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This felt like quite an ‘old school‘ true crime book from before ppl had had conversations about how we frame murderers and what is owed to victims and their families. I did think it was well written in a lot of ways, but it also felt like the kind of book that played into a lot of the bad aspects of what true crime books are like. Overall medium.

#scarathlon2022 @Clwojick +16

For #scarathlondailyprompts today I‘m reading some true crime - this one isn‘t a crime I knew much about before so it‘s very interesting.

#scarathlon2022 #teamslaughter @Clwojick +6

The case, story, events in and of themselves are very interesting. The book details the investigation and what a terrible human the killer is in a compelling way. But I feel it was “too little too late” for the attention the book gave to the victim and her family. Pictured here is Tara Grant who deserved better.

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs

So - It took until this far in the book to have a insight of who Tara Grant was from a perspective other than her awful (murderer) husband‘s. For the first 75% of the book we have only his tainted opinion that she was inattentive, cold, a workaholic, an absent mother, a b-word. Still tragic even if she were all those things, but it does her a disservice to wait this long to briefly add the perspective of who she was from her family and friends.

#AnywayYouReadathon

I have a busy weekend but the plan is to focus on audiobooks while cleaning, crafting & wrapping. Blood in the Snow is in progress but I still have about 10 hours 😬 and it hasn‘t really been grabbing me so I either need to commit or bail, A Christmas Carol will make a good background for festive chores & I‘m really looking forward to Snowdrift so that will keep me from scrolling my life away in my down time.
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