I thought this book was absolutely brilliant. The organization took me a little while to get used to because the story didn't run from start to finish. It skipped around as we were given little flashbacks/glimpses into his past as well as sections with quotes from books and testimonies from the case. Once I got used to it, I absolutely loved it. There were some bits that were repetitive (which normally I despise in a book) but this time I enjoyed it because we were given more information each time. It was like...each time John Wade thought about something, he remembered a bit more even though his brain had tried so hard to block it out.

The storyline itself was violent and thrilling. I found the entire book to be very interesting because you followed the already mentally unstable John Wade as his mind really started to unravel after a major loss on top of everything he saw/did in Vietnam.

I really liked the ending, especially with the authors notes. The fact that the case was never really solved added to the mystery.

Favorite lines:
“To his surprise Kathy kept loving him, she didn’t stop, and over the course of the spring semester they made plans to be married and have children and someday live in a big old house in Minneapolis.”

"Everything blended with everything else, trees and brush and sky, and already he was on the edge of lost."

"Despite everything, his mood was curiously festive, his morale high, and it occurred to him that happiness itself was a subject to the laws of relativity."

"...but this is a love story. There is no tidiness. Blame it on the human heart."