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I wanted to like this book. But it's AWFUL.
To be honest, I haven't finished this book yet and I'm not sure if I will. I am really interested in the subject and really wanted to like the book, but I really couldn't get into reading this. I was expecting more of a Truman Capote In Cold Blood style dissection of the crimes and the lives of the killers. The first several chapters repetitively chanted rhetoric about the importance of treating street kids like people who deserved to be saved - I don' t disagree there. But I didn't pick this book up to be convinced that homeless kids are an issue. I wanted to delve into the minds and lives of three young people that the world abused and abandoned. If I manage to keep pushing and find that it gets better, I'll write an update. But for now, all I can say is that I hate this journalists emotionally vacant story about her experience writing about the case and passionless statements about the country's homeless youth.
August 2019 · Kindle Store · verified purchase