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stephsbooktalk 's review for:
Bright Young Women
by Jessica Knoll
I definitely went into this book blind. I knew it was about a serial killer but that was really about it.
I am not a True Crime consumer at all. I know the names of some of the bigger cases and the basic facts about the murderer. In this case, I did not realize this was about Ted Bundy until the very end when the author thanked a Ted Bundy survivor in her acknowledgements and I googled the name mentioned. And from there I was able to see some of the comparisons of what was done in the book to what happened in real life.
I like that the author focused the book on the victims but I really wanted this to be completely fictional. Where there is some fictionalization there were still parts seemed to be taken from real life. Once again because I didn't realize this was based off Bundy's cases, I was waiting for a big twist of some sort to happen that linked Ruth's story to Pamela's story. I wish it either was completely fictional or more non fiction and not the blur of the two.
I paired this with the audio and I was a fan of Sutton Foster after watching Younger and I thought she was a great Pamela. She made her sound so mature beyond her years during the college years.
I thought the pacing of the book was pretty well. The beginning half and the last half were addicting while the middle was necessary but just not as memorable as much as the rest of the book was.
This was a bookclub selection and we all really enjoyed it and shared similar feelings towards it.
These two quotes really stood out for me:
"But all it did was make me realize that there wasn't so big a difference between the man who'd brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street."
"Some nights I lay in bed sleepless and full of apathy, realizing that The Defendant could have gone anywhere in the country, done this to any other group of women, and the defense could likely raise reasonable doubt by pointing a finger at the Roger who already resided among them. Rogers were everywhere, reasonable-doubt scapegoats waiting in the wings for a case like this."
I am not a True Crime consumer at all. I know the names of some of the bigger cases and the basic facts about the murderer. In this case, I did not realize this was about Ted Bundy until the very end when the author thanked a Ted Bundy survivor in her acknowledgements and I googled the name mentioned. And from there I was able to see some of the comparisons of what was done in the book to what happened in real life.
I like that the author focused the book on the victims but I really wanted this to be completely fictional. Where there is some fictionalization there were still parts seemed to be taken from real life. Once again because I didn't realize this was based off Bundy's cases, I was waiting for a big twist of some sort to happen that linked Ruth's story to Pamela's story. I wish it either was completely fictional or more non fiction and not the blur of the two.
I paired this with the audio and I was a fan of Sutton Foster after watching Younger and I thought she was a great Pamela. She made her sound so mature beyond her years during the college years.
I thought the pacing of the book was pretty well. The beginning half and the last half were addicting while the middle was necessary but just not as memorable as much as the rest of the book was.
This was a bookclub selection and we all really enjoyed it and shared similar feelings towards it.
These two quotes really stood out for me:
"But all it did was make me realize that there wasn't so big a difference between the man who'd brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street."
"Some nights I lay in bed sleepless and full of apathy, realizing that The Defendant could have gone anywhere in the country, done this to any other group of women, and the defense could likely raise reasonable doubt by pointing a finger at the Roger who already resided among them. Rogers were everywhere, reasonable-doubt scapegoats waiting in the wings for a case like this."