pickThis is not your typical true crime novel…it was pretty much three different stories rolled into one. I realize this is why some people didn‘t like it, but it‘s actually why I did enjoy it!
⭐️: 3.5/5
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia | 
pickThis is not your typical true crime novel…it was pretty much three different stories rolled into one. I realize this is why some people didn‘t like it, but it‘s actually why I did enjoy it!
⭐️: 3.5/5
I am still reading books that I got for free from bookcon 2019
so-soIf you go into this expecting a true crime novel, you'll be disappointed. It's part true crime, part memoir, and part history of the area.
While I enjoyed this book, I felt that the author never brings everything together in a way to justify all the different side stories presented.
pickTrue crime with an author‘s memoir mixed in. I really enjoy nonfiction with this sort of genre mash-up (think: The Orchid Thief; The Lady from the Black Lagoon; Why Fish Don‘t Exist). I tried this a couple times in print and didn‘t get into the flow but liked enough to try again. Ultimately, finished (devoured!!) on #audiobook read by the author.
so-soThis one has been on my list for a while, and maybe it was just the wrong time for it? I liked all of the stories she was telling here, and I saw how they informed each other BUT it never really gelled for me as a single narrative. Also, the middle section about the trial just really dragged the Ebone thing down for me.
panAlways love a well written crime story, this was not that. The author inserted herself firmly in the storytelling and became a character herself consuming half the story. A self-indulgent departure at that! The other half of the story about the murder and the trail were a hot mess in the telling. By the last chapters, that I had strained so hard to arrive to, I was skimming and wincing. Hours lost in the reading with zero reward..
I haven‘t read a true crime in a while and this one is not letting me down.
Me: “Maybe if I download an audiobook it‘ll force me to go outside and take a walk.”
Also me: “Or I could just listen to it while doing this.”
pickNonfiction two stories, one about two murders in a rural town that once had a hippy gathering in it and one about the author and her time in the rural area.
This has been in my NetGalley stack forever, and this is the second or third time I‘ve checked it out of the library 😂.. I‘m going to read it this time!
panA bit of a muddle of true crime and memoir that just didn‘t work for me. There was very little suspense and even less logic to the progression of the narrative, or maybe I just missed it. Either way, wish I‘d missed this one...
