This author and this book really irritated me. It was interesting to read about the womens case histories, the crimes they had committed that put them into prison but then the letters started. I felt the author "sucked up" big-time. now we're talking about women who murdered their children, come on, I know they had horrible childhoods, been with men who abused them,etc but..don't we all know of women who have had lives like this, they don't murder their children! I'm sorry but there is NO excuse for that! NONE! The author (who has children) came across has tolerant of why they had murdered them,
"I understand..blah,blah,blah...
I also felt the author patronized each criminal in a different manner, be-friending them to get what she needed to put this book out. There was only one woman in the whole book that I felt didn't deserve to be in prison for what happened, the author should of jumped on that case and helped her in some way, out of all of the them she was the one whom the author should of cared about the most.
Personally I think the book is rubbish and it pissed me off!
I blew through this book. I have mixed emotions. I enjoyed reading insight from the incarcerated women, and the author did provide some of her own correspondence. The author mentioned a 'project' in at leats one of the letters (blowing off Carol Bundy) and I'm not sure if that project ever came to light. I'm guessing "Laney" is Aileen Wuornos.
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