Beverly H. (GainesvilleGirl) - reviewed on 3/11/2017 + 215 more book reviews

All of the reviews for this book have praised the writer's ability to draw a picture of the lives of the victim's family, as well as the lives of the murderer's family, and his own dark and awful past. I can only say that I too found this to be an intense and riveting read. There were times when I had to put it down just to clear my head a bit. The monstrous Michael Green was so obviously guilty right from the start that telling his name here is not at all a "spoiler." Everyone even remotely connected to the case, including the police of course, knew from the start that he was guilty. And yet it took years to bring him to trial for a conviction. He was a huge brute of a young man, with an addiction to steroids that in part, drove him to rape, sodomize, and beat to death with his fists, a helpless 12 year old girl who was the sunshine of her family's life. Several people, neighbors, saw him in the area of Brenda's home that day, one even saw him up the road from the young girl on her pathway home from school. Each one of these people were suspicious of him. He was strange looking, and was behaving oddly. He was out of place there. Yet no one warned her, mentioned him to her, or offered her a ride home. Why? One person replied "she was new in the neighborhood and I had barely spoken to her before." So WHAT!! This little girl's life could have been spared by a simple word or two from a caring person. This was so frustrating to the reader! What the heck is wrong with people? It's horrendous even to think about, but still you won't be able to stop reading to the very end when the epilogue gives you an update on the families of the victim and the killer. There is also a telling of what the murderer's life in prison, and at times in mental hospitals, is like. It's good to know what's become of him.

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