presented and told in this book. I thought the story was compelling and thoroughly enjoyed learning about what had transpired in the early 1900's and found that the more I got into the book, the harder it was to put down.
That being said, there are some weird issues that almost caused me to stop reading it early on in the book. While the story is being setup, at the end of quite a few chapters, there are these really weird interjections about someone from a different time period that doesn't quite fit the flow of the story. I felt that it could have been better suited in their own chapters in the epilogue / appendix section of the book rather than sprinkled in with the rest of the text. I felt it broke the flow of the read from chapter to chapter, but that's just my opinion. While it mostly happened in the first third of the book, it did occur occasionally towards the end.
That being said, the book is worth the read if you can get over the initial 100 pages or so.
That being said, there are some weird issues that almost caused me to stop reading it early on in the book. While the story is being setup, at the end of quite a few chapters, there are these really weird interjections about someone from a different time period that doesn't quite fit the flow of the story. I felt that it could have been better suited in their own chapters in the epilogue / appendix section of the book rather than sprinkled in with the rest of the text. I felt it broke the flow of the read from chapter to chapter, but that's just my opinion. While it mostly happened in the first third of the book, it did occur occasionally towards the end.
That being said, the book is worth the read if you can get over the initial 100 pages or so.