Although the whole is not quite as great as the sum of its parts, this was a total page-turner about family secrets inspired by Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate. (I can highly recommend the movie Badlands, if you have never seen it.)
Although the whole is not quite as great as the sum of its parts, this was a total page-turner about family secrets inspired by Charles Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate. (I can highly recommend the movie Badlands, if you have never seen it.)
Started off very slow, but picked up around 30% of the way through. Twists and turns, & several plot threads that eventually dovetail together nicely. Good read. 4🌟
I was impressed by how believable this book was in its' twists. Even by the standards of “twist“ fiction it was well handled, with an ending that while up to a point cliched was led to with sufficient originality that I was wondering who was who up until that point, and the overall path that led to it was very effective; I found it to be quite entertaining, and the identify of the big bad truly was well kept a secret.