This is a shocking and very disturbing book. It is very graphic and not for the faint of heart. It is, however, a sad commentary on our society and how no one seems to feel that people are fully responsible for their own actions and choices.

Bobby Kent was a bully - a steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs...and was never seen alive again. The tormentor had become the victim in a bizarre and brutal act of vengeance carried out with rughless efficiency and cold-blooded premeditation by seven of his high school acquaintances - including his lifelong best friend - and instigated by one overweight, underloved teenager who believed her life would be perfect...if only Bobby Kent were dead.

A riveting, but disturbing account of the pre-meditated murder of Bobby Kent by his closest friends. It's hard to wrap your mind around the fact that this is a true story. Very well-written, but if you're easily disturbed you might want to skip it.

Wow, this book is a page turner. While your reading this you start thinking....this can't be true,but it is. Very disturbing and shocking. Great read ..page turner.I do recommend this book for people who have teenagers.

I had this read in three evenings... I couldn't seem to put it down. I'm a Mom, and I'm glad I read it...any parent should. I don't want to give anything away, but here's some of the reveiws;



"A COMPELLING ACCOUNT THAT READS LIKE FICTION...MUST READING FOR ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT JUSTICE...[AND]FOR ANY PARENT WHO CARES ABOUT CHILDREN AND WHAT DANGERS LURK IN OUR MALLS AND STREETS AND SCHOOLS." --Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"A DEEPLY DISTURBINB BOOK, AN INDICTMENT OF SUBRUBAN VALUES AND OF AN AIMLESS, VIOLENT MIDDLE-CLASS YOUTH CULTURE THAT IS DEPRAVED BECAUSE IT IS MORALLY--NOT ECONOMICALLY--DEPRIVED." --The New York Times Book Reveiw

Chilling true crime story of aimless teens who turn on and murder one of their own.

Sobering...scary.

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i thought it was a bit boring. i mean I'm not a gruesome person but everyone was all like eww so graphic... it really wasn't. even the pictures that were supposed to be icky really weren't. i did enjoy the book on the whole. it made me laugh and reinforce why i don't like drugs and people on drugs. my favorite part however was like the last line....

"In almost every case they shrieked that the sentences were unfair. he wasn't the only one, marty puccios grandmother cried.
she's innocent, one of lisa connellys relatives said, she made a mistake thats all.
ali willis's stepfather said she was a dumb kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
They did not say this:
my child is a murderer. i am sick with shame. when i think of what my child did to another human being, i want to die myself
no one said that. not one person"

and i just really liked this part because its like the truth. and it goes to show just how they really were raised. they did it and they just tried shuffling all the blame to each other. instead of taking responsibility for what they had done. if i had been the judge i would have ruled more harshly on account of the obvious disregard for life and the fact none of them felt truly bad that they killed someone.

Good true crime, but I wonder why the lawyers didn't play up the bullying part more in the defense.

this seems to be a good book, i didnt finish it as it is just not my type of book anymore. :)

A little graphic, but interesting if you are into True Crime.

Well written story about a group of kids who murdered a friend that bullied them. Did he really deserve what they did?

This book is a lot like the film. The main difference is you get more background on the kids and more insight into the trial. The callousness of these kids is shocking. A must read.

Very interesting story.

This is a must read for anyone who thinks they know what today's teenagers are really like.

Wow, amazingly vicious stupid thoughtless kids...frightening that this is real. Be warned, there is a photo section (black and white) in this book....yeesh!

this book was kinda slow at first but once you started reading. this book was very hard to put down it just makes you want to keep reading. it only took 2 days to read it.

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