I’m giving this book a 5 star rating mainly because it lays out information quite easily, in a straight forward way and everyone should know what happened. Honestly, I’m fairly well read, college educated, somewhat up on current events (though I hate watching the news) and I’m amazed I had not heard about this until this past week. I’m 56 years old and this event has somehow escaped my education. It isn’t written the same way a story is normally written (IMO) and maybe, because I usually don’t read non-fiction, it is more blunt and fact giving. If most books I read are like a Lifetime Movie, this is more like something from the ID Channel. The book mainly focuses on one family, but until you get to the Acknowledgments, you really don’t know how encompassing the crimes really were.

If this ever makes it to the big screen, my hope is that the movie is portrayed accurately since I know many people won’t read the book. But they should.